FAITH IN ACTION
John 5:1-15

To rise is the evidence of faith in action. The driving force that makes rising become faith in action is not there if the rising is not immediate. This is saying that without rising immediately it does not become faith in action. Doubt, procrastination or delay, were not the pattern in the life of those that heard and responded to the command of God by rising immediately. Abraham at his very old age, with only Isaac as the promised child, God commanded him, “…Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.” (Genesis 22:2) It was a difficult command that would have demanded reminding God that Isaac was the promise child. Abraham the faith practitioner asked no question neither did he doubt, but responded, “So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he split the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.” (Genesis 22:3) Abraham could not wait for morning hour by responding early in the morning. It was a faith in action for Abraham. In the healing of the man at the Pool of Bethesda, faith in action prevailed. The sick man had been at the right track of his healing but remained trapped because he was waiting for someone to put him in the pool when the water was stirred up. As recorded in the Bible for thirty eight years there was no mobility because of infirmity. As a result stagnation reigned in the life of the sick man. Are you experiencing stagnation in any area of your life? No man is going to put you through but Jesus. He is here to give life and to give it more abundantly and you are here to receive the life He brought if you will rise. The sick man at the Pool of Bethesda had an encounter with Jesus. John 5:8-9, “Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.” 9 And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked. And that day was the Sabbath.” The sick man at the Pool of Bethesda heard the command, without procrastination or doubt and rose. The Bible made it clear that he rose immediately. An immediate response was the driving force that made his rising to be a faith in action. What sound of deliverance has been sounding in the direction of your stagnation? Has doubt or procrastination been playing a role in your life? If you will not delay your deliverance unto breakthrough you will have to rise in faith immediately.

Prayer for today: Ask God to deliver you from whatever is clouding your faith from rising immediately according to His word.