Faith-Truth-Life-Unbelief-Lies-Death

[1st John 3:24] And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
[1st John 3:23] And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
[1st John 3:22] And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, “because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight”.
[1st John 3:21] Beloved, if our heart [conscience] condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. [our prayers are answered]

And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. (1 John 3:22)

[1st John 3:20 ] For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. [guilty conscience] {in need of repentance}

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. (1 John 3:18)
[1st John 3:19] And [by this] hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.

[1st John 4:15-18] Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. And “we have known and believed the love that God hath to us [you]”. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Herein is [your] our love made perfect, that we [you] “may have boldness” in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear”: because fear hath torment. He [you] that feareth is not made perfect in love.

1st John 5:14-15 And this is the confidence that we [you] have in him, that, “[therefore] if [you] we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us [You]: And if [you] we know that he hear us [you], whatsoever we [you] ask, we [you] know that we [you] have the petitions that we [you] desired of him.

Therefore having “Faith in God”[believing your prayers are answered]

[Mark 11:24] Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire [desired], when ye pray [prayed], believe [believing] that ye receive [received] them, and ye shall have them.

{Remember “God is forgiveness” prayers are hindered by unforgiveness [resentment, hurt, grudges, etc}

[Mark 11:23] “NOW THIS CAN BE DONE”; For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and “shall not doubt in his heart”, “but shall believe that those things” which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. [Confession of an answered prayer that is not seen, but in love for God and his word, it is done]

[James 5:16-18] Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man [woman] [you] availeth much”. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and “he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And “he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain”, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

[Matthew 7:7] [you] Ask, and it shall be given you; [you] seek, and ye shall find; [you] knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
[Matthew 7:8] For “every one [you]” that asketh receiveth; and he [you] that seeketh findeth; and to him [you] that knocketh it shall be opened.
[James 1:6-8] But let him {you} ask in faith [as all the above], nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. “A double minded man [woman] is unstable in all his ways”.

God will answer you in his time and in his way to work together all things for your good.

so that He is glorified. Wait patiently on Him praising His Name for His answer to your prayers. He is no respecter of persons and isn’t considering one prayer of a person better than the other prayer of a person other than faith or no faith [believing in Him and His word or not]. That is the only thing He looks at.

You are “Sons and Daughters of God”, His elect, His children He broods over and watches over and takes delight in as You have come to Him through Christ and love His word from the heart to be holy, righteous, and perfect, giving Him praise and adoration. Why would He not answer You? He will answer His faithful children.

“LIBERAL VIGNETTE's”

[vignette; {3} : a “short literary sketch” chiefly descriptive and characterized usually by delicacy, wit, and subtlety]

“There was once a man that thought he was dead. His concerned wife and friends sent him to a doctor. The doctor decided to cure him by convincing him of one fact that contradicted “his belief” that he was dead. The doctor “used the simple truth” that dead men don’t bleed. The doctor put his patient to work reading medical texts, observing autopsies, etc. After weeks of effort the patient finally said, “All right! All right! You have me convinced. “Dead men don’t bleed!” Whereupon the doctor struck him in the arm with a needle, and the blood flowed. The man looked down with a contorted face and cried, “Good Grief! Dead men bleed after all!”

“If one holds to unproved theories, or unbelief, with sufficient tenacity”, of this world or spiritually, the truth will make no difference at all, and you will be able to create a world of your own, totally unrelated to reality and “totally unable to be touched by truth”. Such a condition is comparable to the man who thought he was dead. Facts made no difference, and therefore his condition was equivalent to death, because connection with the living world, or living faith in God, was severed. The man in the story not only thought he was dead, but in a “VERY real sense” HE WAS DEAD! Facts, or facts of faith, no longer meant anything to him. “HE HAD COMMITTED INTELLECTUAL, spiritual, SUICIDE. Dead men do not think!

“No adherence to any truth! No conversion to facts or truth of reality, naturally or spiritually!” Gone!

[2nd Corinthians 4:4] In whom the god of this world [deceiver-liar] hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

[2nd Thessalonians 2:10] And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because “they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved”.
[2nd Thessalonians 2:13] {to the believers in truth} But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, [WHY] because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation [HOW?] through [ones choice]“sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth”: [whomsoever]

“There were two cavemen in a cave and one of them was standing outside at the entrance of the cave where it was raining on him. The other cave man inside the cave said to the other, “Its raining. Come inside out of the rain!” He responded, “ No it is not raining!” Cave man inside said, “yes it is! Lookup and see the rain coming down from the sky!”, as he sees the rain drops pouring down in the front of the entrance. Cave man in the rain says, “No, I will not look up for its not raining!”, as he is getting soaked. The cave man inside says. “You are all wet so it is raining!” The one outside says, “Define Wet!”
Hang on to “your ideology” if you will, but you are a walking dead man, the loser when truth and light is rejected!

Both these “liberal vignette’s are indicative of the terms, “unbelief and doubt”, refusing to come to the knowledge of the truth to submit to the light of natural and spiritual reality being deceived of ones own hard hearted accord.

[John 8:28-32] Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, [in ones heart in repentance towards God] then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; “but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things”. And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; “for I do always those things that please him”. As he spake these words, many believed on him. Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If “ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed”; And “ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free”.

[Proverbs 8:1-4] Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice? She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths. She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors. Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
[Proverbs 8:36] But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: “all they that hate me love death”.
[Proverbs 1:22] ……and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

[Revelation 21:8] But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, “and all liars”, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
[Revelation 21:27] And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, “or maketh a lie”: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
[Revelation 22:15] For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and “whosoever loveth and maketh a lie”.