{"id":47349,"date":"2014-09-05T07:49:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T11:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=47349"},"modified":"2014-09-08T08:57:32","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T12:57:32","slug":"faithbelief-the-fuel-for-action-on-our-part-and-gods-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2014\/09\/05\/faithbelief-the-fuel-for-action-on-our-part-and-gods-part\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith\/belief — the fuel for action (on our part and God’s part)"},"content":{"rendered":"

From DSC:<\/em><\/span>
\nHere are two really interesting pieces of scripture.\u00a0 Seldomly do I read where the LORD Himself<\/em> is amazed by something.\u00a0 But note His<\/em> being amazed in these cases — and they both involve the topic of faith<\/strong> (one on the negative side of things and one on the positive side of things; emphasis mine<\/em>):<\/span><\/p>\n

Mark 6:4-6<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

4\u00a0<\/sup>Jesus said to them, \u201cA prophet is not without honor except in his own town, among his relatives and in his own home.\u201d<\/span><\/span> 5\u00a0<\/sup>He could not do any miracles there<\/strong>, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them.<\/span><\/span> 6\u00a0<\/sup>He was amazed at their lack of faith.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Luke 7:8-10<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

8 For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, \u2018Go,\u2019 and he goes; and that one, \u2018Come,\u2019 and he comes. I say to my servant, \u2018Do this,\u2019 and he does it.\u201d<\/p>\n

9 When Jesus heard this, he was amazed at him,<\/span><\/strong> and turning to the crowd following him, he said, \u201cI tell you, I have not found such great faith<\/strong> even in Israel<\/span>.\u201d 10 Then the men who had been sent returned to the house and found the servant well.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Other examples from scripture:<\/em><\/p>\n

Hebrews 11:1<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.<\/span><\/p>\n

Galatians 3:5<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

So again I ask, does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard<\/strong>?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Luke 17:19<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Then he said to him, \u201cRise and go; your faith has made you well.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Mark 5:24-34<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

A large crowd followed and pressed around him.<\/span> 25\u00a0<\/sup>And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years.<\/span> 26\u00a0<\/sup>She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse.<\/span> 27\u00a0<\/sup>When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak,<\/span> 28\u00a0<\/sup>because she thought, \u201cIf I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.\u201d<\/span> 29\u00a0<\/sup>Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.<\/span><\/p>\n

30\u00a0<\/sup>At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him<\/strong><\/span>. He turned around in the crowd and asked, \u201cWho touched my clothes?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

31\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cYou see the people crowding against you,\u201d his disciples answered, \u201cand yet you can ask, \u2018Who touched me?\u2019<\/span> \u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

32\u00a0<\/sup>But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it.<\/span> 33\u00a0<\/sup>Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth.<\/span> 34\u00a0<\/sup>He said to her, \u201cDaughter, your faith has healed you.<\/strong> <\/span>Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Luke 18:42-43<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

42\u00a0<\/sup>Jesus said to him, \u201cReceive your sight; your faith has healed you.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span> 43\u00a0<\/sup>Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus, praising God. When all the people saw it, they also praised God.<\/span><\/p>\n

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From DSC: Here are two really interesting pieces of scripture.\u00a0 Seldomly do I read where the LORD Himself is amazed by something.\u00a0 But note His being amazed in these cases — and they both involve the topic of faith (one on the negative side of things and one on the positive side of things; emphasis […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,95,500,248,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-global-globalization","category-hearts-matters-of-the-heart","category-relationships","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47349"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47401,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47349\/revisions\/47401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}