Our Means Of Success
I. Faith is our means of
success and victory (1 John 5:4)
A. Apart from the faith
there is no victory and we have no means of success
1. The level of victory that
you have in life is determined by the level of faith that you walk in; Little
faith = Little victory, A lot of faith = A lot of victory
2. People who don’t know
and apply the principles of faith will be limited in the victories they
see manifest in their lives
a. Faith that lays dormant
won’t work (Luke 17:6)
b. Put your faith to work in
those areas
3. Any failure in life can
be traced back to a failure where faith is concerned b/c if faith would have
been fully functioning properly victory would have been the result
a. A refusal to take the
report of God over any other report
B. Every victory that you
have in your life is given as an act of grace that flowed through your faith
1. Inheriting the promise is
the outcome of faith and depends entirely on faith in order that it might be
given as an act of grace (Romans 4:16 AMP)
a. Grace cannot be earned,
but it must be received
2. Faith is the channel
through which the grace of God can flow into your life (Ephesians 2:8)
a. With no faith channel the
grace can’t flow
b. Faith is not working to
earn, it’s doing what’s necessary to receive
c. Faith is our access into
grace (Romans 5:2)
3. God is able to make all
grace abound towards you so that you always have all sufficiency in all things
and abound towards every good work (2 Corinthians 9:8)
a. This reveals God’s
ability to do, but not what he is doing in the life of every believer
b. His ability to make grace
abound towards you is limited or enhanced by your ability to believe
C. Every born again child of
God was given the measure of faith (Romans 12:3)
1. God’s no respecter of
persons; He didn’t give me more faith than you
a. Galatians 5:22 –
Faith is a fruit of the spirit
2. That measure of faith
(the fruit of faith) has the potential to grow as you spend time hearing the
Word of God (Romans 10:17)
a. No Word = No Faith = No
Victory---Little Word = Little Faith = Little Victory; A lot of Word = A lot of
Faith = A lot of Victory
1) The amount of victory
that we see in your life can be traced back to the amount of Word that you
spend time with
b. To think that you have
big faith and yet don’t spend time in the Word violates spiritual law
1) What’s interesting is
that in hearing that many believers won’t go home and spend anymore time in the
Word than they are right now
II. Faith, which is your
victory, comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God (Romans 10:17)
A. No Word = No victory
B. Proverbs 4:20 –
Give your attention to God’s words
1. Peter and Children of
Israel gave their attention to the wrong words