How easily Satan can trick us into getting things backwards, making us cry
out at God in frustration, "What's wrong? Why isn't anything happening?" All
the while the problem is in us.

One good example involves the power of God being released through you. Are
you totally baffled as to why this isn't happening? More than one person has
said, "I don't understand why God isn't using me. I have the faith to work
His works, but not the power."

There can be a number of reasons, but one of them could be that you've
gotten God's order backwards. Faith is a fact, but faith is an act. It is
after you express your faith in a step of action that the power flows - not
before. Many of us are waiting for the power to come first, before we step
out, but it will never come. It is action that releases the power, not
sitting home thinking about our faith.

As the book of James emphasizes, just saying, "Goodbye. Keep warm. I have
faith that God will feed and heal you." does nothing. But when you act on
your faith, miracles happen! Then, "...God who by his mighty power at work
within us is able to do far more than we would ever dare to ask or even
dream of - infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, or
hopes" Ephesians 3:20.

Let us take a new look at the whole issue of faith and become emboldened.
Let us Start acting on the faith we have and step-by-step the power will
flow.

Let us pray
Heavenly Father, I praise You for the power with which You desire to work in
and through me. Forgive me for not acting in faith so that it might be
released. Show me the hungry, lonely, sick or depressed and direct my paths
as I move out in faith to minister to them. I ask You to release Your power
in my life in Jesus' Name, Amen.
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