On A Foundation That Brings Blessing
ENCOURAGEMENT FROM YOUR PASTOR
I read a marvelously encouraging word from James 1:25 this past week. It says, “But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.”
Can it be easy for people to be hearers of the Word but not doers? If you’re not a doer of the Word, you do not have the foundation under you as Christ described in Matthew 7.
Some try to have faith and try to believe. Some want a strong foundation, but they do not desire to do what is required to have it.
One challenge is that we must do more than listen. We must put God’s Word into action in our life!
Not doing what the Word says is the reason many people go under when the storms of life come.
Jesus said that the man who built his house on the sand is the man who heard the Word but didn’t do it. But the man who built his house on the rock is the man who heard the Word and did it.
If you’re not a doer of the Word, you don’t have any foundation under you. Smith Wigglesworth made a statement: “If you wait until you need faith to get it, you’re too late.” That’s the reason you need to study the Word for yourself daily and find out what it says.
When you consider your ‘hearing and doing’ this year, go “BEYOND” what you have done before! Put the Word into action and you will position yourself on a foundation that brings the blessing of James 1:25!
Love in Christ,
Pastor Gary & Alisa
