Faith Home Runs of the Bible #2.....deno......share freely.

        When Christ was on earth in the power of the Spirit of the Lord, some people believed big, some believed a little. Those that believed big hit healing home runs, miracle home runs, tax paying financial home runs, needs met home runs, big catches, big profits, even resurrection home runs, and these big believers of great faith made the book called the bible. Others who believed little or doubted much seldom received unless Jesus had compassion on them. But it is very evident to us all that we cannot always in all situations count solely on the Lords compassion concerning our needs or situations. Look at the world and some of our personal life's history and this glaring truth is plain to see though this rough truth is hard for many to face its glaring fact. God responds mostly to faith and not only by needs.
       If needs themselves moved God to the full then there would not be a human soul in hell, nor  any sickness or starving homeless people, nor disasters, nor tears of sorrow. But the sobering truth is God is moved by faith. He even knows all our needs but He expects us to ask Him for them, for those needs and to do so asking Him in faith believing we receive.              .......Personally facing this truth revealed to me made me cry deeply. I had come to see this truth glaring at us all in the scriptures. Such truth even reaches the realms for some of the cause of the words of the Lord where He said, for this cause there shall be weeping and in the extreme case gnashing of teeth.
       Listen carefully.  People need to be saved, we all know and agree with this truth. We also know that that need was totally supplied and met by Jesus Christ atoning blood, death and resurrection. But because of peoples unbelief they enter not into the salvation of the Lord. They had that great need. They desperately need to be saved from the fires of hell. And we know that that so great a salvation need was fully met and fully offered them thru the gospel. But people in unbelief scorned the blood of Christ and turned away doubting all and there was nothing all the saving redeeming power of God in Christ could do for them though He willed them all His peace, and good will and His eternal salvation to the uttermost.
      Evenso there comes also a time brothers and sisters when the Father expects His own (Redeemed & Saved) new born babes to eventually start their faith crawling, then later He expects them to advance to the child steps of faith walking. Then the time comes where God wants us to grow so much in faiths believing and faiths talking and that we become strong in faith to run our race before the world believing strongly on the name of Jesus Christ His Son thru the work of faith with power and confidence with holiness. For the Lord our God is Holy. 
      But though all this is true, even greater than the strongest of faith and greater than the most living sure hope is unwavering unquenchable ever enduring love that shows no respect of persons after the flesh nor after anything physical, but loves and forgives all the same un-endingly.
       It is written that Abraham believed God and that Abraham was STRONG IN FAITH and His faith glorified God.......Does our faith which works by love glorify God more that Abrahams faith did ?...It should. Abraham did not have abounding grace as we do. Nor was He filled with power from on High as we are in Christ.....Nor yet was his heart yet filled with the love of God as ours is In Christ thru Christ in us.....Let us press onward toward the mark of the High Calling given us all in Christ Jesus. Strong faith, Blessed Assurance, Never ending love........deno.