Cultivating Conviction _Pt 8

<p>Monday 28th September 2020.</p> <p>A wonderful Monday to you in the name of Jesus.</p> <p>A few days left and we will be in the month of October. We thank God for His grace. We are still talking about cultivating conviction and one of the ways we cultivate conviction is through practice.</p> <p>The Bible says in the book of James 2:26 it says, " Faith without works is dead". That is, Faith that you don't put to work will not work. If you don't put your faith to work, it will not work. So, it is important we put our faith to work and how do we put our faith to work? You don't try your faith out on big things first. You try it out on little things and gradually we move on to big things. If we work our faith in those little things in our privacy and just begin to build it from there so that our faith can grow, and we can cultivate our conviction.</p> <p>David was at the back side of the desert. Nobody saw him, nobody knew him, he faced the lions there, he faced the bear there and that's all he knew. Nobody knew about it. And one day, he came out in public and saw Goliath and because he had practised his conviction in God to deliver him from the bear and lion. He was sure that God will deliver him from the hand of the giant Goliath in public and that's exactly what happened.</p> <p>Back to the story of Moses in Exo 4:3-7 God was still trying to convince Moses about going to the land of Egypt and he wanted to show him His power so he told Moses He said "Moses what is in your hand" He said "Throw it on the floor" he threw it on the floor. It became a snake and Moses was shocked and God said, "pick it up at the tail". He picked it up at the tail and it became a rod again. The next thing, God said " Take your hands, put it within your clothes". He did it. He became a leprous when he brought it out. And God said, "put it back in there". He did it again and it became his normal hand again.</p> <p>All these things that God showed Moses was in the private, it was simply between Moses and God. So, it is important we learn