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Don’t Confuse Faith With Emotions by thesolutions(m): 12:04pm On Apr 12, 2023
Some years ago, the wife of one of my key leaders was diagnosed with a cyst in her womb that the doctors said had to be removed by surgery. She was told they might even have to remove her whole womb. Of course, this couple was very affected by the news. I met with them to pray with them and to partake of the holy Communion.

Honestly, I didn’t feel any faith when I prayed for them. In fact, I felt quite helpless. But I heard the Lord telling me to rest. I heard Him telling me not to even try to use faith and to simply rest in His faith. So I simply said, “Growth, I curse you to your roots in Jesus’ name. Be plucked out by your roots and be thrown into the sea.” At the same time, I also prayed the Lord would cause her youth to be renewed like the eagle’s.

A few days later, she had a final scan before her surgery. And guess what? Her gynecologist said the whole growth had simply disappeared and that it was a miracle! But the Lord didn’t stop there. Her monthly period had actually stopped for some time, but soon after I prayed for her, it returned. The Lord had renewed her womb and her youth. Hallelujah!

I felt no faith when I prayed for her, but her healing was not dependent on what I felt about my faith. Don’t look at your own faith and think, I don’t have enough faith for the breakthrough I need. Faith is nothing more than looking to Jesus.

There were only two individuals in the Gospels whom Jesus described as having “great faith”: the centurion who believed Jesus only had to speak a word and his servant at home would be healed (Matt. 8:5–13) and the Syro-Phoenician woman to whom Jesus said, “O woman, great is your faith!” (Matt. 15:21–28).

And neither of them was conscious of their own faith.

Do you want to know what they were conscious of? They were conscious of Jesus. They saw Him as the One who was faithful and powerful. They had a great estimation of His grace and goodness. And as they saw Him in His grace, He saw them in their faith!

Don’t worry about whether or not you have enough faith. Just look to Jesus. Spend time in His presence. Watch or listen to sermons that are full of Jesus. When you touch Jesus, you touch faith because He is the author and finisher of faith (Heb. 12:2). The Bible declares He is faithful, and He will not allow you to go through more than what you can bear (1 Cor. 10:13). He will carry you through.

This devotional is taken from the book The Healing Power of the Holy Communion—A 90-Day Devotional.

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Re: Don’t Confuse Faith With Emotions by Odin13: 12:57pm On Apr 12, 2023
Thank you
Re: Don’t Confuse Faith With Emotions by Kobojunkie: 5:41pm On Apr 12, 2023
thesolutions:
■ This devotional is taken from the book The Healing Power of the Holy Communion—A 90-Day Devotional.
1. I can tell from this that the content of even this devotional is filled with gobbledegook since it attempts to explain that which is of God using meaningless analogies. Read Genesis 26 vs 5 to understand, from the mouth of God Himself, what it means to live a faithful life. undecided
Re: Don’t Confuse Faith With Emotions by thesolutions(m): 5:54pm On Apr 12, 2023
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Kobojunkie:
1. I can tell from this that the content of even this devotional is filled with gobbledegook since it attempts to explain that which is of God using meaningless analogies. Read Genesis 26 vs 5 to understand, from the mouth of God Himself, what it means to live a faithful life. undecided
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Re: Don’t Confuse Faith With Emotions by Kobojunkie: 6:13pm On Apr 12, 2023
thesolutions:
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Feel free to compare what God said of Abraham's expression of faith and what this devotional is attempting to make you believe. Both of them cannot be true. undecided
Re: Don’t Confuse Faith With Emotions by thesolutions(m): 6:23pm On Apr 12, 2023
Kobojunkie:
Feel free to compare what God said of Abraham's expression of faith and what this devotional is attempting to make you believe. Both of them cannot be true. undecided
If I want the audience to read what God said of Abraham's expression of faith, I will probably quote the scripture you put up. But the audience I intended the post for understands what the devotional was about and are glad to read it and say 'Yes Daddy', 'Thank you Daddy'. If that devotional doesn't gladden your heart, you are probably carrying a different seed of Knowledge that is mixed with hate and you know that is probably not of God because God is Love. We do not compare God to anything or with anything.
Re: Don’t Confuse Faith With Emotions by Kobojunkie: 6:27pm On Apr 12, 2023
thesolutions:
■ If I want the audience to read what God said of Abraham's expression of faith, I will probably quote the scripture you put up. But the audience I intended the post for understands what the devotional was about and are glad to read it and say 'Yes Daddy', 'Thank you Daddy'. If that devotional doesn't gladden your heart, you are probably carrying a different seed of Knowledge that is mixed with hate and you know that is probably not of God because God is Love. We do not compare God to anything or with anything.
1. So, you are not at all interested in spreading the Truth of God. Your focus is instead on pacifying the crowd with disinformation as is the way with your many daddies and mommies. Ok. lipsrsealed
Re: Don’t Confuse Faith With Emotions by thesolutions(m): 10:11pm On Apr 12, 2023
Kobojunkie:
1. So, you are not at all interested in spreading the Truth of God. Your focus is instead on pacifying the crowd with disinformation as is the way with your many daddies and mommies. Ok. lipsrsealed
Truth of God? Or you intend to say Knowledge of God. You also said pacify the crowd as if Christendom is agitating for something.

Because you do not believe in the miraculous, hearing that by just believing that someone else is faithful can change your situations will always provoke your thought about such believe. When He said 'by his stripes, we were healed', does it sound truth of God by your postulation? He is the truth of God. What his followers believe they can get in Him, they shall get. It is not by how faithful they have been, but by how faithful he is.
Re: Don’t Confuse Faith With Emotions by Kobojunkie: 10:25pm On Apr 12, 2023
thesolutions:
■ Truth of God? Or you intend to say Knowledge of God.
■ You also said pacify the crowd as if Christendom is agitating for something.
■ Because you do not believe in the miraculous, hearing that by just believing
1. Jesus Christ is the Truth of God; He told you this. undecided

2. According to Jesus Christ, that is what Religion does to the mind of people. It deceives and deludes them with lies — the doctrines and traditions of men— nullifying the Power of God, rendering their worship of Him of no value - Matthew 15 vs 1 - 14 & Mark 7 vs 1 - 13. undecided

3. Your retort makes no sense. Unbelievers also experience what are random miracles... Look online to see this for yourself. And this does not mean they are following God in their unbelief. All that does is confirm that God's mercy is, as Jesus Christ confirmed, poured out on even the wicked and the ungrateful in the world. It in no way gives sanction to any of the gobbledegook contained in your OP, however. undecided

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