‘And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way;
the devil is gone out of thy daughter.’ – Mark 7 vs 29
Hello Dearly Beloved, I want us to look into this, unlocking performance through faith. In my previous teaching, I talked about unlocking
performance through believing, and now we are talking about unlocking performance
through faith. Waow. That goes to tell us that there differences between faith
and believe. Be Blessed as you read in Jesus Name. AMEN.
Believe simply means a hope in the heart that such things as
one expects shall come. On the other hand, faith is the step which is prompted
by our believing: Faith is one’s
response towards God as a Result of his belief in the Word of God or in HIS
personality at a given time, for a specific purpose. – Selah
Now let’s see the story that births our opening scripture;
‘For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean
spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:
26 The woman was a
Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth
the devil out of her daughter.
27 But Jesus said
unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the
children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.
28 And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the
dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
29 And he said
unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy
daughter.
30 And when she was come to her house, she found the devil
gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.’ – Mark 7 vs 25 – 30 {KING JAMES
VERSION}
Beloved did you take note of that? The LORD was moved to
respond to her plight because of what she said. The woman coming to Jesus and
falling at his feet making a request of HIM, shows to us that she had belief in
Him to do the desired miracle, but you see sometimes, we have to move from
belief, sometimes, we have to take a step further which is faith. This woman
believed in Jesus, and she expressed it through her worship to Him, and the
Lord knew that she had believe in Him to do the miracle, but we saw that Jesus
gave her no attention as to the healing. That tells us that sometimes, stopping
at our believing will not get us the desired result, that believe needs to be
expressed; and the expression of ones belief in the Master is FAITH. – Selah
What was the
expression of this woman’s faith?
Let’s observe closely what she said to the Master;
28 And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the
dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
You see that? What a construction.
You have believed God for a job or a new job, and it seems
it’s not coming forth, don’t sit down there feeling discouraged at God, don’t
sit down there and let the devil discourage you, just take a look at this
woman’s case and learn from her. – Selah
She said a Psalm unto the Lord. That was a psalm. A psalm
doesn’t necessarily mean a song, but a Spiritually Influenced composition of
words for use in the praise and worship of God. Psalms are spiritually
influenced words, composed to the extolling of God, exposing His mighty
wonders, revealing His mighty works before Him, letting Him know that you have
known Him to be all powerful hence you trust in Him. That’s what the woman did.
By that which she said, Jesus was glorified within Him, and that provoked the
blessing she desired of Him. – Selah
You must understand that expression of faith is beyond
confessing the scriptures, it’s beyond declaring who you are in Christ Jesus,
sometimes; it’s about revealing to God who He is, confessing who He is before
Him, declaring his mighty wonders as you relate them to what you desire of Him.
You see? The woman got what she wanted not necessarily because of the
intelligence of what she said to the Master, no, but because of what the words
did and meant to HIM. The Lord was extolled by her statement, He was honored by
it, He was magnified highly by it; that was what provoked the Blessing, and not
the words themselves.
In a nut shell, magnify God, stop complaining and crying before
HIM, start worshiping Him. So we can say, Worship is an act of Faith. - Selah
God Bless You.
- Pastor Jenning Uweye
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