You are welcome to this special part of our Gospel Points on faith. I will use about 10 minutes of your time to show you briefly what it takes to live a life a of faith. I hope it will bless you immensely as I intend to make it as practical as possible. There are 2 things I will expose here. They are meant to increase your awareness of the faith life and what it takes to live it. Let’s begin.
1. It takes courage.
I will want you to notice what God told Joshua as he was about to embark on his own journeys of faith. See it from Josh 1:7 “Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go.” For you to live by faith, you need to be very courageous. Faith is not for the weakling! It is for the strong and courageous. I would say that the first block on the foundation of faith is courage. Courage gives you extreme boldness to face any opposition to your journey of faith; it gives you strong carefulness to obey God’s law and makes you successful wherever you go! Cowardice and panic are the opposite of courage. Men of great faith are men of brave courage. So to live a life of faith you must be very brave in all you dare to do for God. I will want you to notice that God took special time to instruct Joshua ever before he took his first faith steps to be very courageous! Notice this also in the following scriptures: Josh 1:9 “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go." Here it is God’s commandment to be courageous. I want to round up this point by stating that Bro. Joshua actually turned out to be strong and courageous and eventually became a preacher of courage. See this in Josh 10:25 “Joshua said to them, "Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Be strong and courageous. This is what the Lord will do to all the enemies you are going to fight." This is Joshua defeating the five kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish and Eglon by faith and courage. You may read the full story in Joshua chapter 10. When your faith mixes with courage, you will be able to defeat even kings! I will expect to see you a man of faith and a preacher of courage. That is the first thing it takes to live a life of faith. Let’s see the second.
2. It takes knowledge. I will not hesitate to discuss this. I love it and I know you will too. See 2 Peter 1:5-6 “…make every effort to add to your faith… knowledge” From that passage, God wants us to add 7 things to our faith and the second among them is knowledge. The second thing it takes to live a life of faith is knowledge. Let me appreciate the passage in Hos 4:6 “my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests” I once have described knowledge as Know-to-the-edge – that is to say it requires total or extreme knowing, to the edge.
Follow me on the next post for details on the faith life! I hope this post has blessed your life today.
