The eWORD – Believing is Power
3 July 2011 @ S T C / Galilee
Dr Stanley L Scott
Introduction: Your BELIEF SYSTEM is at the heart of all of you life. Where you were, where you are and where you will be! Your BELIEF SYSTEM is the POWER source for everything ahead of you!
Today’s goal is to challenge you to refresh your attitude about your BELIEF SYSTEM!
I want to encourage you to tap into, harness, get a handle on the POWER that is in your BELIEF SYSTEM and use it to make your life better!
The Word of God is filled with references to Believe, believing, belief. Those places can provide strength for our times of MEDITATION.
Definition: Webster’s1828 Dictionary Definition
BELIE’VE, v.t. To credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of something upon the declaration of another, or upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by other circumstances, than personal knowledge. When we believe upon the authority of another, we always put confidence in his veracity.
When we believe upon the authority of reasoning, arguments, or a concurrence of facts and circumstances, we rest our conclusions upon their strength or probability, their agreement with our own experience, &c.
2. To expect or hope with confidence; to trust.
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Ps.27.
BELIE’VE, v.i. To have a firm persuasion of any thing. In some cases, to have full persuasion, approaching to certainty; in others, more doubt is implied. It is often followed by in or on, especially in the scriptures. To believe in, is to hold as the object of faith. “Ye believe in God, believe also in me.” John 14. To believe on, is to trust, to place full confidence in, to rest upon with faith.
Main Text: Romans 10:8-10
8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
We believe that we are saved without “normal proof”. We receive and rest in salvation because we DECIDE to believe.
Teaching point: Everything in the promises from God to us can be received and manifested in the same way! We DECIDE to believe.
Action point: When you believe, then it is required that you confess and say with your mouth what you believe. SAY it until YOU believe it in YOUR heart.
Determination point: Everyday make some kind of action, movement, effort, that reflects what you BELIEVE. “Do Something”!!!
Support Text: Mark 9:24
And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.
(KJV)
If and only if after YOU have done ALL that you can do…God is still there to keep you connected and expecting and believing.
TRUST HIM!!!