Time to put in the work.

James 2:17-20

Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

Knowing that faith without works is dead, what active steps are you taking to better your current situation?

Here are a few examples to help us apply this scripture to our daily lives.

You want a better prayer life, but you don’t pray. 

You want a job, but you don’t fill out applications. 

You want to lose weight, but you don’t exercise or change your diet. 

There is a responsibility that comes with the change we want to see. 

Today, invite God into your situation and listen to the instructions He gives you. Apply faith and works together and watch the change you want to see spring forth. Identify three actions you are taking for each situation you want to see change in. 

Is it fasting and praying for a loved one? 

Is it carving out time to fill out applications?

Is it making healthier choices at the grocery store? Eating out less?

Write it down. Write the vision make it plain. Run with it!

Habakkuk 2:2–3

2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. [1]

3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry

James 2:18-20

18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.

19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?