Conventional wisdom follows the words to a popular song, “It doesn't matter what you say, it doesn't matter how you pray, as long as you say ‘Jesus'”. Nothing could be further from the truth. Man has never been left to his own devices as regards to prayer. He has never been free to choose when, where, how and what he prayers. Prayer has and still is subject to the authority and will of God as revealed in His holy, eternal, inerrant, written Word. (When did faith change from our trusting God to our getting God to do our will? When did man begin to place his faith in his ability to conjure up belief? If I can only believer enough then I can get this thing to work.)
God is not what we believe, by Faith we believe what God is as revealed in His Holy Word
God's will is not what we believe, by Faith we believe God's will as revealed in His Holy Word.
God does not do what we believe, rather by Faith we believe what God does as revealed in His Holy Word.
By a word of faith command, God does not do our bidding, rather by faith in the commands of His Holy Word we do His bidding.
Faith is not the ability to get God to act on our behalf, rather by faith we believe that He has acted and is acting on our behalf and trust in His sovereign, good and holy will.
God can do anything, but He doesn't, He only does His good and holy will. |
