February 8, 2017 WWJWMTD by Steve the son of John

All Roads Lead Through Jericho #2

Faithless news is fake news

The new series, All Roads Lead Through Jericho, is for all Christians. No matter who you are or what your relationship is with Jesus Christ, all of us are on a spiritual journey, and we all will travel through our own spiritual Jericho.

We hear a lot about ‘fake news’ lately. Lies are throughout society and humans love a lie rather than hear the truth—this is a biblical truth. The Bible says in many of its books that ‘people will love lies and gather around individuals that tell lies’.

Lies and faith run in conflict with each other. One cannot be a person of faith and be willing to listen to lies (fake news). In fact, if you hold to faithless news then it is lies (or fake news) you are responding too.

Remember, All Roads Lead Through Jericho when it comes to your walk with the Lord. You know the story, the children of Israel leaving Egypt and walking into the Promised Land. This was no easy task and the children of Israel were complaining, fighting with Moses, ignoring God’s command, and/or generally sinning along the way. They wanted it easy and on their terms—they did not want to go through Jericho.

When they got to the promise land ‘spies were sent out’ to survey the land and ten of the twelve said that, “We cannot enter the land because of the giants in the land” while two of the spies, said, “It is a land flowing with milk and honey and we can take the land.” (Numbers chapters 13 & 14—a great read.)

We all have this choice for whatever and whenever God talks to us or takes us in our walk with Him. We can believe in either ‘faith statements’ or believe in the ‘fake news reports’. It is a power play of ‘faith news vs. fake news’. You and I cannot get to Jericho unless we are ‘people of faith’. (Isaiah 53:1, "Who has believe the Lord’s report?”)

We cannot reach our destination without faith. We cannot walk around our enemies and shout in praise without faith. We cannot see the glory of God working His will without faith. We cannot do anything with Christ without faith—that is just how it is.

I will say it again, “Faith is how you respond to God—it is your response to God.” We either believe who God is and what He says about Himself or we do not. You either have faith or you do not—you have a mustard seed of faith or you do not. It is not about how ‘much faith you have’ but if you choose God’s direction and His words for your life.

I choose God! I believe in God! Whenever God speaks, I respond to Him. I am then a person of faith. I do not allow what I see or how I feel to interfere with what God is asking of me, especially if it is contrary to His requests or words or action plans.

Not only do I want to make it to my promise land, my mountain, my eternal destination, but I want to do this with ‘shouting for joy’, winning the battle against all that is from the evil one, and having God say, “Well done faithful servant.”

I listen to words of faith not fake news—words of unbelief. It is God who knows the way (for He is the way) and how to fight (because His angels fight for me) and when to shout (His timing is my joy & strength). It is just that simple; I choose Him and He responds back to me calling me a person of faith. Yes, my faith changes everything and God is pleased with me when I choose Him. The Bible says, “Without faith a person does not please God” and “God has given to everyone a measure of faith.”

You can choose Him. He has given you the ability to choose Him—have hope in knowing the truth—faithful news!

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