FAITH AND CORRESPONDING ACTION !

FAITH AND CORRESPONDING ACION ! James said you must have corresponding action. Faith without corresponding action is dead. Rahab was a harlot, not a righteous person. But she believes that if she would be of help to the spies who came, they would spare her. She could have been negative and said, "If I protect them, I may be one of those killed in the war." But you can see her faith in her actions. She befriended the spies and help them to escape. Even as an unrighteous person, she had faith that she and her household would be saved alive. "For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. But remember, keep this all in context. When people misunderstand corresponding action, they do crazy things. Some say, "The answer (or the money I need) will come by Thursday evening at 4 o'clock." Because they have confessed that it's going to happen Thursday evening at 4 o'clock, they go ahead and send the check on Tuesday. Don't set times for the manifestation. Don't try to put God in a box. Now, there are some things that confession will not change. Whether you believe it or whether you don't believe it, Jesus is coming back. And the righteous redeemed are told to look for His coming. You see and hear all the sign that the Bible talks about ! Your confession is not going to change that. Then on the other hand it takes time to bring about some things that can be changed. But when you begin to set times, you usually get in trouble. It is all right to have that as a goal. But if you are saying that it is going to happen on a certain day, when that they passes, then your faith usually goes with it. That's not God's method at all. Let me show you the balance to this. Let's go to Mark, the fourth chapter. This whole chapter is important to what I'm talking about. But we will begin with verse 26 notice in this chapter is has already been established by Jesus that the soil is the heart of me, and the seed is the Word of God. "And he (Jesus) said, so is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth for fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear." (Mark 4:26-28). This is a revelation of how the kingdom works within you the redeemed one. The kingdom of God is as if a man should cast the to the ground. You are the one who sows the seed (The Word) in this kingdom inside you. Now remember, the soil is the heart --- the human spirit. He said the kingdom works this way --- you sow the seed into the ground. The Confession of God's Word sows the seed. It is important to mix faith with The Word of God. Thousands of God's people missed the promised land, died in the wilderness and never obtain what God intended for them to attain. It was the will of God for them to enter in. It was there land. God had already given it to them. When referring to them, the apostle Paul said: "For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. (Hebrews 4:2). The children of Israel of old heard what God said, but they wouldn't mix any faith with what they heard. Many people today have heard what God said, but it's hard to get them to mix faith with what God said, or to get them to speak in agreement with Him. They say, "But I can see it's not that way." In other words, many people need to see something first before they will believe ! I know it's not that way in the natural, but God said it, so you say it. You are calling things that are not yet manifested. The divine energy force of God is in that Word. And it will get inside of you as you speak it. It The Word is the power source. It is the seed. It is the faith of God that causes you and me to be able to attain to that promise.