Power With Believing: volume 2

BY WILLIAM HONEYCUTT

VOLUME II

Published 2018

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DEDICATION

Iwould like to dedicate this book to my beautiful wife.  I would like to thank her for her patience and kindness to me in all the times that I sat at the computer working when I needed to be doing other things.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This is my first book to write and I would like to recognize my wife for being the one who encouraged me to write this book.  One day I was working on a Bible study in my office and I printed out one of the lessons which I had finished getting ready.  Once I had it printed out, I took it to my wife and ask her to read over the lesson and give me her opinion.  Once she had read over the lesson, she told me that I should put this in book form. Well, that was a lot of encouragement for me because my wife is a very avid reader.  She reads many, many assorted styles and types of books. She is always reading something.  Since she is such an avid reader, I listened to what she said to me because she would not say that unless she felt it was worthy to be said.  I really appreciate her for her honesty because it gave me the encouragement that I needed to be able to write a book. 

She helped me with ideas as we discussed things in our home and she was very valuable because of her vast knowledge from being an avid reader.  I thank her for her time and considerations of allowing me to have the free time to write.  I most of all thank God for allowing her to be my wife and a part of my life.  She is a wonderful and generous kind woman. 

I would also like to thank all the people who have been a part of my Christian experience.  I would especially like to thank Johnny and Pat Nix who were a very important part of my Christian experience.  Johnny and Pat taught me everything that I knew in the beginning.  I especially thank them for their kindness and generosity. 

I would also like to thank two pastor friends of mine of whom I have a lot of respect for.  They have been a great asset to me in reading my material and giving me advise on their thoughts about things.  Thank you so very much for your kindness brother Michael and Pastor Pugh, and for your time and considerations.  You have been a wonderful source for helping me in my first book endeavor. 

I would like to thank all the great leaders that I have had the privilege of sitting under to be able to learn the knowledge that I have gained.  Because of all these great leaders and friends in my life, I have gained much knowledge about the Word of God.  It has been a privilege to know each person involved in the process.  Thank all of you very much for your love for God and kindness of being a part of my life.

Most of all I would like to give God all the glory for everything that I have learned.  I would like to thank God very much for putting all these wonderful people in my life that have been a part of my life, because without Him they would not have been their anyway.  He is the reason I have been able to write this book for Him, and I give Him all the glory for His patience with my impatience.  He has been my guide and leader and director in all the things that I have proposed and all the ideas I have referred to in this book.  I thank Him for allowing me to write this book and I hope you will get from it something that will benefit you as you read through the pages to gain some knowledge in ways you have not thought of before you read my book.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART ONE

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING FAITHFUL

Noah Found Grace in the Eyes of the Lord

2  Abraham’s Trust in God   

3  The Confidence of Shadrach, Meshach, and

Abednego  

4.  The Faithfulness of Daniel   

5.  Paul Saw the Light  

6.  The Faithfulness of the Church Today     

PART TWO

COMING TO THE THRONE OF GRACE

7.  Jesus and the Cross      

8.  Jesus Is Sitting at The Right Hand of The Father 

9.  The Power of Prayer

CONCLUSION ALWAYS PUT GOD FIRST

Let Me Ask You One Question

INTRODUCTION

Because this book will be based upon Christian concepts, a person will have to be a Christian to understand the full meaning of what I will be discussing. You can reap many of the rewards in the book because many of the world concepts come from the Word of God in the first place, and many non-Christians reap the rewards from the Word of God.   If you are a Christian, you will learn how to reap the rewards of the great and magnificent promises that are in God’s Word.  If you learn how to apply these principles of the Word of God in your life, they will become magnified in your life greater than they already are, and you will and can grow to a greater experience with God through Jesus Christ.

If you are not a Christian, it will help you to understand what the Christian life is supposed to be like, and also how to attain the things that God tells us we can have by living according to the Word of God.  You will gain an understanding of what many of the precepts of the Word of God are. You may not fully understand the true meaning of what is written in the book because we have to be a Christian to understand spiritual things.  You will learn what it takes for a person to become a Christian and you will see many avenues that will help you to understand what a true Christians life is supposed to be like.  It will help you to learn how to study the Word of God so that you can gain the knowledge to attain the promises, which are recorded in the Word of God. 

I will be basing my study on John 10:10-11 ¹⁰The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. ¹¹I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. If we want to live a life that is more than abundant, we must live according to the Word of God or we will live the less than abundant life. We wonder sometimes why the Christian lives a less abundant life than does the person who is an unbeliever and wonder how the unbeliever prospers more than we do as Christians.

Here, we can look at this verse and believe what God said or we can take the next course of living of what we think God says and live the less than abundant life.

I will try to point out the most important things that we need to know as Christians, and hopefully this will help to guide you in an understanding of how we can live more than abundantly.  We just need to understand God’s Word in order to be able to get the most out of it. We can be prosperous as a Christian.  We must understand the Will and the Law of God’s Word lo live the more than abundant life.

We need to acquire the passion, the eagerness, the zeal and the concern so that others may know that God’s Word is also the Will of God.  When we have these traits in our lives, then we show the world around us that Jesus is the answer to all the problems in their lives.  We should always be excited about what God is doing in our lives.  When we have the zeal and eagerness and passion and concern in our lives, others will want to get on board and find out who Jesus is.  They will be more excited about wanting to know why we seem to be so different from the rest of the world.  This is very important because that is what we should be doing according to God’s Word.

Therefore, when we are living the life that is more than abundant according to God’s Word, others will likely look at us more seriously. They will have a desire to want to know what we are doing to have the abundance we seem always to have in our lives. When we have these traits existing in our lives, even when everything seems to be going on in our lives, and nothing seems to ever get us down, and it always seems to work out for the best for us, others wonder why. Others wants to know how that we seem to never let anything bother us and get on our nerves and cause us to have any worry about the situations that are going on in our lives. That is when we have the opportunities to be the witnesses that God has told us that we are supposed to be in the first place.  When we are living the Word in our lives, others will see Jesus living in us. When they see Jesus living in us, they will begin to ask a few little questions here and there and they will be more interested in finding out why that you seem to be living such an abundant life.

PART ONE

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING FATIHFUL

TO ACQURIE THE FULLNESS OF GOD’S WORD

CHAPTER ONE

NOAH FOUND GRACE IN THE EYES OF THE LORD

In our walk with God we need to learn the importance of being faithful to God.  There are many stories in the Bible that will tell us of the importance of being faithful to God.  We will look at a few of them to see how some men of God used their faithfulness for God to their advantage.  God needed somebody that he could depend on. He needed somebody that would do what He told them to do just exactly how he told them to do it. He had been watching Noah and knew that Noah would do things like He ask him to do them.

Genesis 6:1-7 "1.And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,²That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.³And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.⁴There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.⁵And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.⁶And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.⁷And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them"

The earth was beginning to populate richly. There were a lot more people now than there had been. Things were beginning to get out of control. Man was becoming more wicked as time went by. They were committing all the evils of the world. They were involved in all the imaginations that the mind could think of. They were having their parties and getting drunk and doing all the things of the world they should not be involved in. That is what is going in our world today. People have put God on the back shelf and have become involved in everything that the Word of God does not line up with.  Man was becoming more wicked as time went by.

God had become very disappointed with how man was acting. He was. It repented Him that He had made man. He decided that the best way that He could bring things back to normal was to destroy all men and every living creature man and beast and even the fowls of the air and everything that creeps upon the face of the earth.

God had been watching Noah and since he needed somebody to jump start the earth Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Genesis 6:8-22 "⁸But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.⁹These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.¹⁰And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.¹¹The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.¹²And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.¹³And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.¹⁴Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.¹⁵And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.¹⁶A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.¹⁷And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and everything that is in the earth shall die.¹⁸But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.¹⁹And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.²⁰Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.²¹And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.²²Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he."

Noah found grace with God because he had been following the Lord. He looked to God for the things that he needed. He depended on God to take care of him. That is why Noah was chosen to take care of things after God had decided that He would destroy man and every living creature on the face of the earth and even the fowls of the air. WOW! God was upset with man then. People had gone off and doing all the things that they thought were important to them and left God out of everything that they were doing. The evils of the world had taken them way off from what God had wanted for man. He decided that the best way to do this was to start over and re-do things.

I guess you probably think that God was going to retry something and see if it would work. Well, I hate to be the one to tell you, but God is not retrying something to see if it will work or not. God knows exactly what will happen. He knew when He put Adam and Even in the Garden of Eden after he had formed, made, an created them that they would deceive him. He knew that they would not be able to resist the tree in the midst of the garden that He told them that they could not eat from nor touch. He knew that it would happen, but He still made, created, and formed man from the dust of the earth and breathed the breath of life into him and man became a living soul. He still brought sleep over the man and took from him a rib and formed the woman giving man a help mate. In spite of the fact that God knew they would sin He still did that. What would you have done if you knew that man would deceive you? Remember God is all knowing. He is omnipotent. He knew what was going to happen, but He still did it anyway. That is truly a loving God.

God choose Noah. Noah was a just man and perfect in his generation. Noah looked to God and walked with God and operated his life surrounded around God. He was willing to let God be his guide and lead him and direct him in the things of God so that he could operate in the world and have a decent spiritual life with God.

Noah had three sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth. He raised them up in the Lord. The rest of the world seemed to have been doing pretty much what they wanted to do just like what is going on in our time today. The world only gets more corrupt every day. Man continues to do things like they wanted to do it. They do not look to Gods laws like they used to do. They figure things out for themselves and do it their way and leave