This I tell you, brother. You can’t have one without the other!
I know Frank Sinatra was singing about “love and marriage,” but I’m talking faith and works.
My devotional talked about faith and works.
My mom and I talked about faith and works.
Since there seemed to be a running theme to my day, I decided to post about faith and works.
Just in case you weren’t informed: Faith without works is dead.
I’m saying this because some of us rest comfortably on faith. We are content with being human prayer hand emojis. Our acts of faith include belief in Jesus Christ; prayer, praise and worship; reading God’s Word and fasting. These things are necessary for life as a believer and help to develop your relationship with God.
However, we have to combine our faith with works.
Works include acting in obedience to what you 
heard in your moments of prayer, reading God’s Word, praise and worship, and fasting. This will lead to you doing things like meeting the needs of others, instead of just praying for them. Ultimately, it will lead to you actually living out your faith so others can receive your spoken message.
God is not a blue genie, randomly granting wishes. He is not impressed with idle faith. Your relationship with God and the journey to your destiny is a partnership. You play a key role in the equation.
You have to move your feet!
Sometimes we zealously hit the ground running and God may speak to slow our pace. Other times we sit clinging to the bench, afraid to act on what we heard the Spirit say. God will orchestrate life to make the comfortable uncomfortable. Uncomfortable becomes miserable. Miserable shouldn’t have to happen… but it can turn into you being fired with no savings or plan in place, instead of you turning in the resignation and leaving with dignity. Miserable can turn into you being randomly ghosted instead of you choosing to stop hanging out and or responding to the calls and texts…
Don’t really want to continue this list because I’m praying you’ll move before misery.
Either way, action is required.
Try, try, try to separate them. It’s an illusion. Try, try, try and you will only come to this conclusion.
Faith and action.
Faith and action.
Go together like tires and traction.
This I tell you, brother, you can’t have one without the other!
Don’t steal my song. LOL!
“In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.”-James 2:17 NIV
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