John 1:17 (Amplified) says, "For while the Law was given through Moses, Grace (unearned, undeserved favor) and Spiritual Blessing, and Truth come through Jesus Christ."
God's Grace, His unearned, undeserved favor, unmerited favor, Spiritual Blessing and Truth came to us, through Jesus. In Jesus, we find all of the answers and Blessings that have been granted to us by our Father. There's no longer any need to offer sacrifice, observe days or have the ritual washings that surrounded the things of the Law. All our inheritance that Jesus had left to us through His will, are in the Word of God for us.
Hebrews 11:1 (Amplified) says, "Now faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things we hope for, being the proof of things we do not see and the conviction of their reality, faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses."
Faith is the basis for Grace to deliver God's Promises to His children. A "title deed" or will show the writing and promises of something, but we don't actually need to see the inheritance, in order to believe that what the will states is true. If your family member dies and leaves his house or property, then we would need to read his will, in order to believe that what he left is there. If you receive the deed to his house or car, then the title deed is proof of the existence of what has been given to you. This is what the Father expects of us, when it comes to the inheritance He's given us. The only thing required is that by faith, we believe what God has given us is Truth and Grace, through Jesus Christ.
God shouldn't have to show us what He has Promised, in order for us to believe. We should accept by faith, that His Promise is Truth. This is what faith is revealing to us. We've been waiting to see what He has Promised be manifested and then we will believe. This is man's way of saying, "I cannot trust Him and I must see it, before I believe in His Word." It must be heartbreaking for our Heavenly Father to hear His children declare, "I cannot believe His Promise without proof."
God's Word should be the only proof we need, in order to simply receive by faith, what He has Promised us. Demanding proof is the highest degree of doubt, towards Him. Our entire relationship with God is based on our faith in His Word. Demanding visible proof, is saying we don't trust Him. Most of us have never seen Jesus, but by faith, we must believe and trust God for what and Who Jesus really is.
Our entire redemption revelation is wrapped up in God's Word and can only be received by faith in His Grace. We keep trying to "experience it" and making it come to pass, before we believe it. Many never rest in God's Promises, because they can't see it and therefore, can't believe it. We want to speak in tongues, before we'll believe we've received the Holy Spirit. You must believe that you first receive the Holy Spirit, before you can speak with tongues.
Speaking in tongues isn't the proof you receive, but God's Word is the proof and by faith you speak. Our doubt holds us back, when we say, "I must first see it, in order to believe it." We try to feel healed, to believe we are healed, and not the other way around. In Mark 5:28-29 (Amplified), the woman with the issue of blood, kept saying, "If I only touch His garments, I shall be restored to health." Verse 29 says, "And immediately her flow of blood was dried up at the source, and suddenly she felt in her body that she was healed of her distressing ailment." This woman first believed, then she acted on her faith or believing and finally she felt her source of blood flow stop or felt in her body she was healed.
We want to feel in our body, see the flow of blood cease and then we will believe. God's Word is our proof, before we see or feel anything. When we believe, the rest simply follows. It can't resist the power of faith in God's Word. God's Will for us today, is that we allow faith to let Grace do its work in us. The Lord gave me a teaching on the "Unclaimed Riches of Grace," where He revealed to me, how our faith has never yet touched all that His Grace has made available to His children. Since that time, Ive labored to "enter into the rest," spoken about in Hebrews 4:11 (Amplified) which says, "Let us therefore be zealous and exert ourselves and strive diligently to enter that rest of God, to know and experience it for ourselves, so that no one may fall or perish by the same kind of unbelief and disobedience into which those in the Wilderness fell."
The entire walk of "those in the Wilderness" depended on faith in God's Grace to provide for them. They weren't under the Law yet, but were delivered and maintained by God's Grace. They constantly cried for proof, even after all the things God's Grace had already provided for them. This resulted in God becoming angered at their unbelief in Him. The Israelites finally refused to believe His Promises of entering into His rest in the Promised Land. Jesus is our Promised Land, He is our Rest that is still Promised today. All that God has Promised us, is entirely based on our faith in His Grace that Jesus came to bring unto us. Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ.
Our righteousness is in Jesus, by faith in God's Grace. Our healing is in Jesus. Our cleansing is in Jesus. Our son-ship rights are in Jesus. Our redemption is in Him and our authority is in Him. Our sanctification is in Jesus and all "the things faith hope for" are in Jesus, according to Hebrews 11:1 (Amplified) which says, "Now faith is the assurance (the confirmation) the title deed, of things we hope for, being the proof of things we do not see and the conviction of their reality (faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses)."
In order to be righteous in God's eyes, we must by faith, believe Jesus has become our righteousness. We don't do it by our own works or by trying to feel righteous. We must by faith, believe that God has made us righteous in Jesus. Can you see the difference between what we've been taught by men and what the Father has already done for us by Grace and Truth, through Jesus Christ? This is the "rest" we're to enter into. The striving to enter in, comes by overcoming the sense that try telling us we're not righteous and the faith that says God's Word is more True than how we feel. This is walking in the Spirit and not the flesh, according to Romans 8:1-2 (Amplified) which says, "Therefore, there is no condemnation to those who walk not in the flesh but in the Spirit."
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