The Engine – The Presidential Prayer Team

Without faith it is impossible to please him. – Hebrews 11:6

As you go to church, read the Bible, and do good deeds, do everything in faith. Faith is more than a mere acknowledgement or doing things out of tradition or habit. It is putting total confidence in God, living a life interacting with and yielded to Him.

Faith is trusting in Someone greater than yourself. When you sit on a chair you are trusting it to hold you up. You are trusting the people who designed and built the chair. You are trusting the quality of the materials. You may acknowledge “Yes, that’s a good chair,” but you are not truly trusting until you actually sit on it.

Likewise, trusting God is more than acknowledging Him. Faith means all of your decisions are based on what you perceive God’s will to be through reading and meditating on the Word, listening to Bible teaching, and prayer. It means doing what you believe He has called you to do. Faith is the engine that moves you to action.

As you pray in the new year today, commit your goals, plans, and daily activities to Him, asking for His wisdom, trusting that He will work in and through you to accomplish His will. Intercede for the United States that the Lord will accomplish His purpose, through the life of the president to the homeless on the streets. Put action to your prayers, by reaching out to the people whom God places on your heart and in your path.

Today’s Verse: Hebrews 11:6

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

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Recommended for further reading: James 2:14-26

¹⁴What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? ¹⁵If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, ¹⁶and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? ¹⁷So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

¹⁸But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. ¹⁹You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder! ²⁰Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless? ²¹Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? ²²You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works; ²³and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God. ²⁴You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. ²⁵And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? ²⁶For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.