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Larry Craddick, Online House Church

CAN YOU SEE YOUR FAITH COMING?

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CAN YOU SEE YOUR FAITH COMING?
A lot of us, myself included, feel that we need feelings, some say
affirmation or warmth, happiness to have FAITH in our walk with
God. But feelings and confidence are the by product of our Faith.
Let me explain…
I believe the Lord wants us to see what happens when we take the
Bible seriously.
A pastor friend of mine, Larry Kreider says it this way…
“Imagine a train running down a track. We could say that the
engine that pulls the train is the Word of God, the next car is our
faith, and the last car, the caboose, is our feelings. When we place
our faith in the Word of God, our feelings will always follow, just like
the caboose does. Let’s purpose in our hearts to live by the truth,
the Word of God.”
In Hebrews 4:12 in the The Passion Translation it tells us this..
“For we have the living Word of God, (the Bible) which is full
of energy, like a two-mouthed sword. (In some translations, a
two edged sword) It will even penetrate to the very core of our
being where soul and spirit, bone and marrow meet! It
interprets and reveals the true thoughts and secret motives of
our hearts.”
Hebrews 4:12 TPT
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I would claim that both the Bible and The Holy Spirit are what give
us discernment.
When we let our feelings rule our beliefs we miss out on the truth
written in the Word of God.
In John 10:10 Jesus says this…
“A thief has only one thing in mind—he wants to steal,
slaughter, and destroy. But I have come to give you everything
in abundance, more than you expect —life in its fullness until
you overflow!”
John 10:10 TPT
Has d-evil lied to you? Told you that your not worth of God’s love
and His forgiveness? This Usually comes at us after we sin.
Are you unsure in the area of forgiveness?
If your like most of us, you sin, then confess it, and then later you
commit the same sin again; then you feel guilty and the process
starts all over again. Making us feel unworthy of love and feeling
down about ourselves, even like a failure. That’s the way d–evil
works agains us
So how do you get off this merry-go-round?
First let me say that the fact that you feel guilty is a positive sign. It
verifies that you are a believer in Jesus Christ. For if you were not
a believer, why would you care about your sins in the first place.
Because the Truth of the Bible rings true in your feelings of guilt.
There needs to be a change.
Romans 8:1 says:
Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in
Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:1NASB
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When you believed the gospel of your salvation your sins were
forgiven both past, present, and future.
So if that is true, why do we have to confess them? Does that
mean if I die with unconfessed sin that I will lose my
salvation? Absolutely not! We are eternally secure in Christ
(Romans 8:38-39).
“So now I live with the confidence that there is nothing in the
universe with the power to separate us from God’s love. I’m
convinced that his love will triumph over death, life’s troubles,
fallen angels, or dark rulers in the heavens. There is nothing
in our present or future circumstances that can weaken his
love. There is no power above us or beneath us—no power
that could ever be found in the universe that can distance us
from God’s passionate love, which is lavished upon us
through our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One!”
Romans 8:38-39 TPT
Thats the reason 1 John 1:9 tells us to confess our sins; it’s
because of fellowship and not our salvation.
The Apostle John tell us this in 1 John 1:5-9..“This is the
message we heard from Jesus and now declare to you: God is
light, and there is no darkness in him at all. So we are lying if
we say we have fellowship with God but go on living in
spiritual darkness; we are not practicing the truth. But if we
are living in the light, as God is in the light, then we have
fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus, his Son,
cleanses us from all sin. If we claim we have no sin, we are
only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth. But if we
confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive
us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.”
1 John 1:5-9 NLT
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Notice that this is about having fellowship. Verse 6 says that if we
claim to have fellowship with God and yet walk in darkness
(commit sin), we are not practicing the truth. Then in verse 7 it says
however if we walk in the light as God Himself is in the Light, we
then have fellowship.
A prerequisite for fellowship with God therefore is our daily
confession of any known sin (1 John 1:9). Let’s look at that
again..
“But if we freely admit our sins when his light uncovers them,
he will be faithful to forgive us every time. God is just to
forgive us our sins because of Christ, and he will continue to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
1 John 1:9 TPT
It’s the Holy Spirit who now works our conscience to reveal our
sins.
Actually we should confess our sins the moment we commit one,
because we do not want sin to take control over us (Romans 6:12;
Galatians 5:17).
“Do not let sin control the way you live; do not give in to sinful
desires.”
Romans 6:12 NLT
“The sinful nature wants to do evil, which is just the opposite
of what the Spirit wants. And the Spirit gives us desires that
are the opposite of what the sinful nature desires. These two
forces are constantly fighting each other, so you are not free
to carry out your good intentions.”
Galatians 5:17 NLT
But to truly grow spiritually, we must read and meditate of the Word
of God every day. We need to immerse ourselves, in worship,
listening to music, reading, listening and in study of the Bible, even
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hanging out with believers that are like minded; going to church
together.
In this way, our minds become renewed.
To meditate simply means to “roll something around over and over
again in our minds.”
When I understood this, after I gave my life to Christ, I was in a
Bible Study Group (Navigator’s 2/7) we would take two verses on
small cards with us all week, then pull out the card to memorize
and think about at different times throughout the day each week,
then come together and quote them to each other by memory.
Partnering and accountability was the commitment. I
memorized many verses this way. As we fill our minds with the
Word of God and fellowship, we will start to think like God thinks.
As far as our sins go. God is always ready to hear our
confessions, and whatever other cares we might have in our
prayers.
Hebrews 4:16 says:
Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of
grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in
time of need. Hebrews 4:16 NASB
Whenever we commit a sin, we should always confess it
immediately for the purpose of having our fellowship restored to
God.
Over and over again as necessary.
By the way committing a sin, this has nothing to do with our
salvation, we are sinful by nature, that was settled when we
believed the gospel it’s known as the(Good News). Jesus died on
the Cross to pay the penalty for our sins. God wants us to
know His Love and His Will for us.
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Paul wrote it this way in 1 Corinthians 15:1-4…
“Let me now remind you, dear brothers and sisters, of the
Good News I preached to you before. You welcomed it then,
and you still stand firm in it. It is this Good News that saves
you if you continue to believe the message I told you—unless,
of course, you believed something that was never true in the
first place. I passed on to you what was most important and
what had also been passed on to me. Christ died for our sins,
just as the Scriptures said. He was buried, and he was raised
from the dead on the third day, just as the Scriptures said.”
1 Corinthians 15:1-4 NLT
God desires that we have an ongoing relationship of unbroken
fellowship. 1 John 1:9 is an exhortation to continuous fellowship
with Him. God desires that we have an ongoing relationship of
unbroken fellowship with Him. God is always ready to forgive us of
our sins, whenever we confess them.
Having faith in the truth of God’s Word(s) comes way ahead of our
feelings. It comes first. As we meditated on it, live it out daily, pray
and confess our sins; then we live our lives better, in the way God
has designed us to live!
Victoriously and in love for one another and as a light in the world
Like Christ intended.
Remember, His will and His Word are one. The Word – truth is the
engine, as we believe it and place it in our lives is Faith – the first
car. Then comes feeling – the caboose. They are the map for us to
understand and guide us in our lives.

Gene Lucas, Online House Church, Teaching

Walk by Faith

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Romans 12:3 (NKJV)
3 For I say, through the grace given to me,
to everyone who is among you,
not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think,
but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.

Hebrews 10:23(NKJV)
Let us hold fast the confession
of our hope without wavering,
for He who promised is faithful.

Romans 4:17 (NKJV)
(as it is written, “I have made you a father
of many nations”)
in the presence of Him whom he believed—
God, who gives life to the dead
and calls those things which
do not exist as though they did;

Mark 11:22-24 (NKJV)
22 So Jesus answered and said to them,
“Have faith in God.
23 For assuredly, I say to you,
whoever says to this mountain,
‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’
and does not doubt in his heart,
but believes that those things he says will be done,
he will have whatever he says.
24 Therefore I say to you,
whatever things you ask when you pray,
believe that you receive them,
and you will have them.

Romans 4:20-21 (NKJV)
20 He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, 21 and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.

 

James 2:14-26 (NKJV)

New King James Version
Faith Without Works Is Dead
14 What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? 17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

18 But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without [a]your works, and I will show you my faith by [b]my works. 19 You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble! 20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is [c]dead? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? 22 Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made [d]perfect? 23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was [e]accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called the friend of God. 24 You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.

25 Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way?

26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

Hebrews 10:19-33 (NKJV)
New King James Version
Hold Fast Your Confession
19 Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, 21 and having a High Priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, 25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

The Just Live by Faith
26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. 28 Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” [b]says the Lord. And again, “The Lord will judge His people.” 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

32 But recall the former days in which, after you were [c]illuminated, you endured a great struggle with sufferings: 33 partly while you were made a spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and partly while you became companions of those who were so treated;

Hebrews 12: (NKJV)
1 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded
by so great a cloud of witnesses,
let us lay aside every weight,
and the sin which so easily ensnares us,
and let us run with endurance
the race that is set before us,
2 looking unto Jesus,
the author and finisher of our faith,
who for the joy that was set before Him
endured the cross, despising the shame,
and has sat down at the right hand
of the throne of God.
3 For consider Him who endured
such hostility from sinners against Himself,
lest you become weary
and discouraged in your souls.

1 Peter 2:9 (NKJV)
But you are a chosen generation,
a royal priesthood, a holy nation,
His own special people,
that you may proclaim the praises
of Him who called
you out of darkness
into His marvelous light;

Jeremiah 29
11 For I know the thoughts
that I think toward you, says the Lord,
thoughts of peace and not of evil,
to give you a future and a hope.
12 Then you will call upon Me
and go and pray to Me,
and I will listen to you.
13 And you will

Hebrews 11:6 (PTP)
And without faith living within us
it would be impossible to please God.
For we come to God in faith
knowing that he is real
and that he rewards the faith
of those who give all
their passion and
strength into seeking him.
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Hebrews 6:1
The Passion Translation
Moving On to Deeper Truth
6 Now is the time for us to progress beyond the basic message of Christ and advance into perfection. The foundation has already been laid for us to build upon: turning away from our dead works to embrace faith in God,

Luke 18:8 (NKJV)
I tell you that He will avenge them speedily.
Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes,
will He really find faith on the earth?”

Luke 17:20-37 (NKJV)
20 Now when He was asked by the Pharisees
when the kingdom of God would come,
He answered them and said,
“The kingdom of God does not come with observation;
21 nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’
For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.”
22 Then He said to the disciples,
“The days will come when you will desire to see
one of the days of the Son of Man,
and you will not see it.
23 And they will say to you,
‘Look here!’ or ‘Look there!’
Do not go after them or follow them.
24 For as the lightning that flashes
out of one part under heaven
shines to the other part under heaven,
so also the Son of Man will be in His day.
25 But first He must suffer many things
and be rejected by this generation.
26 And as it was in the days of Noah,
so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:
27 They ate, they drank, they married wives,
they were given in marriage,
until the day that Noah entered the ark,
and the flood came and destroyed them all.
28 Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot:
They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold,
they planted, they built;
29 but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom
it rained fire and brimstone from heaven
and destroyed them all.
30 Even so will it be in the day
when the Son of Man is revealed.
31 “In that day, he who is on the housetop,
and his goods are in the house,
let him not come down to take them away.
And likewise the one who is in the field,
let him not turn back.
32 Remember Lot’s wife.
33 Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it,
and whoever loses his life will preserve it.
34 I tell you, in that night there will be two men in one bed:
the one will be taken and the other will be left.
35 Two women will be grinding together:
the one will be taken and the other left.
36 [Two men will be in the field:
the one will be taken and the other left.”
37 And they answered and said to Him,
“Where, Lord?”
So He said to them, “Wherever the body is,
there the eagles will be gathered together.”

 

1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 (PTP)
The Passion Translation
16 For the Lord himself will appear
with the declaration of victory,
the shout of an archangel,
and the trumpet blast of God.
He will descend from the heavenly realm
and command those who are
dead in Christ to rise first.
17 Then we who are alive will join them,
transported together in clouds
to have an encounter with the Lord in the air,
and we will be forever joined with the Lord.
18 So encourage one another with these truths.

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Fast and Pray Oct 25

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2 Kings 17 (NLT)

13 Again and again the Lord had
sent his prophets and seers
to warn both Israel and Judah:
“Turn from all your evil ways.
Obey my commands
and decrees—the entire law
that I commanded your ancestors
to obey, and that I gave you through
my servants the prophets.”

14 But the Israelites would not listen.
They were as stubborn as their ancestors
who had refused to believe
in the Lord their God.

15 They rejected his decrees
and the covenant he had made
with their ancestors,
and they despised all his warnings.
They worshiped worthless idols,
so they became worthless themselves.
They followed the example
of the nations around them,
disobeying the Lord’s command
not to imitate them.

Daniel 10 (NLT)

1 In the third year of the reign
of King Cyrus of Persia, Daniel
(also known as Belteshazzar)
had another vision.
He understood that the vision
concerned events certain
to happen in the future—times
of war and great hardship.

2 When this vision came to me,
I, Daniel, had been in mourning
for three whole weeks.
3 All that time I had eaten no rich food.
No meat or wine crossed my lips,
and I used no fragrant lotions
until those three weeks had passed.

12 Then he said, “Don’t be afraid, Daniel.
Since the first day you began to pray
for understanding and to
humble yourself before your God,
your request has been heard in heaven.
I have come in answer to your prayer.

13 But for twenty-one days
the spirit prince of
the kingdom of Persia blocked my way.
Then Michael, one of the archangels,
came to help me, and I left him there
with the spirit prince of the kingdom of Persia

14 Now I am here to explain what will happen
to your people in the future,
for this vision concerns a time yet to come.”

Psalm 140 (NKJV)

1 Deliver me, O Lord, from evil men;
Preserve me from violent men,

2 Who plan evil things in their hearts;
They continually gather together for war.

3 They sharpen their tongues like a serpent;
The poison of asps is under their lips. Selah

4 Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked;
Preserve me from violent men,
Who have purposed to make my steps stumble.

5 The proud have hidden a snare for me, and cords;
They have spread a net by the wayside;
They have set traps for me. Selah

6 I said to the Lord: “You are my God;
Hear the voice of my supplications, O Lord.

7 O God the Lord, the strength of my salvation,
You have covered my head in the day of battle.

8 Do not grant, O Lord, the desires of the wicked;
Do not further his wicked scheme,
Lest they be exalted. Selah

9 “As for the head
of those who surround me,
Let the evil of their lips
cover them;

10 Let burning coals fall upon them;
Let them be cast into the fire,
Into deep pits,
that they rise not up again.

11 Let not a slanderer
be established in the earth;
Let evil hunt the violent man
to overthrow him.”

12 I know that the Lord
will maintain
The cause of the afflicted,
And justice for the poor.

13 Surely the righteous
shall give thanks to Your name;
The upright
shall dwell in Your presence.

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Our Gang Isaiah 59 Sep13

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Psalm 109:2-5 (NKJV)
2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful
Have opened against me;
They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
3 They have also surrounded me with words of hatred,
And fought against me without a cause.
4 In return for my love they are my accusers,
But I give myself to prayer.
5 Thus they have rewarded me evil for good,
And hatred for my love.

8 Let his days be few,
And let another take his office.

Isaiah 59
New King James Version
Separated from God
59 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened,
That it cannot save;
Nor His ear heavy,
That it cannot hear.
2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God;
And your sins have hidden His face from you,
So that He will not hear.
3 For your hands are defiled with [a]blood,
And your fingers with iniquity;
Your lips have spoken lies,
Your tongue has muttered perversity.

4 No one calls for justice,
Nor does any plead for truth.
They trust in empty words and speak lies;
They conceive [b]evil and bring forth iniquity.
5 They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s web;
He who eats of their eggs dies,
And from that which is crushed a viper breaks out.

6 Their webs will not become garments,
Nor will they cover themselves with their works;
Their works are works of iniquity,
And the act of violence is in their hands.
7 Their feet run to evil,
And they make haste to shed innocent blood;
Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
Wasting and destruction are in their paths.
8 The way of peace they have not known,
And there is no justice in their ways;
They have made themselves crooked paths;
Whoever takes that way shall not know peace.

Sin Confessed
9 Therefore justice is far from us,
Nor does righteousness overtake us;
We look for light, but there is darkness!
For brightness, but we walk in blackness!
10 We grope for the wall like the blind,
And we grope as if we had no eyes;
We stumble at noonday as at twilight;
We are as dead men in desolate places.
11 We all growl like bears,
And moan sadly like doves;
We look for justice, but there is none;
For salvation, but it is far from us.
12 For our transgressions are multiplied before You,
And our sins testify against us;
For our transgressions are with us,
And as for our iniquities, we know them:
13 In transgressing and lying against the Lord,
And departing from our God,
Speaking oppression and revolt,
Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
14 Justice is turned back,
And righteousness stands afar off;
For truth is fallen in the street,
And equity cannot enter.
15 So truth fails,
And he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.

The Redeemer of Zion
Then the Lord saw it, and [c]it displeased Him
That there was no justice.
16 He saw that there was no man,
And wondered that there was no intercessor;
Therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him;
And His own righteousness, it sustained Him.
17 For He put on righteousness as a breastplate,
And a helmet of salvation on His head;
He put on the garments of vengeance for clothing,
And was clad with zeal as a cloak.
18 According to their deeds, accordingly He will repay,
Fury to His adversaries,
Recompense to His enemies;
The coastlands He will fully repay.
19 So shall they fear
The name of the Lord from the west,
And His glory from the rising of the sun;
When the enemy comes in like a flood,
The Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him.

20 “The Redeemer will come to Zion,
And to those who turn from transgression in Jacob,”
Says the Lord.

21 “As for Me,” says the Lord, “this is My covenant with them: My Spirit
who is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not
depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from
the mouth of your descendants’ descendants,” says the Lord, “from this
time and forevermore.”

Hebrews 10:25 (NKJV)
New King James Version
not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of
some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day
approaching.

Isaiah 61:1-3 (NKJV)
“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me,
To preach good tidings to the poor;
He has sent Me to [a]heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives,
And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,
And the day of vengeance of our God;
To comfort all who mourn,
3 To [b]console those who mourn in Zion,
To give them beauty for ashes,
The oil of joy for mourning,
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
That they may be called trees of righteousness,
The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.”