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How God Builds Your Faith:
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by Rick Warren
"But when you ask Him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not
waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the
sea that is blown and tossed by the wind . . . Their loyalty is divided
between God and the world, and they are unstable in everything they do"
(James 1:6, 8 NLT).
After God gives you a dream, the next step for building your faith is
decision; God challenges you to do something about your dream.
Nothing is going to happen to that dream until you wake up and put it into
action. You've got to make the decision: "I'm going to go for it!" For every
ten dreamers in the world, there is only one decision maker. A lot of people
have dreams but they never get to step two: making the decision to trust God
and follow their dream.
James says, "But when you pray, you must believe and not doubt at all.
Whoever doubts is like a wave in the sea that is driven and blown about by
the wind. If you are like that, unable to make up your mind and undecided in
all you do, you must not think that you will receive anything from the Lord"
(James 1:6-7 TEV).
Faith is a verb. It's active and not passive. It's something you do.
Decision making is a faith-building activity. You use your muscles of faith.
Faithful decision making requires two things:
1. You must decide to invest your time, money, reputation, and energy. You
lay it on the line; you take the plunge. You say, "God, You've told me to do
this and I'm going to be faithful to do it!"
2. You have to let go of security. You cannot move in faith and hold onto
the past at the same time. You have to move forward. God told Abraham that
He was going to make him the father of a great nation, and that meant
Abraham had to leave his home for an unknown destination. Moses had to let
go of his position in Pharaoh's kingdom in order to do God's will. Nehemiah
gave up a secure job in order to go build a wall around Jerusalem. In other
words, if you want to walk on water, you've got to get out of the boat.
A great illustration of God's plan is a trapeze artist. They swing out
holding onto a trapeze bar, and then they let go in order to grab hold of
another trapeze bar that swings them to the other side. But, at one point,
they're not holding on to any bar. They're suspended in air for a split
second.
Have you ever been there in a career, where you're leaving one job for
another and nothing's in between? You're 180 feet above the ground with no
net below and holding onto nothing.
But if you don't let go and grab onto the vision God wants you to have, you
swing back. Only you don't swing all the way back; instead, you swing back
lower and lower until you're finally stopped, hanging there in the air. And
there's only one way out: down!
That's why God brings you to a point of decision, so your faith will build
as you swing toward the dream God has given you.
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