We Are What We Do
Our Doing System Resource Our Faith Declaration
Dear #DailyFollower,
Introduction
I hope you are doing well and having a fantastic week so far.
Typing the first line of this letter every day for the past 37 days (including today) has brought a smile to my face.
I smile because I’m excited to be a small part of the significant shift that God is working out in you (my readers) and me as He prepares and positions us for the wondrous works He intends to do in and through our lives.
One expression of this significant shift is the shift in our thinking, speaking, and doing that moves us ever closer to operating as God operates. This is critical to being a part of what He is doing and blessing our world.
Today, I will complete the three-part series on systems that equip us to declare the end and results from the beginning and see our declarations produce realities only God can deliver.
Today’s letter builds on things I shared about the thinking and speaking systems that resource our faith declarations; you want to check out those letters if this is your first interaction with the #DailyFollower newsletters.
Let’s dive in.
Our Doing System Flows From Our Thinking and Speaking Systems
In God’s Kingdom, we speak out of the abundance of heart (thinking), and we do out of the abundance of our mouth (speaking).
Paul, the Apostle, uses Abraham’s story to help us understand how God operates and the concept of doing out of the abundance of our mouth in his description of God in Romans 4:17B, KJV:
17 …even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
God called Abraham the father of many nations before he had his first biological son, who would also go on to have only two children. Even in Abraham’s third generation, only 12 children will be born to the carrier of the Abrahamic promise.
Yet, God called Abraham the father of many nations. As such, Abraham diligently taught Isaac about his God and his covenant relationship with him so that Isaac would pass that on. Abraham believed that in so doing, he and the generations after him would do their part to partner with God in fulfilling the promise of birthing many nations through Abraham.
Before Abraham started ‘doing’, he was already speaking about himself as the father of many nations and having everyone address him the same way.
In the natural world, doing precedes speaking in many cases. We never expect someone who has never run a marathon to say, “I’m a marathon runner.“
It won’t make sense as there’s no proof that this person is what they say they are.
However, where God has placed a truth about who we are as followers in our hearts, and we believe Him as Abraham did and begin to declare God’s truth over ourselves, in time, we become that which we declare.
How We Do What God Does
God birthed the entire universe and the human race as a thought (pre-Genesis), then spoke them into being (Genesis 1:1 - Genesis 2:3, EXB) and then started to craft creation into existence piece by piece, starting with the crafting of humanity in Adam from the dust of the ground and planting a well-resourced garden in a place called Eden (Genesis 2:4-17, EXB).
We see the flow of thought, words, and action in how God created the universe.
As God's followers, this flow guides us in becoming the people who can (as God does) declare the end and results from the beginning.
So, we see that to do as God does depends on the abundance of our thoughts and our words.
Doing as God does is believing, and according to Jesus in John 6:28-29, EXB, it is believing in the One that God sent. Here are Christ’s words in response to the question, “What should we do to work the works of God?“:
28 The people asked Jesus, “What ·are the things God wants us to do [L should we do to work the works of God]?”
29 Jesus answered, “·The work God wants you to do is this [This is the work of God]: Believe the One he sent.”
Believing in the One (Christ) that God sent shapes our thinking system, enabling us to think as God thinks.
Doing as God does is speaking what God commands; with this shift in our thinking system, we begin to operate as Christ in His earthly ministry, speaking only as God speaks, which we see in John 12:49, KJV:
49 For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father [who] sent me, [he] gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
With our shifting thinking and speaking, God enables us to declare as He declares. Since we are only saying things in His mind, we can be sure that our declarations will deliver the ends and results we declare.
Key Takeaways
Step one for seeing our declarations produce results is believing in Jesus.
Step two is hearing from God and declaring only what He commands.
Step three is consistently believing in Jesus and speaking God’s words.
We do God's work with these three steps—declaring the end and results from the beginning. None of the words we speak in His name will fall to the ground without fulfilling God’s will.
Conclusion
In John 14:12, EXB, Jesus gives us this assurance about our doing as God does. He said:
12 ·I tell you the truth [Truly, truly, I say to you], whoever believes in me will do the same things that I do. Those who believe will do even greater things than these because I am going to the Father. [They will do greater things because all believers—not just Jesus—will have the Holy Spirit living in them and empowering them.]
The question to you and me today is, what more incredible things than Christ did during His earthly ministry are we doing today?
God has given us all that pertains to life and godliness in Christ (2 Peter 1:2-4, EXB); how much we believe in the provisions we have in Christ and how frequently we choose to speak the words we hear from God over our fears determine how much of God’s manifestation we see in and around our lives.
Yours faithfully,
John, a #DailyFollower.
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