It's in the lifestyle

Jesus said,
"Do not store up treasures on earth..........But rather store up treasures in heaven".
Yet we suppose we can't support missionaries because we need to make sure we have something put aside for a rainy day.

We can't donate to feeding the hungry or clothing the naked until after we have covered the premium on our life insurance policy.

We short our support of the youth group to make sure we can pay the car payment--on a car much bigger and newer then we really need.

We hold back on our tithing to make sure we can handle the mortgage payment on a house with more bathrooms then some people have total rooms.

Which just points out that we don't have enough faith in Jesus to take Him at His word and believe what He said.
If we don't trust His words, then we have little faith in who He is.

When our savings, life insurance, car payment, and too-big mortgage come before the commands of Jesus, then we have compromised our faith in Him.

We need to understand that this compromised faith is the same faith we use when we pray for miracles of healing, salvation, or prosperity.
"It is the only faith we have"

Somehow we CLAIM to believe God for answers to these prayers; yet our actions say we don't-or can't-believe Him when he says to feed the hungry, give our tithe, support missions and lay up treasures in Heaven. Instead we save up, buy insurance, or get a newer car, and store up treasures on earth.

Then wonder why we don't see more healing of the sick.

Jesus said, "Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be given to you also." We simply can't trust Him because our faith is so compromised by our lifestyles. We feel we must chase after all these things because if we don't then we won't have them. That is not what He said.

Yet we have the arrogance to pray......
.....and so, we pray amiss!

Jesus said, "Honor your father and mother." Yet when the young teenager tells us they can't honor their father because he abused them, perhaps even sexually. We somehow assume that there must be an exception to the words of Jesus. This child is told that their father is not an honorable person and should not be honored; but should be in jail, and probably he should.

But to honor the parents has nothing to do with the parents, or how good and honorable they may or may not be. It has to do with the MIRACLE WORKING POWER of God; and I assure you the child needs the miracle working power of God. This child needs a touch from a loving God, a healing of the mind and heart, needs to feel safe again, get to the place of forgiveness, and finally back to honoring a parent.

This takes time, and it takes the presence of God. If we have compromised our Christianity, and the Christianity of the hurting by not having enough faith in the words of Jesus to take Him at His word. We then wonder why our prayers are not answered.
We have compromised our faith by assuming we know more then Jesus.

If you really want to see miracles happen, you need uncompromising faith in a miracle working God. The compromise is not in the faith we claim to have, it is in our LIFESTYLE which displays our faith to God, and to the world.

Jesus, the greatest spiritual warrior who ever walked on this earth. The Lord of all, and in fact very God Himself, also said, "Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. If someone takes your cloak do not stop him from taking your tunic. Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you". He said to lend without getting anything back, and your reward will be great.
Christian; how are you doing?

~(The truth is if you REALLY believed that there is a God, and REALLY believed that there is a devil; a real heaven, and a real hell; and how you spent your life here, would decide where you would spent eternity; If you REALY, TRUELY believed all that; what words of Jesus would you compromise, or try to explain away?)~

Yet it is this same belief and faith we bring to prayer, and wonder why God doesn't produce miracles.

The power of faith, is in the lifestyle, because the lifestyle, is the outgrowth of our faith in God.