What God Is Saying (Living Faith)

How much do you give God to work with in your life. How much time, how much attention, how much belief and love, how much money. God has given everyone of us "the measure of faith" Romans 12:3 says. A measure that includes everything we need – and it can grow. If you bring God the measure you have, He will fill it. If you bring Him more He will fill more. The problem is never on the giving end, but only on the receieving end. God will occupy whatever space you allow Him to fill . . Pastor Nicholas Word Resources – Ministry home site : https://www.muchgrace.church/ Prophet's book : https://www.tribulation-saints.com/ Pastor's book : https://simplicityofchrist314608717.wordpress.com/

When it comes to receiving from God, faith and parience work together to bring us into alignment with His promises. If it weren't for faith we would not have much to be patient about. If it weren't for patience, a lot of what we hope God to do would not have time to show up! Faith is essential, and though patience is much less popular it is no less needed for what we believe to become sight. We also begin with a little message against fear because we are in the Halloween season and no matter whatever else Christians do during this season, we should have nothing to do the spirit of fear . . God Bless, Pastor Nicholas Word Resources – Ministry home site : https://www.muchgrace.church/ Prophet's book : https://www.tribulation-saints.com/ Pastor's book : https://simplicityofchrist314608717.wordpress.com/

The Bible tells us that God has distributed a measure of faith to each of us. And Jesus said, "With the same measure YOU use, it will be measured to you...." That means two things : None of us are without faith and no matter how great God's grace is, we receive according to our faith. Religion has created a Sovereignty of God the Scripture does not recognize. It was out of God's Sovereignty that we receive from Him "by grace through faith" . . Pastor Nicholas Word Resources – Ministry home site : https://www.muchgrace.church/ Prophet's book : https://www.tribulation-saints.com/ Pastor's book : https://simplicityofchrist314608717.wordpress.com/

Jesus said, "With the same measure YOU use, it will be measured to you...." The Bible tells us that God has distributed a measure of faith to each of us. That means both that none of us are without faith and all of us are without excuse for not using what faith we have. What we do with our faith determines whether it grows or stays the same size. If it grows we can receive more from God. Hallelujah! For we receive from God "by the hearing of [our] faith." (see Galatians 3:1-5) Well, if we want better results from God's grace we should use our measure of faith . . Pastor Nicholas Word Resources – Ministry home site : https://www.muchgrace.church/ Prophet's book : https://www.tribulation-saints.com/ Pastor's book : https://simplicityofchrist314608717.wordpress.com/

Colossians 2:10 tells that we have been made Complete in Christ. Nothing missing, nothing broken, nothing partial or lacking. Oh, what wholeness and wellness we have in Christ Jesus – spirit soul and body. Hallelujah! But why do we not see more of God's children experiencing this wholeness? Is it God's fault? No. He has already made us complete in Christ. There is a simple yet powerful key hidden in [the plain sight of] the Word of God, that if we line up with it – it works. If we don't, it won't. What is it? Well let's look at it in the Word together . . Pastor Nicholas Word Resources – Ministry home site : https://www.muchgrace.church/ Prophet's book : https://www.tribulation-saints.com/ Pastor's book : https://simplicityofchrist314608717.wordpress.com/

One aspect of faith is entering The Lord's sabbath Rest, which is not necessarily the absence of activity, but the receiving and enjoying of what God has already provided. God rested from His work because He was finished, we rest from our [dead] works because our works don't add to what He's finished. In the rest of faith we can relax and receive what God has already accomplished for us in Christ . . Pastor Nicholas Word Resources – Ministry home site : https://www.muchgrace.church/ Prophet's book : https://www.tribulation-saints.com/ Pastor's book : https://simplicityofchrist314608717.wordpress.com/

God did not rest on the 7th Day because He was tired – He rested because He was finished. Finished with the work of creation. In the New Testament when God invites mankind to enter His Rest, He is talking about receiving the benefits of Christ's work completed at the Cross. Jesus Himself cried out with a loud voice, "It is finished!" before breathing His last. Nothing is left undone on God's part for all men to be saved, healed, prosperous and provided for – except to Receive it by Faith on their part. Thank You, Lord! That is what it means to Enter His Rest . . Pastor Nicholas Word Resources – Ministry home site : https://www.muchgrace.church/ Prophet's book : https://www.tribulation-saints.com/ Pastor's book : https://simplicityofchrist314608717.wordpress.com/

Everything that God offers mankind in Christ is a work He has completely finished. God is not GOING TO save anybody – He ALREADY HAS saved everybody through Jesus. But not all are saved because we each have to Receive what Christ has done individually by faith. It is the same with healing, provision, protection and any other grace God provides. Whatever we need is already offered us in its entirety as the free gift in Christ that it is, but we have to Receive grace by Faith or we will never experience it . . Pastor Nicholas Word Resources – Ministry home site : https://www.muchgrace.church/ Prophet's book : https://www.tribulation-saints.com/ Pastor's book : https://simplicityofchrist314608717.wordpress.com/

The Spirit of God has deposited a measure, a portion of His love in the heart of every child of God. Such love inside helps us conform to His purposes outside, where the Spirit of Power comes upon us in service to build up the Body of Christ. The gifts of the Spirit are not soulical or material, carnal or intellectual – they are Holy Spirit-ual. They flow most easily and purely in the life of those who are most surrendered to the Spirit of God, who is the Spirit of Love . . Pastor Nicholas Word Resources – Ministry home site : https://www.muchgrace.church/ Prophet's book : https://www.tribulation-saints.com/ Pastor's book : https://simplicityofchrist314608717.wordpress.com/

The Spirit of God IS the Spirit of Love, for God is Love. The more we yield to the Spirit of God the more we will walk in Love and possess the Power the Spirit provides. Even human compassion doesn't like seeing people in a bad way – how much more the Love of God! The Holy Spirit provides us with powerful gifts to edify the Church. Without these supernatural gifts, love is full of good intentions, but only so effective. But without Love, the gifts profit us nothing. It is not an either / or proposition. What we ought to have is both Love and Power . . Pastor Nicholas Word Resources – Ministry home site : https://www.muchgrace.church/ Prophet's book : https://www.tribulation-saints.com/ Pastor's book : https://simplicityofchrist314608717.wordpress.com/

The Spirit of God IS the Spirit of Love, and to flow in the Spirit one must learn the way of love. Love is not about you, it is about the benefit or blessing brought to someone else. The Holy Spirit gives these gifts to each of us as He wills for the help of the rest of us. This is the aspect that keeps the working of them pure, undefiled by self promotion and selfish ambition. The Holy Spirit provides us with powerful, supernatural gifts to edify the Church and testify of The Lordship of Jesus . . Pastor Nicholas Word Resources – Ministry home site : https://www.muchgrace.church/ Prophet's book : https://www.tribulation-saints.com/ Pastor's book : https://simplicityofchrist314608717.wordpress.com/

The Bible gives us godly examples to follow and ungodly examples to be warned from. There are those who operate in the gifts of the Spirit with love and a pure heart, and there are those who sought the gifts and manifestations for the wrong reasons and with wrong motives. God knows all about it, and when judgment day comes He will bring all things to light. In the mean time we want to judge ourselves so that when that day comes, our works pass through the fire for reward - because we did it is love and with a right heart . . Pastor Nicholas Word Resources – Ministry home site : https://www.muchgrace.church/ Prophet's book : https://www.tribulation-saints.com/ Pastor's book : https://simplicityofchrist314608717.wordpress.com/

No matter how gifted you may be or how many gifts of the Spirit you may have operated in - if you do not have love it doesn't matter. God is in His gifts, but God IS Love. Pastor Nicholas Word Resources – Ministry home site : https://www.muchgrace.church/ Prophet's book : https://www.tribulation-saints.com/ Pastor's book : https://simplicityofchrist314608717.wordpress.com/

Today we return to our study from the Word of God on the gifts of the Spirit. We find that as much as proper instruction is necessary to handle gifts responsibly, God also wants us to Desire these precious manifestations of the Spirit. They are as the Spirit wills – but He wills! And He wants us to will in line with Him. He also wants us to want these spiritual gifts for the same purpose He is giving them. That is Love. The Holy Spirit is the great Comforter and Helper, He is the Spirit of Love. Hallelujah! Let us earnestly desire the gifts of the Spirit as we pursue being the help and comfort God wants us to be in the earth for Him . . Pastor Nicholas Word Resources – Ministry home site : https://www.muchgrace.church/ Prophet's book : https://www.tribulation-saints.com/ Pastor's book : https://simplicityofchrist314608717.wordpress.com/

1 Peter 1:13 tells us to set our hope fully upon grace. Yet many people even Christians make the mistake of setting their hopes and expectations on what they think they deserve - in relationships, on the job, in purchasing, in life. The grace of God and what we think we deserve are not the same thing. God doesn't owe us anything we would want to have. Grace on the other hand is all about not getting the Bad we do deserve and being given all the Good we don't deserve . . Pastor Nicholas Word Resources – Ministry home site : https://www.muchgrace.church/ Prophet's book : https://www.tribulation-saints.com/ Pastor's book : https://simplicityofchrist314608717.wordpress.com/

Having the hope of the promises of God inside you is a lot like being with child. Strength is needed – both to carry that child for 9 months, and then to bring that which is inside you... out. You need Strength to see it through – to the end. Until everything God has promised comes to pass. And until everything I see lines up with what God has said, I'm not going to let myself get disappointed or offended by what I do or do not see. I will live by faith and not by sight. I will be strong in The Lord and in the power of His might. I will rejoice in Hope all the way to the end. Hallelujah! Pastor Nicholas Word Resources – Ministry home site : https://www.muchgrace.church/ Prophet's book : https://www.tribulation-saints.com/ Pastor's book : https://simplicityofchrist314608717.wordpress.com/

Hosea 4:6a nasb says, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." If we are growing in the knowledge of The Lord we are going to get destroyed less and less. Hallelujah! Because our lives will be in line with God's Blessing and protection. But there are always going to be things you know and things you don't know. What do we do when what we see doesn't line up with what we know from God's Word. Do we get offended, disappointed, do we blame God? Or do we put on humility and trust God no matter what . . Pastor Nicholas Word Resources – Ministry home site : https://www.muchgrace.church/ Prophet's book : https://www.tribulation-saints.com/ Pastor's book : https://simplicityofchrist314608717.wordpress.com/

The Bible says, “Anyone who trusts in Him will never be disgraced” (Romans 10:11b). But have you or anyone you know ever been disgraced or ashamed or disappointed because you thought you were trusting God – and nothing happened or things even got worse. The immediate temptation is to throw in the towel. It is a sensitive subject, but overcoming offenses in this area are essential to knowing God. Just because we are going through difficulties and trials does not mean God does not love us or that His Word doesn't work. Trusting His love no matter what is how we overwhelmingly conquer our difficulties and trials . . Pastor Nicholas Word Resources – Ministry home site : https://www.muchgrace.church/ Prophet's book : https://www.tribulation-saints.com/ Pastor's book : https://simplicityofchrist314608717.wordpress.com/

In order to receive what God has promised, He requires that we say what He says. Over our life, over our bodies, over our children, over our finances. What is in our hearts will come out of our mouths. If we are not saying it – there is a reason. It is just not a good reason. God, who never lies, has promised and given His solemn oath so that we have no excuse except to believe Him, say what He says and get what He promised! If you don't have what God promised in His Word, check up on what you're saying . . Pastor Nicholas Word Resources – Ministry home site : https://www.muchgrace.church/ Prophet's book : https://www.tribulation-saints.com/ Pastor's book : https://simplicityofchrist314608717.wordpress.com/

Jesus said, "Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away." That statement should be one of the greatest sources of comfort and strength to us, because our Hope is based on God's Word. Not any thing in earth or even in Heaven. The Word is more certain than anything else. Where men may fail, God does not - He cannot. If God lied, the very fabric of the universe would disintegrate instantly. For by the power of God's Word all things – even our very life of faith – hold together . . Pastor Nicholas Word Resources – Ministry home site : https://www.muchgrace.church/ Prophet's book : https://www.tribulation-saints.com/ Pastor's book : https://simplicityofchrist314608717.wordpress.com/

There are some Bible subjects that most believers take for granted and others that they ignore entirely. Hope is just such a subject. People think they know all about it and don't need to be taught it, so they really don't know anything about it and aren't using it right - so hope is not working for them as it should. When hope doesn't work right the Bible says we become disappointed and ashamed because what we hope for doesn't happen. God doesn't want us ashamed, He wants to see what He promised fulfilled in our lives . . Pastor Nicholas Word Resources – Ministry home site : https://www.muchgrace.church/ Prophet's book : https://www.tribulation-saints.com/ Pastor's book : https://simplicityofchrist314608717.wordpress.com/

True Biblical hope will cause us to abound. If our hope is set on somebody or something other than God and what He would do for us – that is a false hope. Which will end in our disappointment and embarrassment. God is not just the most sure and reliable place to put our hope – Jesus IS our Hope. Everything He has done for us, everything He is doing for us now and everything He will do in the future – is our sure and steadfast hope. Glory to God . . Pastor Nicholas Word Resources – Ministry home site : https://www.muchgrace.church/ Prophet's book : https://www.tribulation-saints.com/ Pastor's book : https://simplicityofchrist314608717.wordpress.com/

Biblical hope is not just for the expectation of going to Heaven when we die, but is also the expectationof what God is going to do with our lives. The thing about hope is that we can have it Now – but it is itself concerning the Future. And God has a good plan for our lives! Oh yes! But whether or not we fulfill the destiny He has for us is not all up to God. Our participation is required, and we ought to eagerly look forward to walking in the good works God has planned and prepared for us to do. Hallelujah! Pastor Nicholas Word Resources – Ministry home site : https://www.muchgrace.church/ Prophet's book : https://www.tribulation-saints.com/ Pastor's book : https://simplicityofchrist314608717.wordpress.com/

Jesus was sent by the Father to a lost and dying world to give us, in one word - Hope. Outside of Christ Jesus there is no hope - not for this life or the next. I didn't say that, the Bible does. This life was never meant to be lived apart from Jesus because only in union with Him do all things hold together. (Which is why so much of the world is falling apart all around us.) The bigger your revelation of Jesus, the greater your hope in God will be. The smaller your revelation of Jesus, the smaller your expectation of good from God will be . . Pastor Nicholas Word Resources – Ministry home site : https://www.muchgrace.church/ Prophet's book : https://www.tribulation-saints.com/ Pastor's book : https://simplicityofchrist314608717.wordpress.com/

Bible faith is inseparable from Bible hope. If you are in real faith you have real hope. We might say it this way, if you are believing God and doingnwhat He says - you have something good to look forward to! Glory to God! Faith is now, hope is future, and God has a wonderfully good future planned for everyone to look forward to if they'll get in faith right now. For this life and the next . . Pastor Nicholas Word Resources – Ministry home site : https://www.muchgrace.church/ Prophet's book : https://www.tribulation-saints.com/ Pastor's book : https://simplicityofchrist314608717.wordpress.com/