Faith and Deeds

This week ive had early morning prayer, and i read the first moring in James chapter 2 . The first time i read it it was very interesting, it wasent that i didnt understand it, but i just knew there was something that i just wasent getting and so every moring this week i would read it and pray about it. i feel like over these past few days God has reveled somethings in this chapter that i found was really cool. so id like to start this off with a verse from James chapter 2

"What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? can such faith save him?" James 2:14

When i read this i thought about the versus that says a man cannot enter the kingdom of heaven through his actions. Then i realized yes we are talking about deeds and actions but the reason for preforming these deeds are different. Here were talking about faith not the kingdom of heaven.

"Suppose a brother or sister is without cloths and daily food". "If one of you says to him, Go i wish you well; keep warm and well fed, but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it"? "In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action is dead." James 2:15-17

What i believe this is saying is that say you needed to raise money for a missions trip that you feel God has called you to go on. So since you belive God wants you there, you have faith in what God has told you, you just sit back and wait for God to provide. You go to all the meetings and you've got your things packed, its time to leave and you still have $0. Why is that? God wanted me to go and i have faith in what God is wanting me to do, So why hasent God provided for me? Please take this time to reread the scripture above. You had faith yes, but it was not backed up with your deeds, what did you do to meet God half-way.

"But someone will say, you have faith; i have deeds". "Show me your faith without deeds, and i will show you my faith by what i do." "you believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that -and shudder." James 2:18-19

Some more examples of this would be...If you wanted to get closer to God what would you do? Just going to church once a week isent going to get you closer to God just by doing that, being a Christian is more then just goin to church God has called us to do much bigger and greater things. Your also not gonna get closer to God by just being a Christian and not doing anything

"But if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your sou"l. Deuteronomy 4:29

You already have faith but now you must seek after God and that is putting action to your faith.
2nd example. Blake i wanted to tell you this last night, but oh well ill let you read it. You have faith that God wants you to do elevate, and by worldly standards that would be hard to be on one income but you have faith in want God has told you and you putting your faith into action by doing elevate and i believe God will provide you with everything you need because you are showing TRUE faith. To sum this up always back your faith up with deeds, and i hope that my examples were understandable. I wanna end this with a verse because God could explain this much better then i could ever.

You see that a man is justified (pronounced righteous before God) through what he does and not alone through faith [through works of obedience as well as by what he believes]. James 2:24 amp