FAITH CORRESPONDING ACTION !

FAITH CORRESPONDING ACTION ! Many trying to operate on a higher level of faith that they have not developed. They try to believe God to cure cancer when they haven't developed their faith to get rid of a headache. Many God needlessly when medical science could have treated them and kept them alive to live a full life. It is not a good testimony when someone says they believe God and died. No. They tried to believe God beyond where they were developed, and died. You must use some common sense with the application of the God kind of faith and confession. When you are not developed to the level of the God kind of faith needed, do whatever is necessary to get the situation under control --- especially when it is a life or death situation. Then get in the Word and develop your faith in God's provisions. (Hebrews 11:6) says, . . . "Without faith it is impossible to please him (God). . ." When people get turned on to faith in God, they want to please God. They hear sermons on faith and corresponding actions, and they certainly don't want to displease God. So they say, "If I really believe that God has supplied my need, then I should have full corresponding action." So they write checks, knowing there is not sufficient money in the bank to cover the checks. But that is not corresponding action. That is foolishness. They don't mean to be foolish. So, they followed the call thoughts of a unrenewed mind. They really want to please God. But because they have not understood corresponding action, they miss it. There is a balance in every scripture. The key to balance is keeping the truth of the Scripture in context of all that is being said about that particular situation. James is not talking about a need that you have prayed about. He is not talking about a note on your house, or the rent payment when he says, "Faith without corresponding action is dead." He is talking about an individual who came saying, "I don't have any food or clothes, can you help me ?" James said faith without action to meet that man's or woman's need would be dead faith. In other words, you wouldn't have held that man or woman at all if you said, "Go, brother or sister, and be warmed and be fed. I have faith that you will be fed. I have faith that your needs will be supplied. God bless you, my brother or sister." James said faith without some action to give that person some clothing, or food to help him or her in their need, that faith is dead. That man a woman didn't want faith, he or she wanted food. He or she needed corresponding actions to fill that need. They didn't need someone to say, "I believe," he or she needed someone to say, "I will help by giving." James goes further by saying, "Yes, a man may say, thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works."(James 2:18).