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

Scriptures for Salvation

John 3:3

Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”  (esv)

John 3:5-8

 “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ 

The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” (esv)

John 3:14-15

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 

John 3:17

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 

John 3:18

Whoever believes in him [Jesus] is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 

John 3:21

But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.

Romans 10:9

If you say with your mouth ‘Jesus is Lord’ and believe in your heart God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. (niv)

Romans 10:10

For with the heart man believes and is justified and with the mouth he says and is saved. (niv)

Revelation 3:20

Behold! I stand at the door [of your heart] and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him and he with Me. (niv)