What we believe is critical for the direction of our lives and how God can bless us.

What we believe is critical for the direction of our lives and how God can bless us.

This is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.  

1 John 5:4 ESV

If you believe you are defeated, or you believe you will win, either way, you are right. The promises of God are not automatically fulfilled in our lives. They require us to believe and to act upon our faith. Christians miss out on God’s blessings because they don't know or won’t believe God's Word. 

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. 

Hosea 4:6 ESV 

And he marvelled because of their unbelief. And (therefore) he went about among the villages teaching.  

Mark 6:6 ESV

After raising a young girl from the dead, Jesus came to his own hometown. But Jesus “could do no mighty miracle” in his hometown. Not that Jesus WOULD not do a mighty miracle; he COULD NOT do any mighty miracle! In Mark 6:6 it says; “Jesus marvelled because of their unbelief.”

Jesus responded to unbelief by going 'around the villages teaching'. Christians are too often looking for a quick fix for their problems, when what they really need to address is their own beliefs. Jesus’ answer to people's problems was to change what they believed. What we believe is important because it can and will change the course of our lives.

If what the people in Jesus’ own town effected how God could move in their life, then what we believe will effect how God can move in our lives. If Jesus’ answer was to teach, then  good teaching must at least be part of the cure to unbelief.