Lesson 8. The Law of Corresponding Actions of Faith. A school from “Faith and Confession” that lays an remarkably deep foundation in the Word of God. Charles Capps teaches how to activate the power of God in your life.
Faith must always be accompanied by actions. But in each individual case—whether it concerns healing, financial situations, or faith for something else—the actions are always different.
The most common mistake people make is wanting to have actions of faith as though what they confessed had already come to pass. But when they do this, they lose sight of the goal.
We have already read in Mark chapter 4 that the soil is a person's heart. Jesus said:
“The sower sows the word” (verse 14). So we know that the seed mentioned here is definitely the Word of God. There may also be other seeds and words that you and other people have sown. But Jesus tells us to sow the Word of God into our hearts. That is why confessing the Word of God is so important. Words are seeds that you sow.
The Factor of Agreement
The words you speak, even if they are not the Word of God, must agree with the Word of God because they are seeds, and whether you want it or not, you sow them. God's law of sowing and reaping always works. You cannot turn it on or off when you need to by saying, “I say all this, but I am not really sowing; I am just talking.”
James says:
If anyone among you thinks he is religious and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this person's religion is worthless. James 1:26
Such a person deceives his own heart. He deceives the soil of his heart, believing that what he says is what he wants. If you say, “I want to harvest wheat,” while planting corn, you are deceiving your heart. The ground will produce corn, not wheat, because the seed determines the harvest, not the ground. Life is in the seed.
Let us look again at what Jesus said in Mark 4. This passage shows us the balance in the concept of works of faith.
And He said: The Kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground, and sleeps and rises night and day; and the seed sprouts and grows, he himself does not know how, for the earth yields crops by itself: first the blade, then the head, then the full grain in thehead. Mark 4:26–28
Study the context before you begin to act
Jesus tells us how the Kingdom works. Faith must have works, but we need to be clear about this point. When James says that “faith without works is dead,” he is speaking about someone who needed clothing and food. James says, “If you say to him, ‘I have enough faith that God will meet your need,’ then your faith is dead,” when this is the situation in question.
The work of faith in this situation would be to give him clothing and food.
You would say, “I firmly believe that God will take care of me and meet every need I have.”
But do you give? Do you give out of your own need? Such an action would be a work of faith. The Word says, “Give, and it will be given to you…”
Someone might object: “That is all well and good, but you do not understand—I have so little myself that I cannot give as well.”
If you do not give, then you have no works of faith regarding what you say you believe. You need to give even when you are in need. Of course, you will not be able to give as much as you would if you were in abundance, but the work of faith connected with this promise would be giving. A little will be enough if you give in faith.
Here is an example of such giving and the corresponding work of faith. It concerns how Jesus fed a great multitude of people. The disciples came to Him and said:
“How can we feed all these people? We have only five loaves and two fish.”
Jesus replied, “Bring what you have.”
Taking them, Jesus gave thanks and broke the bread. Then He gave it to the disciples. Did you notice that after everyone had eaten their fill, there were still 12 full baskets left? Obviously, they had 12 baskets that they used to distribute the food. Jesus broke the bread, put it in the baskets, and told the disciples to feed the people.
There were 5,000 men, not counting women and children—possibly around 20,000 people in total. Their works of faith began with something small: they had to feed a multitude, and they did as Jesus instructed them.
Do Not Act on Someone Else’s Faith
This is what your works of faith must be based on: the Word of God and the words Jesus speaks. Sometimes people do something simply because someone else did it. They say, “So-and-so brother gave away his car and received a brand-new Cadillac in return. I’ll give away my car too, because mine is such a wreck and I really want a new one.”
But it was God who instructed that brother to give away his car to help someone in need. He acted according to the Word of God that had been spoken specifically to him. Yet sometimes we do things by imitating others.
If you give away your car based on someone else’s faith, you may receive nothing in return, because you acted not according to your own faith in the Word of God, but according to faith in people’s experiences. And you did not do it to meet someone’s need; you simply wanted a new car for yourself. The problem is not that wanting a new car is wrong. The issue is that you acted contrary to the Word of God.
Your works of faith must be based on the Word of God.
When You Speak, You Sow
Remember, in Mark, chapter 4, we read that the seed is the Word, and a person must sow it so that it can grow. Your part is to believe that everything will work out and to sow.
Keeping this in mind, let’s look at Mark 11.
Have faith in God, for truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, “Be lifted up and cast into the sea,” and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. Mark 11:23
To better understand this passage of Scripture, let’s replace the word says with the word sows. “If anyone sows to this mountain: ‘Be lifted up and cast into the sea’, and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that it will come to pass according to his words, it will be done for him—whatever he sows.”
Sometimes it helps greatly to say something in different words. We are not trying to change the Word of God; we are simply looking at it from another angle, seeing it from a different perspective.
You understand that when a farmer sows something, he will reap what he has sown. This example is very simple and clear to everyone. But people will argue with you about Jesus saying that you will have whatever you ask for. But speaking
— is also the same as sowing. And whether you believe it or not, whether you like what Jesus said or not, it remains true. You may argue with it or protest against it, but everything will work exactly this way.
Do not misunderstand me. I am not saying that everything will happen immediately after you say it, simply because you said it. In fact, you need to keep saying something for a period of time so that what you are saying can grow in the soil of your heart.
As soon as the seed enters the ground, the ground immediately receives it. But what you say will not be received until you believe what you are saying. When you truly believe it, the foundation for the result is laid. Faith in the heart is the ability to receive the Word of God. Nothing will happen until it is conceived like a child in its mother’s womb. Sometimes you have to say something again and again until you believe it. Faith comes by hearing. And this truth applies to both positive and negative confession.
The Law of Retribution
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. Gal. 6:7
A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things. Matt. 12:35
Although different words are used, in these two verses Jesus and the Apostle Paul reveal the same idea to us.
In the natural realm, we clearly understand and know that this is true. Whatever a person sows on his farm, that is what he will reap. How much more effectively does this work concerning the Word of God, because the Word of God is perfect, incorruptible, and impartial seed.
Some people will look at this and say, “That sounds too good to be true.” It would be like saying to a farmer, “You know, it sounds too good to be true that you can reap what you sowed. It can’t be true. You can’t reap what you sowed.” But you will never convince a farmer of that, because he has plenty of experience in this area.
That is exactly how it works! This is the principle, and it is God's principle. It will work for us when we simply believe what God has said instead of trying to figure out how it works.
When you are just starting out, you may not fully understand this principle. Accept what you have already understood, and be obedient in doing what God says to do. Act on Jesus’ words. “If anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’” (Mark 11:23). “They said to this fig tree: ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea’” (Luke 17:6). These declarations are seeds. Nothing happened when you first began declaring them. The fig tree remained where it was, and the mountain did not move; you still had certain problems. But Jesus said that they would obey your words filled with faith. Your faith-filled words will move mountains.
Someone may say, “You cannot speak this way until you see what you are saying come to pass.”
In that case, there is no need for your faith. It would be like a farmer saying:
“As soon as I have a harvest, then I will sow.”
But the point is that until he sows, he will have nothing to harvest.
Blinding Deception
Until you begin teaching about the principles of the Word of God, you cannot imagine how the devil can deceive and blind people's minds. I am talking about religious people. I am talking about Christians filled with the Spirit of God. They may even become angry because you believe so strongly
in the Word of God, because their minds have been blinded and closed to the revelation of God's truth.
They say things like: “You are trying to live in some imaginary world. How can you confess all these things? You probably think you are like God.”
No, I am simply a partaker of the divine nature, and I have the ability to live according to divine principles and laws.
The point is that every time we say something, we sow. But this will not happen simply because you have said it once or a hundred times. Hearing entails the growth of faith. And declaration is one component of this principle. What you say is received by you when you believe it and do not doubt in your heart.
When some people first say something about their finances, they do not actually believe what they are saying. Sometimes businesspeople say, “We will go bankrupt. I know for sure that we will go bankrupt.”
When they said it for the first time, they did not believe what they were saying; but if they continue in the same vein, they will eventually believe what they are saying. And so they will sow seeds of poverty.
Do not let your mouth deceive your heart
Many people cannot understand how their lives turned into such a mess, but if I talk with them for 15 minutes, I immediately understand in my spirit why they ended up in such a situation. I also know in my spirit that I cannot always tell them the reason, because they will not accept it; they will not believe that this is their problem.
In most cases, their main problem was their tongue and what they were saying. Their mouths deceived their hearts. They were sowing what they did not actually want to sow. They prayed for what they did not want, and fear filled them. Fear replaced faith and caused everything they did not want to come to pass.
Fear is a destructive force; it can even be called faith in the devil. Paul says that fear does not come from God.
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and love and self-control. 2 Tim. 1:7
Let me repeat these truths once again. We sow what we say. Whatever we sow, we will certainly reap. Mark 11:23 reveals this principle to us; then the Apostle Paul speaks about it in slightly different words in Galatians, chapter 6.
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. Gal. 6:7
This passage of Scripture reiterates Mark 11:23 and speaks of the same truth. Let me paraphrase this verse so that you can see it from another perspective: “Do not be deceived: God cannot be talked around. Whatever a person says, that is what he will reap.”
You will reap what you have sown. That is what I am talking about.
I really haven’t forgotten the subject of this book; I just got a little sidetracked.
Let’s return to Scripture to continue talking about balance in matters of faith.
For the earth yields crops by itself: first the blade, then the head, then the full grain in the head. But when the grain ripens, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come. Mark 4:28–29
The earth produces fruit by itself—the human heart, or spirit, bears fruit on its own. The words you speak fall into the soil of your heart. Your spirit, or heart, will act in accordance with your words. You connect with God through your spirit. Even when you sleep, what you have said continues to cause your spirit to act in agreement with your words.
After sowing, the farmer goes to bed, then gets up, and the earth produces fruit by itself. The same is true for you. The Kingdom within you is the seed you sowed when you spoke the words. God wants us to sow words like these:
“My God shall supply every need of mine according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. I have abundance, not lack, because I give, and it is given to me—good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over.” Thus, you speak and sow seeds concerning your finances. And while you sleep, the principle of sowing continues to work. Your spirit never sleeps, and you are sowing eternal, incorruptible seed.
The Lamp of the Lord
The spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all the inner depths of his heart (Proverbs 20:27). A person’s spirit is like a light bulb that God uses to illuminate you. And while you sleep, your spirit remains in contact with God; it continues to search out God’s wisdom to find the right way for the promise—the seed you sowed—to be fulfilled in your life.
Some people think that God will simply start pouring money straight down from heaven. But that is not God’s method. God may send a profitable opportunity into your life or prompt someone to give you money. But never set your heart specifically on such an outcome. You should not simply wait for checks, checking the mail every time. God may choose one of many ways to fulfill the promise in your life.
It could be a business deal or a land investment; it could be anything, including something you do not expect at all.
God always fulfills His promises, but it does not always happen the way we think or expect. And while you sleep, the soil is at work, searching out God’s wisdom.
Likewise, no one knows the Spirit of God except the Spirit of God. 1 Cor. 2:11
The human spirit is the lamp of the Lord, searching all the depths of the heart, and the heart (spirit) of a person is the place where the Kingdom of God dwells.
The Spirit of God enlightens you through your spirit
…who among people knows the things of a person except the human spirit that is in him? In other words, you do not know everything about yourself or everything that is within you. But your spirit knows. The Spirit of God knows everything about God. And when your spirit comes into contact with the Spirit of God, you gain access to the source of knowledge.
Based on what you have sown in your spirit, your spirit is in contact with the Spirit of God day and night, calling forth information about how to meet all your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Your spirit receives and conceives your words—that you have abundance rather than lack. And your spirit takes corresponding action according to the words you spoke in faith. Thus, your spirit cries out to God (who is also Spirit), and through revelation, your spirit will receive information from the Spirit of God.
And after several hours, days, or months, a sprout will emerge. You will have an idea and say, “Where did I get such a thought?”
It came because of what you said (sowed). You sowed the promise into the soil of your heart. Your spirit concealed the promise you spoke, and it worked day and night to present revelation to you. The one who asks receives. The seed you sowed made demands on the soil (your heart).
Production Center
The soil, which is the heart or human spirit, was created to produce. According to Mark chapter 4, the soil is a production center. The soil is the human heart, intended to create.
You sow the seed, go to sleep, then get up and go about your business. The answer may come while you are sleeping or driving on the highway. An idea may come very suddenly, and you will say, “Why had I never thought of this before?”
You had never thought about it before because you had not sown that seed, and your spirit had not cried out to the Spirit of God for Him to grant revelation. God can fill you with ideas through revelations that will meet all your needs according to the riches of the glory of God by Christ Jesus. And these ideas fill your spirit through the Spirit of God.
Some people criticize this kind of teaching because they do not understand it. They do not understand how the Spirit of God works together with the human spirit. Such people think that you are trying to force God to do what He promised by quoting His promises. But that is not the case; we are simply sowing seed that anticipates a harvest of promises. This method is not human; it is God’s.
A Complete Checkup
Those who criticize you do not need your criticism; they need your prayers. They need to be taught. And you need to have the right attitude toward them. As someone
said: “From time to time, it is worth examining yourself to avoid becoming hardened in your attitude.”
People criticize only because they do not understand something. And you should watch yourself so that you do not have the wrong attitude toward them. Pray for them and teach them, but do not criticize them.
God’s Perfect Provision
As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease. Genesis 8:22
This is the law of sowing and reaping established by God, and as long as the earth exists, it will operate. The soil will always respond appropriately to the seed that was sown. This law can also be called the law of corresponding actions. The Garden of Eden was complete provision for Adam; it contained everything necessary for his life.
In Matthew 6:9–10, Jesus tells His disciples to pray for the Kingdom of God to come and for God’s will to be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Jesus knew that this had not yet happened, but He instructed His disciples to pray for it to happen. I think the idea Jesus wanted to convey to us was this: “God’s will can be done on earth as it is in heaven when the Kingdom of God comes.”
This prayer was partially fulfilled on the day of Pentecost. The Kingdom of God that came on that day was established in the hearts of people who were born again. This is the Kingdom that will be in the New Jerusalem, only in a different manifestation. And the Kingdom within you has the same ability to meet your needs as the Garden of Eden met Adam’s needs. There is a garden within you. The Kingdom has been given to you; it is your garden (Luke 12:32; Luke 13:19). And this garden will produce everything you need. It will lead and guide you into God’s wisdom so that you may receive everything promised to you in the Word of God.
But you must sow the Word (seed) in this garden. God supplied the sower with seed—He gave him His Word of promise. The Word of God is the seed, and the soil is the human heart.
Actions That Correspond to Your Prayers
Thanking God that your need will be met is your act of faith. Whenever you pray, believe that you receive what you ask for.
Therefore I tell you: whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you receive it, and it will be yours. Mark 11:24
When you pray, watch what you pray for. Do not pray about problems, because that is exactly what you will receive, since you will have more faith in the problems than in the answers to your prayers. Pray for what you desire. What you desire is the answer to your prayer. Abundance is the answer to lack, so pray for abundance, not lack.
And when you pray, believe. Believe in what you pray for. Do not wait for what you desire to come to pass in order to believe. Believe now, and you will receive what you believe later.
You know that you have not yet received the answer to your prayer, and you are not pretending that it has already happened. But in the spiritual realm, if you have received it by faith, you already have the answer, although in the natural world you do not yet have what you asked for. But Jesus said that it will be yours.
Falsehood is not an act of faith
Do not try to convince other people that you already have what you asked for. They do not need to believe it; you do. Some people think that an act of faith is lying about something you do not yet have while confessing that you do: “I have a new car. You should see it. It’s in my garage.”
If you knowingly deceive someone, making them believe that you have something you do not actually have, then you are lying to that person. But if they only heard you confessing the Word of God and assumed that you already had what you were confessing, then this cannot be considered a lie. They simply heard you call “those things which do not exist as though they did.” Abraham did the same.
Do not try to convince someone that you have what you confessed when in fact you do not yet have it; this cannot be called an act of faith—it is called lying. Thanking God would be an act of faith: “Thank You, Father; I believe that I receive what I asked for.” And you truly have received it, but only in the spirit, not in the physical world.
If you believed that you received what you asked for when you prayed, do not pray about it again in the same way. Thank Him for the answer to your prayer. If you pray about the same thing the next morning, you are demonstrating your unbelief.
As you read all this, do not allow yourself to be trapped. There are many kinds of prayer. There is a difference between a prayer of petition, a prayer of thanksgiving, and intercessory prayer.
Sometimes doing nothing is an act of faith
Someone may say: “But the Bible says that we should always pray and not lose heart.”
They always recall the parables of the unrighteous judge and of the man who came to his friend at midnight to ask for bread (Luke 18; Luke 11).
The “persistence” of the man who came to ask for bread could be called insistence. But when it comes to faith, it is quite different from insisting on something. Persistent faith is the kind of faith that, having asked for bread, would stand at the door until it received it.
Persistent faith is faith that asks and receives, holding firmly to faith until what is expected comes to pass. Persistent faith will not keep asking for the same thing. (If you believe that you have already received it, why ask again?) Asking again and again would be an act of unbelief. The act of persistent faith would be to stop praying about what you believe you have already received.
But remember that we are speaking only about prayer of petition. Let me explain to you the difference between prayer of petition and intercessory prayer.
In prayer of petition, you ask God to do something for you. If you ask God, according to the biblical method, to do something for you, and ask in faith based on the Word of God, then all you need to do is ask Him for it once. Then begin thanking God for it. And praise will be an act of your faith. Your actions will be in agreement with your faith.
This is stated very clearly in 1 John 5:14–15:
And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of Him.
As for intercessory prayer, it is lawful and right to declare the Word of God again and again concerning a given situation, because this will not be excessive. This is what Jesus said:
And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. Matthew 6:7
Repeating a prayer is not an act of faith
Perhaps you were taught that, in order to receive an answer to prayer, you must repeat it again and again. Eventually, you will manage to persuade God, and He will grant what you are asking for. But there is no biblical basis for this kind of thinking. Some people think they have such a basis, but if they rightly divide the Word, they will discover that no such basis exists. We will briefly examine some misunderstandings and misquotations of Scripture.
One such passage is the story of the widow and the unjust judge (Luke 18:1–6). Almost everyone claims that the widow came to the judge several times, but she did it only once. And it was precisely her boldness that made him do what she asked.
Another passage of Scripture tells of a man who came to ask for bread at midnight (Luke 11:5–8). The Bible does not even say that this man knocked on the door, yet we so often hear people quote it as saying that he kept knocking persistently. But this man simply asked and stood at the door until he received what he had asked for. And this is a very good example of the works of his faith.
If you truly believe that you receive what you ask for, why ask for it again and again? You know that you have received what you desired. But when it comes to intercession, your intercession is carried out by declaring the Word of God. This is what you do specifically to change the situation; you are not asking God to do it—you are the one overcoming the stronghold. If you had asked God to do it for you, then you would turn to Him in faith only once, and afterward begin thanking Him until what you asked for came to pass. If you are asking in unbelief, however, it is fine to turn to God again, saying, “Father, forgive me for my unbelief. This time I will pray in faith.”
Praying the Word of God Is Also an Act of Faith
When you pray an intercessory prayer, you pray the Word of God. Therefore, you can speak this prayer again and again, day after day. By doing so, you build your faith. You pray in your own words, plus the Word of God, and in this way you change the situation.
Here is an example of such a prayer:
“Father, You have given me authority to use the name of Jesus; therefore, in the name of Jesus, I stand against all the rulers and forces of darkness that have risen against my brother and his finances.”
“Let them be harmless and ineffective. In the name of Jesus, I destroy their powers and release the Spirit of the Living God, who reveals hidden riches and God's leading to my brother. I destroy every authority of Satan, in the name of Jesus.”
When I pray this way, I exert influence through my prayers. I did not ask God to do something. Now you can see the difference between a prayer of petition, in which you ask God to do something, and intercession. In a prayer of petition, you ask: “Father, I ask You to send laborers into my brother’s life to minister the Word of God to him.”
Such a prayer is addressed to God; in it, you ask God to do something. And if you believe when you ask, you will ask only once. The acts of faith in this situation will be the following two actions: 1) you will no longer pray such a prayer, and 2) you will thank God for doing it for you.
If you pray and it influences the situation, you can continue praying this kind of prayer, and it will not be in vain but will be a manifestation of your authority and faith.
The Balance of the Works of Faith
Let us now move into the physical world. If we look at these principles on a physical level, it will be easier for us to understand how they operate in the spiritual world. For example, suppose you took your car to a mechanic and said, “Can you rebuild the engine?”
He would answer, “Yes, believe me, I can. I’m one of the best mechanics in our country. I know that when I repair your engine, your car will be like new. You’ve come to the right place.”
After saying this, he gets to work. If such a person has a wrong understanding of the steps he should take, one morning he will come in and say, “If I truly believe that this car can run like new, then I must have works corresponding to my faith.”
And right in the middle of the repair process, when even the engine block has not yet been assembled, this mechanic says, “I must have works of faith that correspond to
my faith, so I will act as if this car has already been restored.” Then he calls you and says that the car is ready and can be picked up. No one would do that in real life.
And yet, when it comes to healing or the fulfillment of what you have prayed for, some people act exactly this way. For example, some pray for their sight to be restored and think, “Perhaps I should break or throw away my glasses, because that will be my work of faith.”
Only if God has spoken to you and told you to throw away your glasses would it not be a reckless act, because if God said it, everything will work out. First of all, understand that glasses will not heal you, just as they do not prevent your healing.
Some people think that their works of faith will cause what they ask for to come to pass. “If I stomp on my glasses, it will prove my faith, and healing will come faster.” This is just as foolish as if a mechanic called you and said you could pick up your car when the engine was only halfway repaired. Be patient and wait for the full ear of grain, so to speak.
Do not give in to the condemnation you may be feeling now because you acted this way before. You did so only because you did not know any other way. That is why we are devoting so much time to this point.
Do Not Rush the Harvest
Let me give another example concerning the restoration of sight. I knew a woman who followed a particular teaching about healing and faith. She wore glasses, but one day someone prayed for her with the laying on of hands for her sight to be restored.
The next day she said, “I believe I am healed.” She stopped wearing her glasses, and she began to have headaches. She said, “Lord, I don’t understand this, because I believe I am healed.”
She prayed about it, and the Lord told her: “The fulfillment has not yet come; hold firmly to your faith. Hold on to your confession, but do not take off your glasses, and every time you put them on, say: ‘Thank You, Lord, I believe that I am healed. I believe that my vision has been restored.’
That is exactly what she did every time she put on her glasses. By faith, she became one with what she believed. In trying to get rid of her glasses, she wanted the full manifestation of that in which she believed, although it had not yet come.
At that time, she had only a small sprout, not a full ear of grain.
Remember what Jesus said: “First the sprout, then the full grain.” The seed had been sown and conceived in this woman’s heart, and it was in the process of developing, but the harvest had not yet fully ripened.
Some people not only live by faith; they drive by faith because they cannot see. First, that is illegal; second, it is reckless, because they do not yet have the full fulfillment of what they asked for. Only when you can see well should you get rid of your glasses; but if your vision is still poor, put them on.
This woman made the following confession every time she put on her glasses: “I believe that I am healed. I believe that I have received healing.”
This continued for several months. Her headaches started again, even when she was wearing her glasses. She turned to God and said: “Lord, I don’t understand. I have a headache again, even when I’m wearing my glasses.”
God answered her: “Take off your glasses; your vision has been restored.” What had been promised came to pass; it was time for her to harvest.
But she could have ruined her harvest if she had given in to unbelief and said: “Why isn’t my faith working?” She could have tried to manifest the works of her faith before the ear of grain had ripened, when she had only a small sprout. She hid the Word in her heart and released her faith in prayer. Someone might say that her actions were not works of faith, but she acted according to what she had at that time. This is the kind of action described in Mark, chapter 4.
For the earth produces crops by itself: first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. But when the grain is ripe, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come. Mark 4:28–29
You should not rush in and perform works of faith until you have the full fulfillment.
What conclusion can we draw?
Live by faith. Confess your faith and act according to the level of faith you have attained.
End of lesson.
Author: Charles Capps
Source: The book “Faith and Confession.”
