By the true power of faith we heard God speak, we saw what He had for us and we gave voice with our faith and spoke hope into our future. But had we stopped there, nothing would have happened because faith needs works to be alive. It says in James 2:17 that faith without works is dead.
It says in James 1:22-25,
“But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.”
Hearing God speak His plan to us was the first step, receiving the vision from God was the second step, then by speaking this vision out with our faith-filled words we were completing the third step. These first three steps were necessary to fulfill His purposes, but without the fourth step the vision would die and our faith for this vision would be dead.
In order to bring the vision of God into fruition, we must physically work it out with our hands.
While living in the children’s home, the Holy Spirit never told me to speak a word and the babies would be supernaturally fed and changed. I had to physically feed and change them myself. But He did tell me to speak to their sick and crippled body parts and they were made whole supernaturally. He never had me speak to the mountain of dirty laundry and say,
“Be thou cleansed and removed from here and back into the closets!”
I had to physically work that part of the ministry, but He did teach me to speak words of faith to empty closets and cupboards and they were filled with the daily provisions that we needed.
Why would I share this with you? Many people are quick to hear God, they are excited to see the vision, they talk the talk, but many are not willing to work the vision that God has given.
Working hands take and transform a vision into reality. As we can see, faith involves action. What is God asking you to do? Be a doer of the Word, activate your faith and do what He has asked of you. Perhaps you may not be able to do it all in a day, but you can start the process today.
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