STEP 2: DO IT

March 16

STEP 2: DO IT

What good is it, my brethren, if a man professes to have faith,

and yet his actions do not correspond. . . . some one will say,

“You have faith, I have actions: prove to me your faith apart

from corresponding actions and I will prove mine to you by my

actions. . . .” You notice that his [Abraham’s] faith was co-

operating with his actions, and that by his actions his faith was

perfected. — JAMES 2:14,18,22 (Weymouth)

Step 2: Do it. It wouldn’t have done that woman with the issue

of blood any good to have said, “If I may but touch His clothes I

shall be whole,” if she hadn’t acted on what she said.

Jesus said to me in that vision, “Your actions defeat you, or

they put you over. According to your actions, you receive, or you

are kept from receiving.”

That’s important. Read it again.

The Book of James is written to believers. James said, “What

doth it profit, my brethren.” Most people think James was

writing about salvation, but he was writing to people who were

already saved, pointing out that faith without corresponding

actions won’t work. It is a great mistake to confess faith in the

Word of God and, at the same time, contradict your confession

by wrong actions. Actions must correspond with your saying

and believing in order to receive from God.

This woman said, “If I may touch but His clothes, I shall be

whole,” and then she acted on that — and she received!

Confession:

My actions line up with God’s Word. My actions put me over.

By my actions I receive from God!