THE GOD KIND OF FAITH IN ACTION (PART 1) !

THE GOD KIND OF FAITH IN ACTION (PART 1). Great miracles are Wrought by those who act upon God's Word. In both the Old and New Testaments we see examples of how God's people, by putting their faith into action, were able to accomplish mighty deeds. Great miracles were work by humble man who acted upon God's word in separately believing the God kind of faith. THE GOD KIND OF FAITH IN ACTION IN THE OLD TESTAMENT (Joshua 6:2 through 20) "And the Lord said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valor. And you shall come to pass the city, all you men of war, and go around about the city once. Thus shall the dual six day. And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams horns: and the seventh day you shall come past the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets. And it shall come to pass, that when they make a loud blast with the Rams home, and when you hear the sound of the trumpets, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him. . . And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout: for the Lord hath given you the city. . . So the people shouted when the priest blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city." In verse two we read that God told Joshua He had given the city of Jericho "into thine hand." This didn't mean, however, that Joshua and the children of Israel could sit back and relax and wait on God to do it why the city automatically became theirs. They had to do something. God gave them explicit instructions how to go about possessing the land He already had given them, but they had to believe that Word and act upon it. There acting upon the Word was there faith in action. You and I are no different, I hear people all the time saying they need a Word from God. And when they get a Word then they failed to act upon that Word. It is partly because of unbelief or ignorance. The children of Israel were to march around the walls of the city once a day for six days. On the seventh day, they were to march around the city seven times. Then, when the musical instruments sounded, they were to shout. Notice that they shouted while the wall were still up ! Anybody can shout when the walls are down--- anyone can shout when things are going well--- it doesn't take any faith to do that. But they acted on their faith. They "shouted with a great shout," and the walls fell down ! Too many people are sitting back waiting for something to come to them. I hear preachers say that God is about to do something, No God has already done something; you need to do your part. They are more or less inert, with a passive faith instead of an active God kind of faith, waiting for something to happen. I meet a lot of people like this, a lot of young men and women hanging on the cones or at the stoplights with cardboard signs in their hands, many of whom have children and they are just waiting for something to turn up. But the only thing that turns up was more poverty. Many of them can only believe in what they see, a little spare change here and there. No doubt that many of them know what the Word says but they can't not act upon, because of the nature of their father Satan. Yes Satan knows the Word and he too cannot partake in it, because the truth does not abide in him. We can't just sit at home and expect something to come to us. But if we pray, believe, and then act, something will happen.