{"id":7016,"date":"2017-08-16T07:36:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T11:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/?p=7016"},"modified":"2017-08-16T07:36:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T11:36:26","slug":"acting-in-belief-paul-chappell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/2017\/08\/16\/acting-in-belief-paul-chappell\/","title":{"rendered":"Acting In Belief &#8211; Paul Chappell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yesterday morning&#8217;s devotional by Paul Chappell was a huge blessing to me &#8211; to GOD be the glory!!\u00a0 This morning, are you seeking to understand faith that moves mountains?&#8230;faith that pleases God? Ask the Lord to show you how you can put your faith in action. Just as Peter stepped out of the boat, ask God how you can take a step of faith in regard to a mountain in your life. Then, when He nudges your heart, don&#8217;t question Him! SHOW your faith that God has heard your prayer by obeying His gentle promptings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Acting in Belief (from Daily in the Word by Paul Chappell)<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, Aug 15, 2017<\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-type-text field-field-devotion-body\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item odd\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cAnd it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven. And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying, Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1 Kings 8:54\u201356<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Hudson Taylor first went to China as a missionary, there were few people actively involved in the work of evangelism. Taylor found that most of the \u201cmissionaries\u201d were spending all their time with the British businessmen working in the cities rather than going out and reaching the Chinese with the gospel. Taylor devised a radical plan\u2014to recruit teams of missionaries who would go into the interior of the country and focus on reaching the lost Chinese. But the hardships and obstacles were many, and for a time, Taylor despaired of meeting his ambitious goal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After a time of prayer, Taylor moved forward, deciding to trust God. He later wrote, \u201cThe Lord conquered my unbelief, and I surrendered myself to God for this service. I told him that all responsibility as to the issues and consequences must rest with him; that as his servant it was mine to obey and to follow him.\u201d Taylor launched the independent China Inland Mission, and, by 1876, one of every five missionaries to China was part of this group. Taylor believed God\u2019s promises and acted on them. Our faith is not measured by what we say, but by what we do. If we truly believe God\u2019s promises, then we will claim them and act on them. We will never accomplish what we should for God if we do not trust Him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-type-text field-field-principle\">\n<div class=\"field-label\">Today\u2019s Growth Principle:<\/div>\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item odd\">When we do not claim God\u2019s promises and act on them, it reveals a heart of unbelief.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday morning&#8217;s devotional by Paul Chappell was a huge blessing to me &#8211; to GOD be the glory!!\u00a0 This morning, are you seeking to understand faith that moves mountains?&#8230;faith that pleases God? Ask the Lord to show you how you can put your faith in action. Just as Peter stepped out of the boat, ask God how you can take a step of faith in regard to a mountain in your life. Then, when He nudges your heart, don&#8217;t question Him! SHOW your faith that God has heard your prayer by obeying His gentle promptings. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Acting in Belief (from Daily in the Word by Paul Chappell) Tuesday, Aug 15, 2017 \u201cAnd it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven. And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying, Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.\u201d 1 Kings 8:54\u201356 When Hudson Taylor first went to China as a missionary, there were few people actively involved in the work of evangelism. Taylor found that most of the \u201cmissionaries\u201d were spending all their time with the British businessmen working in the cities rather than going out and reaching the Chinese with the gospel. Taylor devised a radical plan\u2014to recruit teams of missionaries who would go into the interior of the country and focus on reaching the lost Chinese. But the hardships and obstacles were many, and for a time, Taylor despaired of meeting his ambitious goal. After a time of prayer, Taylor moved forward, deciding to trust God. He later wrote, \u201cThe Lord conquered my unbelief, and I surrendered myself to God for this service. I told him that all responsibility as to the issues and consequences must rest with him; that as his servant it was mine to obey and to follow him.\u201d Taylor launched the independent China Inland Mission, and, by 1876, one of every five missionaries to China was part of this group. Taylor believed God\u2019s promises and acted on them. Our faith is not measured by what we say, but by what we do. If we truly believe God\u2019s promises, then we will claim them and act on them. We will never accomplish what we should for God if we do not trust Him. Today\u2019s Growth Principle: When we do not claim God\u2019s promises and act on them, it reveals a heart of unbelief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4,67,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-gods-promises","category-obedience","category-prayer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o6C2-1Pa","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7017,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7016\/revisions\/7017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}