Everything we do as believers is to be done with faith in God. The simple way to say this is this:
Everything we do must be because we trust that God is true to His words!
“We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers, remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.” 1 Thessalonians 1:2-3 ESV
Wether you have a specific scripture in mind or not, there should always be a scripture that gives you an assurance that God is true to His word.
So when we pray, it is because we know that God answers prayers not because we have no other choice.
When we love and care for strangers it is because we know that God loves them and we trust that God wants to manifest His love through us!
The work of faith therefore is the effort needed to consistently trust that God’s word is true when you have so many other voices around you fighting for your trust.
You may have a voice saying that you are not useful to your neighbor who has a very big house. The work of faith is what you do in your heart to say no!
I am useful to everyone around me because my prayer to God affects them, my smile at them affects them and God who made them and put us around each other has a plan.
I remember, the Holy Spirit helping me to stay in faith for so many things! Things as little as, say hello to that person over there. And big things like move your family to Kuje.
This is the work of faith. It is a daily work. To us believers it’s like breathing. You do it so many times in a day without sweating. But once in a while you feel it because the resistance is much!
Praise be to God for the Holy Spirit who helps us with our work of faith!
This is how we are able to continue to be effective disciple makers!