THE FAITH OF GOD OR PRESUMPTION !

THE FAITH OF GOD OR PRESUMPTION ! You must draw the line somewhere between faith and presumption. You must use common sense with faith. Don't throw away all common sense and all good business practices just because you get turned on to faith. The man came to a similar well there was teaching along these lines. He said, "several of us came over here because we heard you are a farmer, and you're a man of faith. We want to know if you use fertilizer on your farm ? He replied, "Yes. Do you use gas in your car ?" Well, no question is stupid, if you don't know the answer, Will Rogers once said, "everybody is ignorant -- just about different things." I'm not making fun of that man; I'm just pointing out the way people think. They want to please God, but sometimes they have more zeal than knowledge. You don't throw away all good business sense our common sense just because you get turned on to faith. Use your faith and good business practices. Look at (Hebrews 11:1). "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for , the evidence of things not seen." No SUBSTITUTES: when you substitute faith good business practices, you are headed for trouble. Right on the other hand, don't substitute good business practice for faith. Don't ever settle for good business practice along. Every day, people go bankrupt operating good business sense with no faith. They talk negative, therefore they believe negative. They quote the 6 o'clock news. They are filled with negative things even as I speak, people are so full of fear of Corona virus and the variance virus; or whether they should take a shot or not. You must mix faith with what you do. Exercise your faith in what you are doing. (Psalms 1:3). A certain man call that had been calling regularly for some time. He said, "Now Brother Lewis, I'm Doing What the Words said. I'm confessing God's word over my finances. Why isn't it working ?" Well, the very fact that he had to ask, "why isn't it working ?" Proved that he didn't believe that it was working. He was not in faith. He was looking at circumstances. Faith would have meant holding fast to his confession knowing that it was working. Many people are looking at the circumstances, that means there walking by site not by faith. The man said, I have done everything the Words says to do. What do I do now ?" I said, "just keep doing it ! The ball game isn't over. Just keep doing it. It doesn't happen overnight. It takes time to change some thing. Many people don't want to change ! You didn't get that way overnight, and you can't change it overnight. You confess negative things so many years before, and now your reaping what you have said ! Well, He called back in about a month, said, "it isn't working." Finally, I told you, "the problem is about 1 inch below your nose. Your mouth. God says it is working. You say it isn't."