The Word to Wisdom

Faith that gets Results Part 3

Our true Christian Faith is always connected to love.
Faith does not stand alone.  
Faith is fueled by love.
Love drives faith.
Faith is prosperous and effective by love.
This is Agape’ love, God’s love.  We’re not talking about human love.
Human love can actually get in the way of faith due to feelings and emotions of fear.

Verses that are good to have on hand while listening:

1 Corinthians 13:6-7
Love …rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Galatians 5:6
For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision means any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which works by (or through) love.

Galatians 5:22 NASB
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith (faithfulness), gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

1 Corinthians 13:13 NKJV
And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13:2 …and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

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Take 3 with John - more on faith that gets results

Last week on The Word to Wisdom full episode we spoke of faith being connected to God's Word.  This week on this 3 minute episode I want to talk just a little about faith being connected with God's love too. 

This is just a small peek into our full podcast episode coming up next, where we will continue to talk about Faith that gets results, in greater detail, and how God's love plays a major roll in our faith.

If you haven't heard Part 1 or 2 of this teaching, please feel free to go back and listen to them. This has been an amazing teaching and blessing to understand our faith much more clearly.  

I look forward to seeing you on the next episode!

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Faith that gets results - Part 2

Faith is always connected to God's Word.  

(Isaiah 53:4-6) 
4. Surely our griefs He Himself bore,
And our sorrows He carried;
Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten of God, and afflicted.

5. But He was pierced through for our transgressions,
He was crushed for our iniquities;
The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him,
And by His scourging we are healed.

6. All of us like sheep have gone astray,
Each of us has turned to his own way;
But the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all
To fall on Him.

(1 Peter 2:24) 
who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed. (From Isaiah 53:5)

Habakkuk 2:4
Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him:
but the just shall live by his faith.

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On this midweek episode we're continuing to talk about faith.
Faith is always connected to God's Word. 
 
Please listen to our first episode in this series,
Faith that gets results here: Faith that gets results

Verse to have on hand for today's short message:
Romans 10:17
So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

 

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Faith that gets results

Foundational concepts of faith.
 
Habakkuk 2:4
Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him:
but the just shall live by his faith.

Hebrews 11:1  KJV. Definition of faith.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Hebrews 11:1 NASB
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Romans 12:3 NASB. Measure of faith. 
For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.

Galatians 5:6. KJV.   Faith works by love. 
For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth (means or has the power to do)  any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

Galatians 5:6  NASB
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love.

Faith is not a feeling.  Your feelings won't always agree with your faith.  

Main verse
Hebrews 11:6  KJV
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is,    (powerful, willing, faithful, listening, loving … etc)  and (believes) that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

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Take 3 with John Episode 6

In this Take 3 with John episode, we want to remind you that we are changing our podcast name from “The Sower’s Seeds” to “The Word to Wisdom”

We’ll be changing it before our next weekend episode. 

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Exciting News:  we are changing the name of our podcast from:
 “The Sower’s Seeds”  to “The Word to Wisdom”

This will probably happen next weekend. 

We are very excited about the new name, and we will share in our midweek episode why we're making the change and more details.

Be assured that the only thing changing is the name and logo, but not our message or content.  That will remain the same!

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Get Wisdom Get Understanding

Verses to have on hand while listening: 

Proverbs 4:5-7

Proverbs 4:5-7 (NKJV)
Get wisdom! Get understanding!
Do not forget, nor turn away from the words of my mouth.
Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you;
Love her, and she will keep you.
Wisdom is the principal thing;        Beginning, choice part, first, chief, first fruits
Therefore get wisdom.
And in all your getting, get understanding.


Proverbs 4:5-7 (NASB)
Acquire wisdom! Acquire understanding!
Do not forget nor turn away from the words of my mouth.
“Do not forsake her, and she will guard you;
Love her, and she will watch over you.
“The beginning of wisdom is: Acquire wisdom;
And with all your acquiring, get understanding.

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Take 3 with John Episode 5

Isaiah 53:4
Surely He has borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten by God, and afflicted.

Mathew 11:28-30
"Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

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Join us for our 75th Episode with John & Lisa!

This message highlights four of the most important scripture verses and concepts we have covered since we started podcasting.

1.  Mark 4:20 
And those are the ones on whom seed was sown on the good soil; and they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.”

2.  Mark 4:13 
And He said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How will you understand all the parables?”

3.  John 6:63 (NKJV)
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.

4.  Proverbs 4:7 (NKJV)
Wisdom is the principal thing;
Therefore get wisdom.
And in all your getting, get understanding.

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The Resurrection of Jesus

Have a blessed day today as you listen to this beautiful account of the most powerful event in history...  the resurrection of Jesus three days after dying on the cross for all of us.

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Our scripture for this episode is: John 20: 1-18 (NKJV)

Now the first day of the week Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. Then she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him.”

Peter therefore went out, and the other disciple, and were going to the tomb. So they both ran together, and the other disciple outran Peter and came to the tomb first. And he, stooping down and looking in, saw the linen cloths lying there; yet he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb; and he saw the linen cloths lying there, and the handkerchief that had been around His head, not lying with the linen cloths, but folded together in a place by itself. Then the other disciple, who came to the tomb first, went in also; and he saw and believed. For as yet they did not know the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead. Then the disciples went away again to their own homes.

But Mary stood outside by the tomb weeping, and as she wept she stooped down and looked into the tomb. And she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. 

Then they said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?”
She said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him.”

Now when she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, and did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?”

She, supposing Him to be the gardener, said to Him, “Sir, if You have carried Him away, tell me where You have laid Him, and I will take Him away.”

Jesus said to her, “Mary!”
She turned and said to Him, “Rabboni!” (which is to say, Teacher).

Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.’ ”

Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that He had spoken these things to her.

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