...that faith only works through love. There are all these verses in the Bible that say that if we ask God for anything that is according to His will, then we will get those requests from Him. I think it says this in the book of John, Jesus Himself talking, and in the book of 1 John as well. It probably states it in other places as well.
Here's the rub. How do we know what is according to His will and what isn't? Well, here is what I have learned. I have only become able to know what His will is as I've come to know Him.
Before I knew Him, and only knew about Him, those verses didn't work for me. They stayed in the misty grey area of Bible verses that had zero effect on my faith. But, now that I've gotten to know Him, and what He is like, and, more specifically, what He is like toward me, I know a lot of what His will is. And, therefore, I ask Him for things regularly and receive them, because I know it's what He wants for me! It's so simple!! But I never knew what His will was, and therefore those verses never worked for me, until I got to know HIM!
This is just more proof of the fact that faith works through love! My faith never worked until I discovered that God loved me and wanted to have a relationship with me. After I discovered that, and began to live in it, MY FAITH BEGAN TO WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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