Actions needed to see our faith turn to sight include 1. Confession with our mouth 2. Believing in our heart that God will keep Word. by Gary Shotton #000468

Faith Requires Action

By Gary Shotton

Hello my name is gary shotton, I am here as a part of inspiring better business IBB talks. Today i want to talk about faith requires action. I was happy. Looking back, that i was born and raised on a successful farm and ranch .my dad was an entrepreneur. I delighted to look back at the very lessons i learned in business in life. Some of the little lessons included practical things at a young age.

We learned that if a vehicle wasn’t running, we suspected it was the battery or the battery was rundown inside that vehicle. Then we needed to do something to jump that battery jump that vehicle and get it started. What we had in many of our vehicles was a set of jumper cables. These cables had clamps on two wires that were together, one had a clamp that was black on both ends and the other had a clamp that’s red on both ends.

We learned which post on the battery to connect those two, red on each end to the positive and black on each end to the negative. When we did that and made sure that the connection was good and had a running vehicle, running at a good greatest speed. We could get in that vehicle that was not running earlier and turn on the switch being sure enough it would start.

That is something we have used all our life and i don’t know if everybody knows about that because very seldom do i start a vehicle that way anymore. We just call someone to help us, but it is a good knowledge. And our faith i believe has some parallels to those two chords as two wires. One is the positive wire one is the negative. That is; there are two things that are missing, to get our lives jumpstarted.

I think that a lot of people want to serve God, i believe if you asked if they love God, they could say “yes i love God”. They are even going to church or they’re usually there. They are reading their bible a little bit and they are studying a little bit and they are trying to be good people. But it’s like they are not jumpstarted, they are not running, they are not going. There is no action happened. Faith requires action is what we are talking about, and we are going to talk about that in the financial and business realm.

This is interesting concept of faith. Once you learn how faith works, you will learn that it has the same two elements. Whether you’re applying it to finances, which we’ll talk about or to your salvation which is very important to begin with. To your health or your marriage or your raising children or anything, do it in the word of God. That is why we are always encouraged to consider, read, study and become serious about understanding the word of God.

The confession with your mouth and believing in your heart, those are two elements that i believe. I am quite convinced that, they are the equivalent of those two cables connecting the two posts of the batteries in order to jumpstart your life or jumpstart your faith. There is no like trickery in this. This is repeatable, but at the same time, there is no magic word you learn and no hocus pocus or magic about this, this is proven fact. Well let’s just apply it in one of these areas that you’re probably familiar with.

If you’re reading this, i hope you are a Christian. If you are not, i ask you to consider in romans 10:9-10 it says “if thou shalt confess with your mouth.”  This is number one. “And that Jesus Christ is your lord, and believe in your heart that god raised him from the dead, thou shalt be safe.” Those are the two things, confess with your mouth and believe in your heart. In this case, most people might have a hard time believing that Jesus Christ rose again from the dead. So you’re not connected. You should believe in your heart. You can take an opportunity to study the word of god, you can study history and you can read those people have observed jesus after his death and resurrection. There are other historical books that even confirm this.

These explain, but the main thing is the bible. But without believing in your heart, you’re disconnected. Without confessing with your mouth, you’re disconnected. So, we’re here to help you connect on those two things, and again, one of the beautiful things about this is when you start learning that faith is repeatable, predictable has a pattern, then you can study a part of the word of god, not for your personal gain, but because you’re building a relationship with God.

The whole element of the word of God and the whole reason Jesus was set on this earth was to mentor us, guide us and teach us, so that we could be friends of God. That we could be in relationship with God. That is what God wants. And so, as you start applying these things, then you’re going to see results and the results are not going to be instantaneous from first grade to college. It’s going to be step by step as you build your faith. You should say, “now i have study this and become convinced, without a shadow of doubt that this is what the word of god says, I’m correspondingly confessing it”, then you’re going to see results.

Well, let me take just for a second on healing and health. I can remember the day that i had studied that god would be my healer, and i was in a particular spot where i was now actually welding. I held welders hood, anybody that knows about a welders hood, could you pull that hood down and it’s dark inside there. And i had pondered “could Jesus actually be my healer?” Because i had history years before of the flu coming on me. Right then I am thinking about it, and I am about to get sick all of a sudden in just a matter of 15 to 20 minutes. “I’m going to have the flu” I thought. Then I just remembered No, i have believed in my heart. And then I’d confess with my mouth privately, “no Jesus, you’re my healer”. And i felt that flu symptoms instantly leave me, and i haven’t been sick for many years, actually 41 years.

Let’s apply it to our finances, there is where we’re trying to get. Now it’s not get rich quick. It’s provisions god wants to provide for your needs. And it’s step by step. On the first day of your business, you’re not going to have tons of money. You’re not going to be rich, you have to learn the processes and prove God in each area.

We’re trying to teach you these lessons, make available to you these lessons so you can learn about. You need quality that is one of those laws of business; you need a happy customer and these systems and processes. We have a long list of lessons, if you’ll experiment with these; you’re experimenting with the word of god which is truth, then you become convinced.

This is something you need, and then you try it, and confess with your mouth. As you believe, I am 100% confident, god will confirm it, and now you’re on your pathway to believing and getting in relationship with god. It’s not magic, it’s process and systems. God wants you, like i said. But god shall supply all your need according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus. That’s Philippians 4:19, one of the first verses i learned.

Then i looked through the entire old and New Testament and try to find when people were beggars and poor and had no money. I did not find it. I found that Jesus was always making provision. He made provision when there was 5000, to maybe 15,000 people in the audience and they just had five loaves of bread and a few fishes. He made provision; he made provision when the water was turned into wine on the first miracle. He made provision in almost every case, and this process it is true.

It was true even in the Old Testament that, if David didn’t kill goliath, they were going to be slaves.  David had faith because he had used his slingshot, he knew he could do it, and he said, “i will succeed. I will conquer this”, and he did it. That’s the same principle, Moses when he was crossing the red sea, all of his people following him. All the nation of Israel was grumbling and complaining. He cried out to God in faith, and he raised his rod as instructed and the sea party. He took action.

This is something that’s over and over and over again in the multiple of miracles in the New Testament and all through the Old Testament. Believe in your heart and have confessed with your mouth, what you have believed in your heart. There you’re growing closer to God step by step in this relationship. God then trusts you with more and you’re given more and bigger tests. I have been entrusted with quite a bit now. But it’s not because I am something special, it is because i had 40 plus years of going step by step by step to get here. Well i hope this helps you. Thanks for being a part of inspiring better business.