Pastor Bell's Words To Live By

The problem with indiscipline is that we can trivialise our faith and reduce it to a culture of just speaking it and

Faith works!

it will happen or let us think positively and we will get the desires of our hearts. I mentioned yesterday that learning to walk by faith involves a large proportion of trust. This trust is not equal to blind faith but is built up and underpinned by the word of God. The difficulty we have among Christians is the ease with which we accept new concepts and ideas without first carrying out our due diligence to determine their authenticity. This point was graphically demonstrated last Saturday when yours truly circulated an email which appealed to the spirit of greed which is in all of us. Needless to say I quickly repented and learned my lesson from the rebukes I received.

Similarly the subject of faith has been skewed by many Christians falling foul of people who play on their weaknesses. The ‘word of faith’ movement; the name it and claim it brigade; and those who encourage their adherents to use their new found faith in Christ to kill off their enemies.

Our faith must be rooted in the word (scripture). And it must be contextualised. So when we read that Jesus spat on the ground and made clay and put it on a blind man’s eyes and he sees, this does not mean that we should do the same and avoid sending the man to the doctor to get his eyes checked out whilst we are praying for his healing. It is God who heals through Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit. As a disciplined one, we are called to try every spirit to avoid being deceived.

Today, learn the art of discernment by grounding your faith in the word and allowing the Holy Spirit to help with the discernment process. Intuition is developed when we have fellowship with God and communion with each other.

Read Psalm 23 and meditate on it.