“Now without faith it is impossible to please God, since the one who draws near to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.” Hebrews‬ ‭11:6‬ ‭CSB‬‬

Today I am going to poke on something very important for you understand, faith in God is not doing whatever you want and putting the name of Jesus on it. This is not faith, it is manipulation. It is choosing to use wrongly the name of God or to re use an Old Testament phrase, it is blaspheming the name of God. The punishment set out for those who use the name of God wrongly is clearly laid out in the Old & New Testament and it is something which we must understand.

The key point to understand on is what is true faith? It is not simply uttering something from your mouth or repeating a scripted prayer. Faith is believing in Him and then actively seeking Him in deeds because you believe. This would be a good point to again re read chapter 11 of the letter to the Hebrews. The author reminds us of what are actions of faith that demonstrate a belief in God and Jesus.

One of the biggest deceptions running riot in the “Spirit led” church movements (Pentecostal, Charismatic, Jesus movements etc) is that once you accept Jesus your life stays the same but only now you receive more blessings. Or that you just have to attend church once a week. Most accept the ways of the world in their church, from sexual intercourse outside of marriage, to people who freely utter curse words or those who openly behave in ways that are contrary to being a light in the world (for example bad business practices or not honoring their word). These behaviours which are normal in the world and in a lot of cases glorified have no space in the Body of Christ. Our faith in God will lead to us seeking Him by purifying our lives so that we may become holy just as He is holy. It is your free choice to accept sin in your life and in the congregation you choose to join.

As you are free to choose I encourage you to freely choose freedom from sin. Step away from manipulating people, leave using curse words behind and choose marriage over dating. Our faith is that Jesus will come again to judge the living and the dead. Those that have found Him and know Him will be saved. Those who do now know Him will perish into eternal punishment. Today choose to find Him and make steps to know Him, leave the ways of the world behind.