Trust, Believe, Faith

There are three things one needs to do when they’re trusting God and that is: trust God, believe in Him and have faith in Him — have the faith of God.

The first thing you want to do is trust God. Trust His plan for your life. You don’t have to have a lot of knowledge to trust God. You just have to say your heart, “I know this is where You’re sending me. I know this is what You want me to do. I’m doing it.”

The second thing one wants to do is believe in God and Jesus Christ. Jesus said, “You believe in God. Believe also in Me.”

Finally, one wants to have faith in God or the faith of God. Jesus said about faith, “if you have the faith of a mustard seed [very small], you can say this mountain ‘be thou removed and cast into the sea, and it will obey you.'”

Trust, believe and have faith.

Grace

Not matter where we are and what we have done, grace is always there in our lives.

When the apostle Paul said, “You have been saved by grace through faith, and this is not of yourselves, but is the gift of God,” he was talking how we live our lives on a daily basis.

In thinking about it, if we could live our by faith, always, then grace would always shine through, because grace and faith are always present. And, in fact, it does.

So, do not worry. Big or small, faith is always there.

Jesus said, “If you had the faith of a mustard seed (which is very small), and not doubt, you could say to this mountain, be removed and cast into the sea, it would obey you.” (paraphrase)

Do not worry

Do not be anxious about anything

but by prayer and petition

with thanksgiving

make all your requests known to God

and the peace of God

which passes all understanding

shall guard your hearts and minds

in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:6-7

The Land of Goshen

Exodus 9:26 says: the only place it did not hail was the land of Goshen, where the Israelites were.

The land of Goshen was the land where the Israelites lived. It was in northern Egypt. It was separated from the rest of Egypt.

It was the land of prosperity.

The Egyptians could not stand to be around the Israelites, because the Israelites where sheep herders.

By separating to Israelites from the Egyptians, the place where the Israelites were prospered.

Goshen was looked down upon by the Egyptians, because they did not like to associate with Israelites.

To some we are an aroma of death leading to death, but to others, an aroma of life leading to life. 2 Corinthians 2:16

For this very reason…

For this very reason is an interesting phrase.

The word reason can be substituted with the word purpose or cause.

It is a word that is added in the English rendering of Exodus 9:16 as a help to understand the meaning of the verse, but is not there in the Hebrew.

In the Literal Standard Version it says, And yet for this.

The key word is this. The phrase this reason or this purpose or this cause is used to explain the word this in context.

The New King James says:”But indeed for this purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.”

The italicized words are there to help the reader.