Andrew Wommack, from Colorado
Springs, made the following comments on his worldwide Daystar TV program which
is on at 7:30 AM CST in Oklahoma City.
On Sep 9, 2011, “You have all the faith in you – you don’t need any
more.” And on Oct 4, 2011, “Faith is your
positive response to what God has already
done by grace, which is unmerited, undeserved and unearned.” God has not already done anything by grace because grace is the work of the
Spirit of God in our hearts and that only happens when we by faith receive God’s
Words into our hearts.
First, In 2 Thessalonians 1:3 the Apostle Paul
thanks God for their growing faith, “We
are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that
your faith growth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward
each other aboundeth.” Also, faith
comes through us hearing God’s Word, if, or when we receive His Word into our
hearts. Therefore, we must be studying
and praying to receive more of God’s Word into our hearts to grow in
faith. Romans 10:17 states, “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by
the Word of God.”
Hearing has the root of “heeding”
as stated in Psalms 119:9, “Wherewithal
shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking “heed” thereto according to thy
Word.” When we hear God’s Word, we must take heed to God’s Word by choosing
to receive His Word into our hearts, not just knowing it intellectually in our
heads. Jesus says in John 6:63, “…the Words that I speak unto
you, they are Spirit, and they are life.”
Therefore, when we choose to receive God’s Words into our hearts, we are
receiving Jesus’ Spirit, the Spirit of Christ who is the Living Word creator of
the Universe, into our hearts to faith. We
grow in faith by receiving more of the Spirit of God’s Words into our hearts,
and to receive more we must make the choice to perform whatever action required
on our part to study, seek, hear and receive more of His Words into our hearts
to receive more faith which comes from His Words.
Once we have chosen to
receive God’s Words into our hearts, when the Words enter our hearts and begin
to work in us, we call that action a work of Grace. Grace is the work of the Spirit of Christ,
the Living Word of God, in our hearts to first create in us the new heart at
salvation when we first receive Him in our hearts, and then grace, the work of
the Spirit in our hearts, helps us grow as we receive more of God’s Word by
faith into our hearts as we walk with the Lord.
Grace may be undeserved and unmerited,
but there is something we must do to receive grace: We must choose to receive
God’s Words into our hearts by faith.
Faith describes the positive receiving of God’s Word into our
heart. When the Spirit of God’s Word,
Christ, enters our hearts, the work of the Spirit in our hearts is called grace.
Ephesians 2:8 states, “For by grace are we saved through faith; and that
not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.”
When we hear God’s Words of the gospel and then choose to receive the
Words of salvation into our hearts, we have received the Spirit of the Words by
faith into our hearts to perform the work of grace in us for salvation: our forgiveness,
new heart and adoption into the family as a child of God. Hebrews
4:2 states, “For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the
Word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that
heard it.” When a person hears any
of God’s Word, there is an automatic required response to either accept it or
reject it. There is no in between or
partial acceptance. If it is not
accepted exactly as God has stated, then instead of faith from God’s Word, the
person will be in unbelief, which is an evil heart of rejecting God’s Word like
the Children of Israel in Hebrews 3:12-19.
Faith only comes when we respond
positively to His pure Word with no changes.
Then when the Word comes into our hearts “it”, Christ the Living Word,
performs the work of grace in our hearts to help us fulfill the requirements of
the Word that God spoke to us.
We must seek to grow in faith
by receiving more of God’s Word into our hearts by study and fellowship with
God in our daily lives.
Grace is always the automatic
work of the Spirit of the Words of God that we receive into our hearts by our choice
to faith. We choose to accept His Words
to faith in our hearts and then the Words in our hearts produce the work of
grace in us.
When we choose to accept in
our hearts to faith that we are a sinner, that Christ is the answer for our
sin, and we humble ourselves and call our to Jesus for forgiveness, then Jesus
will send His Living Word, Christ, into our hearts to produce the work of grace
in our hearts for salvation. We are
saved by the work of grace in our hearts as a result of us accepting and receiving
the Words of the gospel by faith.
For more information watch a
couple of my videos about faith and grace.
Have a blessed day, Richard Hardin
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