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Discipling 12
Lesson 9
Walk of Faith
Concept:
A message that is stated in Habakkuk 2:4, Romans 1:17, Galatians 3:11,
and Hebrews 10:38 declares that the just shall live by
faith. Those that asked to be cleansed by the blood have
been declared just by the Father and must then live by faith. Hebrews
11:6 shows us that it is impossible to please the Lord unless we come to
Him by faith. Also Luke 18:8 shows us when the Lord returns He will be
looking for people of faith. The spiritual ingredient of faith seems to
close to the heart of the Father. He takes a whole chapter in Hebrews 11
and brags about those people who lived before us that did great exploits
with the deposit of faith that the Lord gave them. Their deposit of faith
became great faith as they exercised it in times of difficulty. Even to
the point where they were able to subdue kingdoms.
As we learn about walking by faith it will help us to have a victorious life
style. I John 5:4 calls us overcomers because we have faith. This becomes a
challenge for us to live in this promise and show a broken world that we do
not need to be broken. As we take a look at this great subject allow the
Holy Spirit to encourage your heart that you too are a person of faith.
The Lord has given us all a deposit of faith according to Romans 12:3 and
it can grow into great faith. With the Lord as our helper and our faith
expressed in Him, there is nothing that is impossible. Every giant must
fall, every mountain must be removed, every disease must bow at His name,
and all demonic strongholds must come down when the power of the word is
released.
Definitions of Terms:
* Faith: Chacah (Hebrew). Flee for protection, confide in, trust in the Lord,
find shelter, turn aside from danger, find a shadow from the heat, and a
shield to protect from objects thrown at. Psalms 36:7, Psalms 34:22
* Faith: Pistos (Greek) Faithful, trusting, confidence, trust in the promises
of God, one who believes that Jesus is the Christ is the one true God and
lives a daily life that reflects that belief. Acts 16:1
* Faith: Oligopistos (Greek) Little faith, trusting too little, faith that isn’t
developed, a faith that has not developed confidence. Luke 12:28, Matthew 8:26,
Matthew 14:31, Matthew 16:8,
* Faith: Elpis (Greek) Something dearly cherished and full of expectations
* Saving Faith: The confidence that allows us to reach out for forgiveness and
acceptance and the trust to know we have been received. This faith gets one
through the door and sealed into the Body of Christ. Ephesians 2:8-9, Hebrews
11:6, II Peter 1:1
* Operational Faith: This is the faith that we use daily to show we trust in
the Lord’s faithfulness. We speak this confidence out of our mouth because it
is something that we believe in our heart. It just isn’t speaking it out our
mouth and it just isn’t something that we believe in our heart, but it is a
combination of the two. If we are in faith, our mouth and heart will be in
agreement. Romans 10:17, I John 5:4, Mark 11:23,24, Daniel 1:32
* Gift of Faith: This is a hero’s faith. The Lord will deposit the gift of faith
by His will, which will allow us to step into an arena we never were in before.
We commonly call these signs and wonders. Something that has no explanation
except God stepped though a man and did the supernatural. Telling the sun to
stand still with the gift of faith in operation will stop the world’s processes.
The Lord is the one who gives and we don’t keep it forever. Acts 14:3, Acts
14:20, Acts 19:11,12
Hebrews 11:1 (“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence
of things not seen”)
* Now: Hence, at the present time
* Faith: Persuaded, confident, assured heart, trust, obey, to think, an inner
compelling to a higher persuasion.
* Substance: A setting or placing under, that which causes actual existence,
that which underlies all outward manifestation, material of which something is
made
* Hoped: trust, anticipated expectation, eagerly waiting
* Evidence: Something that will establish a decision, convict, or convince
* Seen: Perceived, regarded, take heed, (imagination in Ephesians 1:17 Faith
will paint a picture that can be seen with your sanctified imagination)
Scripture
Application:
1.
2. Genesis 15:6
3. Genesis 22:8-18
4. Numbers 14:9 (KJV)
5. I Samuel 17:34-37, 41-50
6. Daniel 3:17
7. Daniel 6:21, 27
8. Romans 10:17
9. Romans 14:23
10. Galatians 5:6
11. Hebrews 11:1
12. James 2:17
13. John 6:28,29
14. James 1:6
15. Matthew 8:5-13
16. Matthew 9:1-8
17. Matthew 9:18-26
18. Matthew 9:27-34
19. Mathew 15:21-28
20. Matthew 17:14-22
22. Mark 11:23,24
23. Luke 17:5,6
24. Luke 18:35-42
25. Luke 22:32
26. John 15:7,8
27. Acts 3:1-10, 16
28. Acts 6:8
29. Acts 14:8-13
30. Acts 26:18
31. Romans 1:5
32. Romans 1:17
33. Romans 4:16-20
34. Romans 5:1
35. Romans 10:6-8
36. Romans 10:17
37. II Corinthians 5:7
38. II Corinthians 10:15
39. II Corinthians 13:5
40. Galatians 2:20
41. Galatians 3:5
42. Galatians 3:22-26
43. Ephesians 4:5
44. Ephesians 6:16
45. I Thessalonians 3:5-10
46. II Thessalonians 1:3
47. I Timothy 5:12
48. Hebrews 6:12
49. Hebrews 11:3
50. Hebrews 11:4
51. Hebrews 11:5
52. Hebrews 11:7
53. Hebrews 11:8
54. Hebrews 11:11
55. Hebrews 11:17
56. Hebrews 11:22
57. Hebrews 11:23-24
58. Hebrews 11:28
59. Hebrews 11:29
60. Hebrews 11:30
61. Hebrews 11:31
62. Hebrews 11:33
63. Hebrews 12:2
64. James 2:17,18
65. James 2:22
66. I Peter 1:7
67. I Peter 5:9
68. II Peter 1:1
69. II Peter 1:5-9
70. Jude 20
71. I John 5:4
Summary:
I know that your faith has been encouraged as you have studied all of these scriptures on
faith. It shows what will happen if we will just put our confidence in God. We don’t
need plan B and C when we have God’s plan A. Faith says, we simply can rely on what the
Lord said by His word. If the Lord has said it, then that is His will for your life.
Remember the Lord is not a man that He should lie, once He speaks something out of His
mouth it is finished in His eyes. I am the one who has to believe and allow the
manifestation to happen in my circumstance. My believing doesn’t make the Word
true; it is true. The key is do I choose to be a believer. But my believing in
His promises does allow the Word to change my situation into what the Word
says. III John 2 says it the best. The verse states that I will have a
prosperous journey and be healthy person if I just meditate and speak the Word.
A successful faith walk is having a revelation of the Word of God and acting on
that revelation I have. The Lord will take care of the manifestations that I
need.
Action:
Select a “faith project” to make application of the Word of God. Take an impossible
situation and select a promise that applies. Begin to speak that promise to the
problem. Meditate the promise and don’t allow your mind to meditate on the
problem. Believe the power of the promise to change the problem and bring a
victory celebration into your life.
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