THE OBEDIENCE OF FAITH

 Kris Vallotton | March 4, 2020
Often God will ask us to prepare for a battle but then He brings victory in an unexpected way that we did not prepare for. Our victory is in obedience. In this podcast, I teach what faithfulness and obedience look like, and how to respond in hope in the face of fear. I want to encourage you today to not be a slave to fear but to step out in obedience of faith!

THE OBEDIENCE OF FAITH: 
PODCAST NOTES

If you missed my last podcast, check out The Power of the Five-Fold Ministry. 


Romans 1:5 says, “...we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles for His name’s sake.”


Many people are concerned about the Coronavirus that has been spreading. Of course we need to take precautions and not pretend like germs don’t exist. We need to be wise and have taken precautions against spreading this virus.


God has called us to be hope-filled in the midst of the virus of fear that is currently spreading on the earth. This fear is simply faith in the wrong god. You can’t have fear without faith, because in order to be afraid you have to actually believe you are in trouble. 


Romans 8:15 says, “For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, ‘Abba! Father!’” It’s important that we trust God as a good Father in the midst of this spirit of fear that is on the world right now.


I posted this mini blog on Facebook a while back that describes what faith looks like:

In the world seeing is believing, yet in the Kingdom, believing is seeing. Faith is not the absence of facts; it's the presence of conviction.

There is actually no such thing as blind faith because faith sees what is not yet visible, hopes for what is not yet viable, and trusts long before someone is really reliable.

Faith is the bridge between what is and what will be, it is the road to recovery, and the pathway out of poverty.

Faith is not a mindless exercise in futility, but it is a spirit led adventure into heavenly habitations.

The question isn't do you have faith but where is your faith...where do you store it? Everyone has faith but if we don't invest it in the Infinite One, then we spend it on finite solutions that lead to fear resolutions.

Fear is faith in the wrong god. Fear is the expectation of a negative outcome, the dread of something going awry, the sense of being out of control.

But faith in God produces the fruit of the Spirit; which includes; love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control!

WHAT CAN WE DO?

Here are four actions I recommend:
  1. Fast your fear. I would like to call us to fast fear for 40 days.
  2. Speak to the mountains of despair; and drown them in the sea of faith. Life and death are in the power of the tongue! Faith doesn’t ignore the facts, it overrides it with the truth.
  3. Refuse to be entertained by hopelessness. Don’t click on the obvious bad messages and promote the hopeless message.
  4. Vote! Be proactive with the power you’ve been given to vote for righteousness. 

Scripture references: 
Romans 1:5, Romans 8:15, Psalm 33:17, Proverbs 21:31, Luke 22:38, John 18:10-11, Isaiah 49:23b, Hebrews 11:6, Matthew 17:20, Luke 18:1-8, Proverbs 18:21, Galatians 5:22, Lamentations 3:21, Romans 8:28, Isaiah 60:1-5, Romans 13:1-10
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