BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH

Many would love to hear God speak but aren’t convinced God will speak. Not believing God will speak is unbelief. The same is true for answering prayers. Spend time in God’s presence. The enemy of your soul will try to convince you that you are wasting your time. There is no more valuable thing to do than being in God’s presence and listening to His voice.

Faith comes by hearing God’s leading, teaching, or correcting voice. Faith gives you access into God’s grace. God’s grace is God’s power to do God’s work through you. It’s God’s amazing power to do whatever God commanded you to do.

God will shape you into the image and likeness of Christ. He will lead you in righteousness and make you invincible to the attacks of the enemy if you continue in God’s presence. You will come in and go out for now, but God’s plan is that you come into the Holy of Holies with Him and never go out again. He wants you to flow in His love, wisdom, and knowledge, which are only available in Him.

You are not going it alone. Go in the strength of the body of Christ. Discern Christ’s body. If you don’t regularly attend a church, ask God to lead you to one. Don’t rush out and join a church. Don’t pay attention to religious marketing campaigns. Read 1 Corinthians 14 to see what a church service should look at and you won’t be impressed with the entertainment churches. Consider a home church. See if God is leading you to start a church in your home but be careful of preacher’s itch. It happens easily. Pride creeps in. Much of what we call “church” is centered on human traditions, fleshly desires, and egos rather than the command of God. Ask God to show you what is not in Scripture that you see in the churches. Ask God to show you what is in Scripture that is not in churches.

See Christ in your brothers and sisters. Everyone has a fleshly nature, but that is not the identity of Christ’s body. Each one is a ministry. The ministry in each one is Christ within, the hope of glory. Discern the body of Christ.

“And we all, with unveiled face, continually seeing as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are progressively being transformed into His image from one degree of glory to even more glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit” (2 Corinthians 3:18).

That’s the by grace through faith way.

Ask God to answer these questions.
What does it mean for you to hear God speak?
Why do some people think God won’t speak to them?
Since all love, goodness, wisdom, and knowledge are in Christ, what happens when you don’t stay in Christ’s presence all the time?
What is the most valuable thing you can do with your time?
How does God shape you to be like Jesus?

Bonus questions:

How can you be invincible to the enemy?
Why is it important to go to church?
What does it mean to see Christ in other Christians?

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