14 May 2023 - Frame it (part 2)

The Oxford Dictionary also has another meaning for frame which is to formulate a concept, plan or system. To formulate, draw up, plan, draft, map out, sketch out or work out.

Thus, to frame it, also means that we need to plan for success. It does not come automatically. Faith without works is dead.

Proverbs 21:5 (ESV) The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.

Proverbs 24:27 (ESV) Prepare your work outside; get everything ready for yourself in the field, and after that build your house.

Luke 14:28-30 (ESV) For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’

Psalm 20:4 (AMPCE) May He grant you according to your heart’s desire and fulfill all your plans.

1 Corinthians 14:40 (ESV) But all things should be done decently and in order.

James 2:18-24 (AMP) But someone may say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works , and I will show you my faith by my works .” You believe that God is one; you do well . The demons also believe , and shudder and bristle ! But are you willing to recognize, you foolish person, that faith without works is useless? Was our father Abraham not justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar ? You see that faith was working together with his works, and as a result of the works, his faith was completed . And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND THIS WAS CREDITED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS and AS CONFORMITY TO HIS WILL,” and he was called the friend of God. You see that a man (believer) is justified by works and not by faith alone .

It is easy to say that we have faith; without works, it is dead. Once we know what we want, we must plan accordingly. God moves when a man moves.