know that God wants you to have it, you are never going to be operating in enough faith to receive anything.
Faith works by letting God love you. It doesn't work by your ability to go out and love somebody else. Let God love you and go around all day just telling God, "Oh, God, I know You love me.
Hallelujah! Father, I praise You. I magnify Your name."
Smith Wigglesworth was a great apostle of God. Someone asked him if he had long seasons in prayer, and he said, "I rarely ever pray more than 30 minutes, but I rarely ever go 30 minutes without praying." He said once that if he went more than fifteen minutes at one time without having some communication with God, he had to repent.
We are trying to get things from the wrong end. You can't make it happen by your works. God will bless you because He loves you. He will give to you the same way He gave you your salvation.
You are not going to get a family member, or anyone else, saved by working at it. Let God love you. Then, by the time you see the family member, you will be ready to love him. The Bible tells you that if you will love them and stop trying to win them with your words and all your fancy ways, you will draw them to Jesus. The Spirit of God will draw your family through His love. But you can't love others if you don't let God love you first.
Ephesians 2:8 AMP says, "For it is by free grace (God's unmerited favor) that you are saved...." Do you realize that you did nothing to get saved? Most of us were just as rotten as the day is long when Jesus saved us, and it certainly was not based on our good works or our ability to do anything right. It was because of only one thing: God loved us so much that he gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believed in Him would not perish but have everlasting life. (John 3:16.)
Grace can also be defined as God's willingness to use His ability in your life to meet all your needs. Just as God, by grace, gave you enough faith to get saved, He also, because of His love, gives you the faith to believe He is your healer. He gives you the faith to believe He is your provider.
If the faith He imparted to you for your salvation was enough to save you from all your sins, that same faith is on the inside of you to meet all the rest of your needs all your life. If you believe that God loves you, and really begin to know it, then you will begin to really trust Him.
You will be convicted of the truthfulness of God's Word. You will know that He would never lie to you because He loves you.
According to the Amplified Bible, "faith" is
"the leaning of your entire human personality on Him" [God] "in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness" (Col. 1:4). As you allow God to love you, you will learn to love Him and trust Him, and you will have faith.
God loves you!
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Freedom From Fear
"There is no fear in love [dread does not exist], but full-grown (complete, perfect) love turns fear out of doors and expels every trace of terror! For fear brings with it the thought of punishment, and [so] he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of love [is not yet grown into love's complete perfection]."
1 John 4:18 AMP
We usually go along just fine in faith, confident that God loves us, trusting Him. Then all of a sudden, something attacks us.
The big stealer of faith is circumstances—those bad things that happen to us. You don't have much trouble believing God loves you until the circumstances make it look like He doesn't.
Then the devil comes in with fear and condemnation to separate you from the very thing that will set you free—God's love. "Well, what about this?" he says. "I thought God loved you. So why are bad things happening to you? You must have done something awful. God is really mad at you."
Then you lose your confidence before God, and He can't help you if you are not confident. You can't be confident, or full of faith, if you don't know that God loves you. And if you receive the devil's load