Believers Not Obeyers

God doesn’t need performers. He wants believers. People who will simply believe what He’s said and will respond, “God, here I am. Do Your work through me; do it in me. I’m available to You.” That is what He’s looking for. Jesus didn't say, "When I return will I find obedience?" The Son of Man is looking for faith in the earth; just plain and simple trust.

You might be thinking, “But wait, hang on. What about all the stuff in my life, all that I’m so conscious of what is wrong with me?” Would it shock you to know that God has got only one thing that He can’t do? He can’t remember your sin. He has chosen to forget it. See, if we really believed the Gospel, we’d live differently. For starters, we’d walk around happy. We’d be dangerous in the earth because we’d live so powerfully that wherever we would go life would flow out of us because we would be overflowing with Christ. What is quenching the life in you is your self-consciousness!

Remember this simple formula when you find yourself falling back into a performance based mindset:

LAW=PERFORMANCE=REWARD
PROMISE=BELIEF=INHERITANCE