FAITH

Greetings,

As I sit here tonight in a motel , I was thinking about the service we had at church yesterday. We ended the service in prayer.
We were praying for our country and the church , not just our church but for the Bride of Christ.
We prayed in faith . You might say what has faith got to do with prayer? Everthing! As a child of God when we pray we have to have faith in God that he not only hears our prayers but answers them in his own time, not our time but his time. I think a lot of our prayers don't get off the floor because of lack of faith.
Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see. Hebrew 11:1 NLV . As a church today, for one thing we don't pray enough and when we do pray we don't always have confidence in the Lord that he will answer. I know that there are times when our faith is weak; that is the times we need to get as close to the lord as we can and we do that by getting in to his word. That is where we draw our strenght from is his word.
That is one reason the church is weak today in our country is the lack of faith.Lack of faith hinders what Christ can do in our church. And without the power of the Holy Spirit working in our church we can't have church, we might have a meeting but we won't have church.
When Jesus returned to his hometown in Nazareth the bible said he could only do a few miracles there because of there unbelief. Matthew 13:58 . Unbelief can stop a move of God in our churches and our lives. As a child of God we need to pray for more faith in our lives ; stay in the word and live a sanctified life.Remember James said that the earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. James 5:16 NLT . Getting back to our services yesterday we ending in prayer for revival in our land and our church and I know that God will and does answer our prayers of faith . May God Bless you and Reward your faith.Keep looking up for He is coming back.