How To Make Your
Faith Work! Chris Oyakhilome
LoveWorld Publications
How To Make Your Faith Work! ISBN 978-37866-2-8 First Printing 2005 Copyright © 2005 LoveWorld Publications All rights reserved under International Copyright Law. Contents and/ or cover may not be produced in whole or in part in any form without the express written permission of the LoveWorld Publications. All scripture quotations are taken from the King James Version of the Bible unless otherwise indicated. BELIEVERS’ LOVEWORLD INC. aka Christ Embassy
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Contents
Contents
INTRODUCTION 5 CHAPTERS
1
T HE F AITH T O L IVE !
2
Y OU A LREAD Y H AVE F AITH ! LREADY
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3
J ESUS T A UGHT U S H OW T O R ECEIVE
39
4
R ECEIVING I S B Y F AITH
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5
T WO K INDS O F F AITH
63
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L IT TLE F AITH A ND G REA T F AITH REAT
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7
W EAK F AITH A ND S TRONG F AITH
89
8
T HE C ONQUERING P OWER O F F AITH
119
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HOW TO MAKE YOUR FAITH WORK
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Int ion Intrroduct duction
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've confessed God's Word. I've sown seeds. I've
fasted. I've prayed. I've done everything! Why hasn't my situation changed? Oh God, why?!!!" Many people are agonized like this over their seeming inability to change their situation. Yet, in Matthew 17:20, Jesus made this statement clear. He said "When you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, nothing shall be impossible unto you." So, why do many of God's people pray, fast, cry, -7-
sow seeds, confess Scriptures and still experience frustrations and even tragedies in their finances, health, jobs, marriages and businesses. Why do they always end up questioning, "Oh God, why?" Many who find themselves asking this kind of question or who find themselves in such situations have one major problem: They haven't learnt how to make their faith work. Apart from their ignorance of how to put their faith to work, some Christians find their faith coming under attack and weakened by adverse circumstances. Like Peter, they take their eyes off the Word and gaze in fear at the boisterous winds and billowing waves; they eventually begin to sink when they should actually be walking on the water. Jesus said in the last days men's hearts shall fail them for fear (Luke 21:26), yet this is not the portion of the child of God. Proverbs 24:10 says, "If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small." The Living Bible translation of the same Scripture says,
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"You are a poor specimen if you can't stand the pressure of adversity," letting us know it's wrong for our faith to fail or buckle under the pressure of adversity. Unfortunately, it is at such times of adversity that some take their eyes off God's Word. They neglect their faith, allowing it to be stifled and rendered ineffective by circumstances which the same faith should have dominated. Any child of God can rise above any situation, time and time again, if he'd only learn how to make his faith work. This book is the result of the urgent need by the Spirit of God