Faith Comes in and Goes Out

Good afternoon everybody,
Today I was reading a devotional on www.rhema.org. You can’t subscribe; you have to visit every day, but it is WORTH it!! Click on study center and devotional.
Today’s was on Mark 11:23, and the Lord showed me, or recalled for me, several things to share with you all at once. I pray that I can bring them out coherently, here goes…
Romans 10:17 says that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. You can’t have faith for something you haven’t heard about. For instance, when you were little, you would ask mom or dad for something. But you could not have faith for it until you heard them say yes. Boy, then you know you’ve got it!
Even if you have to wait a little, you have faith in your parent’s word.
Well, now you have a Father who never lies and never fails. You just need to hear and hear what He said. Faith in God is faith in His word. Anything else is just ‘high expectation off the wrong information’. (I heard that somewhere)
So that is how faith comes, but simply having faith is not enough to get results. James says faith without works is dead. We must release our faith by acting, and our primary action is speaking. Faith goes out by speaking mostly, and of course, doing whatever the Lord tells you. But clearly in Mark 11:23 the Lord tells us to speak. Say to the mountain be removed and be cast into the sea, believe and do not doubt what you say, you will have what you say. Notice that say is mentioned three times as much as believe. Jesus said that, so what we say is important to Him. Really important! He was very careful with his words. ‘so, what can I say, Nancy? ‘ well, if it agrees with the word of God, speak freely. If it is contrary to the word, bite your lip! Anything in between, use the law of love. Simple, right? Ok, maybe it takes practice, but WE CAN DO IT! See how I spoke faith there? It’s easy, isn’t it! I love you all!
Healed by His stripes,
Nancy Bass