He therefore that ministers to you the Spirit and performs miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Galatians 3:5.
Nimes 27-11-20

If a child of God walks in the spirit and is filled with the spirit, it is not possible for any enchantment or divination to prosper against him even though we found the apostle expressed fear that the brethren at Galatia have been bewitched from obeying the truth. From this very epistle to the Galatians, we also found out that the Apostle Paul called the brethren my little children of whom I travail in pain again until Christ be formed in you to remind them of his love and spiritual responsibility over them as a father who has begotten them through the gospel! 1 Corinthians 4:15. There are a lots of spiritual concerns and uncertainties surrounding this church that has once began in the spirit, but are now declining from the life and love in the spirit which is very alarming as to the danger of falling away from grace. Colossians 1:8. Is this not the purpose and goal of the ministerial calling of the true ministers of the spirit and not of the letter (2 Corinthians 3:6), that they should to labor for the perfection of saints, until we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ? Ephesians 4:12-13.
There is a great and urgent desire in the beloved Apostle to visit and see his beloved children at Galatia to remind them once again of the differences between the letter of the law and the spirit of faith by which they were saved, and of which they must hold onto in a good conscience (1 Timothy 1:19) lest they shipwreck their faith in their walk with God. Obviously, the faith of the brothers and sisters at Galatia church has begun to sink: their fleshly behaviors, visual and carnal reasoning in Christ (howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain. Galatians 4:8-11) are giving second thoughts of their salvation in the heart of the Apostle Paul to the extent of addressing  them (O you foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? This only would I learn of you, received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Galatians 3:1-2) in a forceful, passionate, or intense manner to know if they have suffered so many things so far by returning to walk  in the oldness of the letter and not in the newness of life which is by faith in Christ Jesus? Romans 7:6. Galatians 2:20. He further desired to know from them if they think it is spiritually wise and eternally profitable for them to have begun in the spirit and to be made perfect in the flesh and in it’s unprofitableness thereof – it is the spirit that quickens or gives life, the flesh profits nothing. John 6:63.
Now, he reminds them according to the text before us this morning of God’s key (which is their faith in Christ Jesus)  to the salvation they received, and to other supernatural miracles, signs and wonders performed in their midst while he was with them to testify of the grace of God preached with power with signs and wonders among them because of their faith in the resurrected Christ; but not by the hearing of law as they desire to cover their faces once again with the veil which is already done away in Christ Jesus. 2 Corinthians 3:14. Note: except we live and walk continually in the spirit against the works of the flesh (against such there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23) and the shameful fruit of unrighteous life it’s producing, we are not walking in the glorious law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus which has made us free from the law of sin and death received by Moses at Sinai. This means that we are not a good student of our schoolmaster (but before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise. Galatians 3: 23-29) that taught and brought us to Christ by derailing out of the track of grace and seek to be justified by the law: knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. Romans 3:20. Galatians 2:16.
Before Jesus came to show us the Father, God has been a preacher. He once preached life and death to Adam and Eve in the Garden before their fall and expulsion. He once preached common sense and repentance to Cain before his final decision to murder his brother – Abel. Today, he continues to teach all your children, so that their peace can be great before him. Isaiah 54:13. He also preached faith to Abraham, surely, whatever he bid us to do is an opportunity of grace to prove our faithfulness before him who charges his angels with folly and put no trust in his servants: how much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth? Job 4:18-19.
When God called Abraham out to follow him, he preached and taught him how to live and walk by faith (and the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, in thee shall all nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect: because the law works wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. Therefore it is of faith that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all. Galatians 3:8-9.Romans 4:14-16) which is called the faith God’s elects (Titus 1:1) ever before Moses was born or ever before he was given the law at Sinai. This is the precious and holy faith once delivered unto the saints to contend on earth for heaven (Jude 1:3): to defend it through the preaching of the gospel by which we are saved (1 Peter 1:25): to walk and live therein everyday in Christ Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:7); to rejoice with joy unspeakable full of glory in hope of the hope set before us in heaven as the fruit and testimony of our faith in God. We are called to learn from Abraham’s life and faith, walking after the example of the steps of his faith (Isaiah 51:1-2) by which he was called the friend of God – by the reason of which God sworn that the whole earth shall be blessed in him – by the which he is called the father of faith.
From the examples or steps of Abraham’s faith, there are five principles and characteristics features of faith we cannot ignore but to apply, if we are to please God who is not possible to please without faith. To this, apostle Paul wrote to the church at Thessalonians that his rest of mind and the fullness of his peace and joy in Christ depends on the steadfast faith of the Thessalonians believers in the Lord: that his desire is to come and see them that he might help them to fill up whatever is deficient or lacking in their faith to make it properly effective and acceptable before God: that the extent to which he can help them in the Lord depends on the measure of what their faith can receive: therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith: for now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God; night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith? 1 Thessalonians 3:7-10.  
From the account of St. Mark gospel chapter 9, Verses 16-29, we are given the narration of the man which took his dumb son to the disciples of Jesus for help – healing, but they could not cast out the demon due to insufficiency of spiritual fullness in the power of the Holy Spirit caused by their life of constant eating and drinking because they thought they have the bridegroom with them (and the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they come and say unto him, why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not? And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bride chamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days. Mark 2:18-20) which has caused spiritual blunder of poor judgment contrary to the discipline spiritual lifestyle of constant fasting and praying of at least thrice in the week if our righteousness should exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees (Matthew 5:20. Luke 18: 1-12) required to equip, prepare and empower them for spiritual walk and life, services and ministering to the need of the people. Is not the same spiritual blunder and error of lifestyles many have put themselves today because they think Christ has done all and it was already finished on the cross, why should they fast? The New testament fast is not the annual forty days lent the Pharissiacal church members are observing today with a lots of the publicity, whereas fasting is an act to be done discreetly – closed lips. The only thing Jesus taught us to obeserve is the Lord’s body and blood to commemorate his sacrificial death for us on the cross. Luke 22:19. Fasting, prayer and giving are the three spiritual discipline and obligation we must engage and observe constantly for spiritual renewal, blessing and power.  When you fast…When you pray…When you give alms…this denotes an obligation to engage constantly and duty to obey.
At the arrival of Christ at the scene, he asked if there was any problem between the crowd and his disciples. The man then confronted the Lord with the accusation of the powerlessness of his disciples as he then challenged the Omnipotent, the wonderful God of all possibilities, might and of all power – the almighty, if he can do something for his sick and possessed child. The Lord appealed to his faith – if you can believe. If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believes. He exclaimed before the Lord in humility and desperation of his desire with all the faith in him – I believe, help thou my unbelief. In other words, the father of this child is saying, Lord, if there is anything that my faith is lacking to make this work so that my child can have a miracle of healing and deliverance, fill it up and perfect my faith that I might obtain this miracle for my son. Surely, his faith lacks the perception of God’s unlimited power, having equalled and limited Jesus declared to be the Son of God with power to his powerless and fearful disciples. Romans 1:4. Is Christ not rightly justified as the author and finisher of our faith by asking him to keep believing – if you can believe? It is evidenced that the father of the child was a man of faith, having sought for miraculous intervention for his sick child, both from the Lord’s disciples and from the master himself; otherwise, he would not be so humbled to appeal for the perfection of faith in any area where his faith might be lacking the full ingredient and requirement to make it work in order to activate the miraculous power of God. Note: not all the faithful brethren or believers are equally rewarded for their faith on earth: though faith may have all the principles and characteristics features to please God: yet, such faith can be tested to the end without present answer for relief and deliverance (and others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; of whom the world was not worthy: they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. Heb. 10:32-34.Heb. 11:36-40), so that the trial of such faith, being much more precious than of gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 1: 7.
God invites us to pray and to ask in faith – to make petition of faith, nothing wavering, but to believe that whatsoever we ask, when we pray, it shall be done or given, if we do not ask wrongly –amiss to consume it upon our lust than to glorify him, ask according to his will: (b) if we do not hid iniquity in the heart, we shall be heard to receive: (c) to forgive while praying, if we have anything against anyone. Apart from these three major hindrances to an answered prayer, the following five principles and characteristics qualities of faith, if lacking, can prevent us to fight the good fight of faith and hinders us to walk gallantly (bravely and heroic manner) in faith, able to slow down our growth in faith, and likely deprives us of the power of faith and the good reports which comes by faith.
If we make petition of faith as we must always come by faith before the throne of mercy, we must therefore (a) keep the right attitude of faith before God by over- coming anxiety, murmuring, complaining in carefulness and carnal thoughtful engagements as to how and when the request shall be granted. Faith is restful and trustful in God’s goodness and faithfulness that he will fulfill the promises of his word if we have asked according to his will. By the way, if we have asked not to consume it upon our lust, but to glorify his name and to fulfill his will, we should enter into his rest by waiting for his timely intervention and response to our petitions of faith. The children of Israel failed to demonstrate this important characteristic of faith – right emotional and mental attitude of faith before God that he was moved to swear in his wrath that they shall not enter into his rest, because they have not known his way to live by faith and not by sight. Cease from any ungodly, carnal and worldly ways and wisdom to get things done as you wait patiently and keep the ways of God in the uprightness of heart and righteousness. The scriptures recommends good attitudes of faith after the petition of faith to back up your requests with thanksgiving (Philippians 4:6-8) and to continue reminding God, and to watch in the same with thanksgiving (Colossians 4:2) whenever you remember that the petition is not yet delivered at your doorpost, knowing assuredly that God will never withhold anything good from him that walks uprightly (for the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.  O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusts in thee. Psalms 84:11-12): that your spiritual and physical parcels of blessings are on the way for delivery, it’s just the matter of time –God’s time. Delight thyself also in the Lord, and he shall grant you the desire of your heart (Psalms 37:4): crying or weeping for material blessing is unscriptural – if you have food and raiment, be content. Jacob wept in repentance for his corrupt nature to be changed at Bethel before his re-union with Esau, but not for the material blessing he already gotten by deception, lying and manipulation: this was the true blessing he wept and wrestled with God to have before he was broken and made Israel. Acts 3:26.                               
You should mourn and cry for your sins in a penitent heart for a change, but your cry to manipulate or force the hand of God to obtain what he willingly promised to give you in his own time, or to rebel and draw back from other spiritual commitments before God to whom there is no rising up (Proverbs 30:31) like the actions of the Israelites in the wilderness, when they threatened to go back to Egypt – lamented and protested that it was better for them to die in the land of Egypt than to walk with God through the wilderness for transformation and purging in holiness – they murmured, discontented and wept in self-pity for material provisions as if God is no more a good father who will give stone in the place of bread, give snake in the place of fish, and give scorpion in the place of an egg for his children’s need – they willingly refused to obey God because they don’t have enough of their lustful desire: but you know what happened to them all because of their stubborn, unbelief and rebellious heart as they were wasted and perished in the wilderness. Unlike their grandfather –Abraham who kept good attitude of faith and abound in hope of his expectation of God’s promises, that God is always good and faithful when there was nothing to hope for, but keep praising God (and being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb: he staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; and being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. Romans 4:19-22) with thanksgiving for his expected blessing which came at God’s own time – surely, the desire of the righteous shall be granted. Proverbs 10:24. Abraham never cried for the blessings than to keep reminding God of his word and promises ( and Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? Genesis 15:2), why should any cry and lament for material or financial blessings if they are walking after the example of Abraham’s faith? Hannah’s continuous weeping for her childless situation never produced the desired miracle; but her vow of faith opened the door for her miracle child –Samuel. As God sworn by himself in his great pleasure to bless and to multiply Abraham for his walk and work of faith; so likewise did he sworn in his wrath and great displeasure against his grand children never to bring them into the land they despised for their refusal to walk after the steps of Abraham’s faith. Rejoice evermore, says the scriptures. Faith rejoices in hope irrespective of what he has or has not in the fruit of the spirit – joy. This is the totality of the kingdom rule of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. Romans 14:17. Genuine faith’s attitude before God is always the same in any situation or condition of life we might found ourselves, both in our undiminished devotion before him, and in our service or ministering for his name’ sake, as well as in his expectation from us to serve one another in love: for all that we have, all that we are, and all that we hope to be are all for him.
(B) The perception of faith speaks to the power of the unlimited God. It speaks and acts according to the grandeur of the incomparable God in his heart – Alleluia for the Lord God Omnipotent reigns. How great and mighty is God to you? How great and mighty is God in your life? We see this in the very act of Abraham who foesake his father’s land and everything he was physically and emotionally attached to after after the Lord into the land he promised to show and give to him – this is the walk and life of faith. You can also see his perception (imagery thoughts) of God’s unsearchable grandeur when he was about to slay Isaac for the burnt offering demanded of him through his perception in the power of resurrection that God was able to raise him back from the dead (though I offer Isaac, I will trust him to raise him back from the dead to fulfill his unfailing promise and word that in Isaac is my legacy) because it has been promised that in Isaac shall your seed be called and he received him back alive. Genesis 21:12. Genesis 22: 1-18. Hebrews 11:17-19. Note: the limit or limitless of your perception of God’s grandeur and of his endless possibilities determines the measure and limit of personal sacrifices you are willing to offer before him (yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all. For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me. Philippians 2:17-18) which constitute or set up the strenght of your mental capacity to bear or endure whatever suffering or affliction of the gospel for his name’s sake: the total or absolute surrender you are willing to yield before him.
Was this not true in the experiences of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, when they were summoned before king Nebuchadnezzar to bow down and to worship his golden image, else they shall be thrown into the furnace of fire heated seven times hotter? Their collaborative response was triggered by their perception of God‘s grandeur and Omnipotence: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter. If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up. Daniel 3:16-18.
Bold declaration and demonstration of our perception of God’s grandeur would invites the manifestation God’s supernatural power to intervene and deliver us as was shown, declared and acted upon by David in the slaying of Goliath before the armies of Israel and before the Philistine camp: and Saul said to David, thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth. And David said unto Saul, thy servant kept his father’s sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock: and I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him. thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God. David said moreover, the Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, go, and the Lord be with thee. And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came, and drew nigh to meet David that David hastened, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth. So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.  Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled.1 Samuel 17: 33-50.
In God we boast all day long and praise his name forever (Psalms 44:8): this is the portion and inheritance of his saints – God’s mighty warriors that rejoices in his highness on earth (Isaiah 13:3), even as Moses among his saints (Psalms 106:16) in his perception of God’s grandeur overlooked any personal loss, inconveniences or disfavor from Pharaoh that he might do the will of God. He was emotionally moved to step into the defense of his Israelite brother who was seen oppressed by an Egyptian which resulted in his self – forced exiled (by faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible. Hebrews 11:24-27) by his mistaken idea that his brethren have identified him as their deliverer from their slavery and oppression in Egypt (Acts 7:25): but no, because it wasn’t time for the commencement of his ministry, they have not recognized him as yet, but his faith was strong, great and tough enough to set up a meeting with God at the burning bush for his great perception of the grandeur, blessings and power of his God for which he denounced the privileges of being a powerful Egyptian prince with all the wisdom he was taught in exchange for the wisdom, power and honor of God. Behold, God is great, and we do not know (Job 36:26), neither can the number of his years and his greatness be searched out and his understanding is infinite! Psalms 145:3.
How important is this perception of God’s grandeur should be constantly mused in our thoughts and imagination, and to speak of it continually! Job 42:2. Let your soul meditate daily and constantly in his greatness: to ascribe greatness beyond limit to our God (Deuteronomy 32:3), lest you encounter the wrath of an angel of God as Zachariah the father of John the Baptist was smitten with dumbness in the temple for his limited perception of God’s grandeur (Luke 1:17-20) , or be condemned to die untimely like the officer of the king (then Elisha said, hear ye the word of the Lord; thus says the Lord, tomorrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria. Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, behold, if the Lord would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat thereof. 2 Kings 7:1-2) was trodden under the feet by the crowd for despising the greatness of our God and limited the unlimited ability of the limitless and unlimited God. 2 Kings 7:18-20.
Abraham’s  perception of God’s grandeur by trust (faith) moved him to forsake the idols and to abandon the gods of his father’s land to follow after the living God. He was never disappointed in all his ways, but was always victorious and justified by the Omnipotent power that defended and fought for him throughout his journey in life: but their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after other gods; be it after Beelzebub the god of Ekron, or Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, or Chemosh the god of Moabites. Is there not a God in Israel that anyone of his children which are called by his name and redeemed by his blood should seek after the gods of the heathen which cannot do evil or good or deliver for whatever reason? The more you steadfastly look upon him that was pierced on the cross for you, the strongest your perception of him increases with love and faith to venture yourself for his cause – faith increases by studying and digesting the word of God, appropriating the promises for yourself, believing that whatever he has done in the past through anyone in the bible, the testimony of the scriptures can repeat itself in your life, for the scriptures cannot be broken. The saints shall judge the world, therefore shall Rehab the harlot at Jericho also shall arise in judgment to condemn many of this generation who have seen and tasted the grandeur of God in the newness of life received from Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17), but have failed to live in awe of him that ought to be feared in all godliness, righteousness and holiness. She only heard about the greatness of our God (and she said unto the men, I know that the Lord hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you. For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed. And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the Lord your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath. Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the Lord, since I have showed you kindness, that ye will also show kindness unto my father’s house, and give me a true token: and that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death. Joshua 2:9-13) and then drew the picture of his grandeur in her perception as she willingly gave herself to do the bid of the great and mighty incomparable living God, to be spared and saved from them that believed not. Was God not indeed great in her life to recompense her perception of his grandeur? Shall not God prove himself great and strong in the lives of them whose hearts are perfect towards him as he did in Rehab’s life (2 Chronicles 16:9)? For from her lineage comes the Savior of the whole world, even Christ. How great is our God? What do you think of, and says to the limitless of his greatness! Hebrews 11:31. Matthew 1:1-5.
(C) Your confession of faith would either betrays or justify you before God: by your word you shall be justified; and by your word you shall be condemned. Faith unites you to your confession, while the latter is the testimony of the strength and quality of the former. The wrong attitudes of your faith and your wrong – negative words exposes the double mindedness and the hypocrisy of your heart and belief in what God has said. I’ve heard many Christians in trouble says to me, Emmanuel; I cannot live in denial by refusing to accept the truth about something that’s happening in my life. Well, Abraham lived in denial of his situation with Sarah because he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb. Sarah was the one who failed to live in denial of her marital situation to introduce Abraham into polygamy. Confession of faith, which in order word is the word of your testimony, defines the kind of the faith (consistent, steadfast, growing, unfeigned and strong) you have before God. Your faith and the word of your mouth are conjoint and inseparable; therefore, let us hold the profession of our faith without wavering, for he is faithful that promised. Hebrews 10:26.
The Greek word translated profession from that verse is homologia and it means speaking the same thing in consent in agreement with God: so you say and declare the same thing in agreement with the word of God. The spirit of faith is the spirit of confession of what is strictly written in the word of God…..we having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak. 2 Corinthians 4:13. Your confession literally becomes the sword of the sprit because you are speaking the exact word of God to resist Satan, to re-create your situation, and to fight the good fight of faith. If your attitude and response in trials are not corresponding to the word of God, it means you are not fighting the good fight of faith, your professed religion is vain, because you must speak and do as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty. If you speak faith in God, you must walk and act accordingly, that your confession of faith and audacity of it should communicate. After David’s confession and declaration of God’s might, power and victory before the entire assemblies of soldiers from both camps, he hastened, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine and slew him. 1 Samuel 17:48. You cannot make a step backwards or run away from the battle like the armies of Israelites did out of fear before Goliath because of his height, boastings and threatening (and all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid. 1 Samuel 17:24) to expect God to give you the victory. Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you (behave and show yourselves) like men as true children of the man of war –Jehovah. Exodus 15:3. 1 Corinthians 16:13. How do you quench the violence of the fire if you choose to run away from it in your trials, have you not been choosen in the furnance of affliction? Isaiah 48:10. How can you put the armies of the enemies to flight if you don’t face the battle by faith, just as David made the Philitines armies to run away at the fall of Goliath? How shall you be made strong out of your weaknesses if you don’ stand with God who is by your side in the battle? Hebrews 11:34. Through God or with God by our side we shall do valiantly, for he it is that shall tread down our enemies. Psalms 60:12.
 (D) As previously stated, the principles and characteristics features of faith requires the evidence (s) of action to prove and validate its worth and genuineness with God. This is the work through the guidance of the Spirit of God to lead and bring individuals into certain or different works and actions of faith to effectuate and activate the fulfillment of certain and different promises and purposes of God in their lives. Romans 8:14. The works of faith and labor of love in the Lord (1 Thessalonians 1:3) should not be mistaken for your career or professional work or job life (Psalms 104:23): never be carried away by job life because God can demand you sacrifice it for his greater purpose, labour and pursuit. Isaiah 49: 4. The work of faith has to do with your prompt response and action to execute the will of God, though it may be sacrificial, costly and demands all of your time and attention. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Sees thou how faith wrought with his works and by works was faith made perfect? And the scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God. Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. Likewise also was not Rehab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way? For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. James 2:20 -26.
Faith is sensitive and sacrificial to other’s needs as reveals from the verses that precede our actual text which speaks about Abraham meeting God’s need and Rehab’s works of faith to meet God’s need in his people. What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. Yea, a man may say, thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works. James 2: 14-18.
Love that works by faith (Galatians 5:6) is practical and sacrificial in its features. It is not selfish, but accommodative and caring to take good care of his poor brethren in the household of faith. Galatians 6:10. Faith that works by love sees the need of God in his people (when I was hungry, you gave me food. Matthew 25:35-40) to meet and fulfils. Did God ever have a need? Yes, indeed! God demands that you should obey him, even as Abraham obeyed him unreservedly (Genesis 22:17-18), and as Rehab sold herself out for God’s people and purpose against her national or country’s interest to fulfils the will of God.
(E) Finally, I will speak about the strength and endurance of faith. Patience is inseparable from a good and strong faith. It is the proof of a good and genuine faith – whosoever believe shall not make haste. Isaiah 28:16. There is no hurriedness or hastiness of spirit in faith. The growth of the fruit of patience detemines the strenght of your faith, while insufficient patient can ruin your faith and make you to loose all the present and future blessings and plans of God in your life: that ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise..Hebrews 6: 12-15.
Is there a faith that is not tried or tested? Then such faith is not the faith of God’s elect. Faith is a contract of love and trust between God and man. And, as long as man will hold on to his faith and good conscience or in a pure conscience, God is faithful to keep him to the end to fulfils all the good pleasure of his will in his life according to his good pleasure and purposes, which he has proposed in himself before the foundation of the world in Christ Jesus. Temptations are allowed according to our strength and endurance of faith in God – there hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. 1 Corinthians 10:13. Failure in any of our temptations is an act of betrayal before God; but because of Christ, we are forgiven and cleanse by his blood as we go before him in confession and repentance of our sins through the intermediary and help of our faithful high priest that can be touched with the feelings of our infirmities, tempted in all points, yet without sin. I will humbly submit to us that the measure of our love for God determines the strength of our faith in him – love is strong as death. Many waters cannot quench love; neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. S.o.s: 6-7. If you can’t trust, how can’t love as it should be? If you can’t trust, you can’t believe to surrender all to him as required? Faith is trust in God and in his word: the fullness of one determines the functionality and effectiveness of the other one. The fullness of your faith determines the toughness of your mental or spiritual strength which is needed to keep you going (Acts 6:8-15: Hebrews 11:27) to endure the trials of you love, the demonsration of your loyalty before God, that you might be kept by the power of God through faith from all evil unto the end. 1Peter 1:5.