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It is important to spend time getting to know the will of God about a matter before we try and act on our belief. I can believe that when I go down to the car yard to buy a brand new car God will provide the money while I am on the way there, and I get all the way there with nothing happening, and then think that God has failed me. But I did not spend enough time with God to find out whether He wanted me to have a new car.whats the context of this ?
the reason i ask is because believe is also a verb .. and action i.e. because i believe a thing i ACT on it and there for receive the promised result .
so many people treat the words of JEsus and the gospel of Jesus like a cake recipe that you read and then sit and wait for the cake because they say they believe the recipe .
yet the very recipe they read has a section called METHOD: this part gives instructions on what we are to do . but being only hearers of the recipe they do not DO the recipe -
and are self deceived into thinking the cake will fall into their lap - it wont .
@Oscarr .. ya like that analogy
I remember when I was three years into my university degree, I got down to the last $100 in my bank account. I told God that if He wanted me to finish the degree He would have to provide for me, otherwise I would have to go and look for a job to earn a living. Three days later I got a phone call from the local post office (I used to work for the Post Office before I started university), offering me a part-time job. God did not miraculously give me a handout. He opened up an opportunity to earn a part-time wage to meet my daily needs. This showed me that God wanted me to finish my degree. I did not tell God how and when to provide for me. I did not "believe for it" in any way. I just trusted God through the Scripture: "Everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, make your requests to God and the peace of God that passes all understanding will keep your hearts and minds in Christ". I put the whole thing in His hands to do what He saw best - get a job and continue part-time at university, or be provided in some other way to enable me to finish my degree. After the part time job at the post office ended, I was able to gain a diploma in Typewriting teaching, and then got a part-time job teaching typing to adult students at a Secretarial college.
I could have used "positive confession", "believing for it" to be provided with a motor vehicle to get around instead of my bicycle, a flat of my own instead of having to board, extra money to dine out at restaurants and for my other hobbies; but nothing would have happened, because God was going to provide just for what I needed to live, travel to university and back, and pay for my tuition and text books.
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