Action Fueled By Love
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 28 May 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
James 2:26 tells us, “Faith apart from works is dead.” If we are going to experience the fullness of life offered to us through our faith we must be those who put our words into action. We must not profess to love God on Sunday and live as if he isn’t present, real, or good on Monday. May your faith come alive this week as you seek to be a doer of the word.
Our Scripture for today comes from James 2:26, and today's worship is Follow You Anywhere by Passion.
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Live a life marked by faith.
The Bible has so much to say about our faith. And if I’m being honest, a lot of it is really confusing.
In Matthew 21 Jesus tells us that we’ll receive anything we ask for, if we have faith. Hebrews 11 tells us that it’s impossible to please God if we don’t have faith. 2 Corinthians 5 tells us that it is by faith that we “see” the path forward, and not with our physical sight.
But when I look into my own heart, I come face to face with ways I doubt on a daily basis.
I often trust in my own strength, lean on my own understanding, and seek to provide for myself with my own power rather than relying on the strength, empowering, and provision of God.
But, I also know that simply trying to have more faith doesn’t work either.
This is why I wrote a four-week devotional, Faith, to unpack what the Bible says about living a life marked by an authentic faith.
Faith isn’t something we muster up on our own. It’s not something we produce or create. Faith is the natural response to seeing, experiencing, and believing in God’s faithfulness.
And the pathway to greater faith is greater experience, greater understanding, and a true heart-knowledge of God’s faithfulness to us that guides our thoughts, emotions, and actions.
We've launched Volume 6 of our First15 Devotional Series, Faith, created to guide you into transformative experiences with God’s faithfulness and empower you to start living a life marked by authentic faith.
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| 0:00.0 | James 2.26 tells us faith apart from works is dead. If we are going to experience the fullness |
| 0:12.2 | of life offered to us through our faith, we must be those who put our words into action. |
| 0:19.4 | We must not profess to love God on Sundays and live as if He is in present, real or good |
| 0:26.1 | on Monday. May your faith come alive this week as you seek to be a doer of the Word. |
| 0:33.3 | Welcome to the first of team podcast. |
| 0:41.4 | Our scripture for today comes from James 2.26. |
| 0:55.2 | Scripture says, for as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from |
| 1:02.5 | works is dead. |
| 1:07.6 | God has designed the Christian life to be one filled with adventurous and redemptive |
| 1:13.2 | action, action that is fueled by the love and work of Jesus in our own lives. |
| 1:20.7 | So great is God's love for us that He would leave the glory of heaven, take on flesh, |
| 1:28.0 | and destroy the power of sin and death with His loving sacrifice. |
| 1:33.8 | God's love is so great that He gave Himself up for us who were undeserving and could |
| 1:39.4 | never repay Him, and He longs for His love to be the foundation for all we do think and |
| 1:47.2 | feel. |
| 1:50.0 | As Christians, we are to reflect the love we have been shown in Christ through the way |
| 1:54.4 | we offer compassion and love to those around us. |
| 1:59.7 | God has appointed us as the sole carriers of His message of redemption for all. |
| 2:06.3 | He longs to use you to share and exemplify the hope that comes solely through relationship |
| 2:12.8 | with Him. |
| 2:14.8 | Love doesn't mean all that much just as an idea. |
| 2:19.1 | The power of God's love comes through action. |
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