Energized Faith

Love: The Power Behind Faith and Hope

Mark 11:22 NKJV
So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God.

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

1 Thessalonians 1:2–3 NKJV
We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers, 3 remembering without ceasing your work of faith, labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father,

Philemon 1:5 NKJV
hearing of your love and faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints,

Colossians 1:4-5 NKJV
since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of your love for all the saints; 5 because of the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,

2 Thessalonians 1:3 NKJV
We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all abounds toward each other,

1. DON’T FORGET LOVE

Galatians 5:6 AMPC
For [if we are] in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith activated and energized and expressed and working through love.

Galatians 5:6 TPT
…All that matters now is living in the faith that is activated and brought to perfection by love.

Faith, activated and energized and expressed and working through love.

• Activated
• Energized
• Expressed
• Working through love

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

2. LOVE IS THE NATURE OF GOD

1 John 4:8 NKJV
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

John 13:34–35 NKJV
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

James 2:8, NKJV
If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well;

3. UNFORGIVENESS BLOCKS FAITH

Mark 11:22–26 NKJV
So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God. 23 For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. 24 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them. 25 “And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. 26 But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.”

Action step:

Practice Forgiveness Immediately.

– The moment you feel wronged, forgive. Don’t wait until you feel like it.

– Forgiveness is not a feeling, it’s a decision of faith. “If your faith isn’t working, check up on your love walk.”

– Kenneth E Hagin

4. FAITH EXPRESSED IN ACTION

James 2:17 NKJV
Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

James 2:14–17 NKJV
What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? 17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

Matthew 5:44-46 NKJV
You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, 45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Action Step:

– Confess daily: “The love of God is in me. I choose to let that love dominate me today.”
– Pray Daily:
And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment, 10 that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ, 11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. (Philippians 1:9–11 NKJV)