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Faith Is Active

Faith Bible Study Guide

We need to realize, friends, that’s what faith is. Faith is acting upon God’s Word.
So many people, however, are waiting for answers to prayer to just come to them. For example, when it comes to receiving healing or the infilling of the Holy Ghost, too often people just wait for something to happen with a passive faith instead of an active faith. But if you need finances, for example, and you’re just waiting for something to turn up, nothing will turn up but more bills to pay!

I met someone in Colorado several years ago. He wasn’t working and he had a wife and five children, but he was just “trusting” God for something to turn up. Of course nothing ever did turn up because he wasn’t in faith. He had been at that church a year, and the church had been taking care of them. You see, this man was waiting for something to turn up, but nothing ever did turn up because he needed to get busy and put action to his faith.

God will help you meet your financial obligations, but from the natural standpoint, you have a part to play, and you can’t just stay at home and expect something to come to you. You can pray and believe God, but then you must act on your faith by actively looking for a job, and something will happen. The same is true from the spiritual standpoint. Too many folks are waiting for something to come to them. But it won’t come to them as long as they are just passively waiting for God to do something for them. No, they must get busy and act on God’s Word.