CORRESPONDING ACTIONS

CORRESPONDING ACTIONS

WEYMOUTH gives us a striking expression in James 2:14 “What good is it my brethren, if a man professes to have faith, and yet his actions do not correspond?
18th verse, “You notice that his faith was cooperating with his actions, and that by his actions his faith was perfected.”
One of the gravest mistakes that many believers make is to confess their faith in the Word, and at the same time contradict their confession by wrong actions.

A woman said to me, “I cannot understand why I did not get my healing. I have prayed and prayed. I know the Bible is true.”
I asked her, “Are you still taking medicine?”
“Oh, yes,” she said.
Then I read her this scripture that I have just quoted. Her actions did not correspond with her confession. She said she was trusting the Lord and yet her trust was in medicine and not in His Word.
We say we trust the Father for our finances, and at the same time we are worrying and fretting how we are going to pay our bills.
One minute we confess that no Word from God can ever be forfeited, that He must keep His Word with us, and that we know that He will, and the next moment we are repudiating all that we have confessed.

James tells us there must be corresponding action.
“Be ye doers of the Word, and not hearers only deluding your own selves.”
The actions of a “doer of the Word” coincide with his confession.
Jesus said, Matt. 7:24-26 “Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

“And everyone that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.”
So many who profess Christ and who declare they believe the Word from Genesis to Revelation, and they say it with a great deal of unction are not doers of the Word. They are talkers about the Word. They have mentally assented to the fact that the Word is true.
It does them no good. They are not making it their own.

When I trust in the Word with all my heart, and stop leaning upon Sense reason, stop looking to people for deliverance, then there are corresponding actions.
My actions are in perfect fellowship with my confession.
It has taken some of us r long time to have corresponding action with our confession.
Until there is corresponding action, there will be continual failing.
I may confess as loudly as I please that God is the strength of my life and at the same time tell about my weakness, my inability, and my lack of faith.
There is no corresponding action here.
I am resorting to human means rather than trusting in the Lord utterly.
That is bound to bring confusion in my spirit and weakness and failure in my life.
Let us turn resolutely to I Peter 5:7 “Casting all your anxiety upon Him for He careth for you.”
Regardless of circumstances, regardless of influences about us, let us turn every problem into His care.

Your worst enemy is yourself. It has come through Sense Knowledge that would limit you to your own ability.
The language of the Senses is: “I can’t, I haven’t the ability, I haven’t the strength, I don’t have the opportunity, I have no education, I have been limited.”
The language of faith says, “I can do all things in Him who strengtheneth me,”
Who is it that strengthens me? It is my Father God

I can do all things through Him. I cannot be conquered. I cannot be defeated.
There isn’t force enough in all the world to conquer Him who dwells in me.
Not only am I born of God, a partaker of God’s nature and life, but I have God dwelling in me, and I have the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwelling in me.
I have God’s wisdom, God’s strength, God’s ability.
I am learning how to let Him govern my intellect, letting Him think through me, use my vocal faculties. I am daring to think His thoughts after Him.
I am daring to believe that it is God who is at work within me and that He will work His own good pleasure.
I am daring to say in the presence of my old enemies: failure, weakness, want, lack of opportunity, lack of knowledge, lack of strong friends, and a thousand others, “God is my ability.”

God has made me greater than my enemies.
God has made me put my heel on the neck of weakness, of fear, of inability, and I stand and declare that whosoever believeth in Him shall not be put to shame.
I cannot be put to shame.
My weaknesses are routed.
The strength of God is mine.
The ability of God has taken me captive and I revel in this captivity.
That is Faith speaking, real corresponding action.

The Two Kinds of Faith – EW Kenyon
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