BLESSINGS FROM THE WORKS OF FAITH

My Dear Precious Child, One of the apostle James most staunch admonitions via the Holy Spirit is for My children not to show favoritism toward anyone. He wrote that if a person comes into your church with gold rings on his or her fingers wearing fancy clothes, and at the same time a poor person comes in in shabby clothes that you must not pay more attention to the beautifully dressed person and invite him or her to take a seat in the very front of the church. He admonished you not to pay more attention to the wealthy person than to the poor person. He wrote that if you do favor the rich person that you have discriminated against the poor person in your heart. In other words, you have become a judge by handing down favoritism to the rich person, which is not My will. (James 2:1-4) James admonished all readers of his letter to listen to his words, writing that I chose those people who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and heirs of M;y kingdom which I promised to those who love me. Yet, My children often treat the poor people as a second class citizen. He wrote that if the rich people accept personal attention that they are, in essence, exploiting you. They are the ones who take you to court and blaspheme My noble name, James wrote, speaking of the Pharisees. (James 2:5-7) He went on to write that you are acting righteously if you fulfill the scriptures in which Christ told you to love your neighbor as yourself. (Matthew 22:39; Romans 13:9) However, if you show favoritism toward the privileged people then you commit sin and you are convicted by the law as a transgressor. He reminded you that anyone who falls into sin on one point of the law, even if he keeps the rest of the law, that person has become guilty on all counts. My words which say not to commit adultery also say not to kill. So if you commit adultery but do not murder anyone, you are still a transgressor of the entire law. (James 2:8:11) In further explaining that truth, James wrote to all of the people in the churches, including you, that when you willingly yield to one demon that you have yielded to all demons because you have placed yourself under the devil's domination because you have obeyed him instead of obeying Me. Whomever you obey becomes your master. If you obey the devil, you do not become judged by Me. You become judged by the devil, who is a cruel taskmaster. The clear and concise admonition under James is for you to always SPEAK and ACT as people whose future judgment is under My new covenant law of freedom. The people who do not show mercy to the poor and underprivileged do not inherit My mercy because they have judged other people and so they are judged by their own judgment. Mercy trumps over judgment. The people who sow mercy to the poor in the earth inherit My mercy because they are dispensing My mercy in the earth and in doing so they are in the position of receiving My inheritance for them. (James 2:12-13) James asked this question of believers: What good is it to profess faith in Christ Jesus without doing what He said to do, which is called the works of your faith of sharing your bounty with the poor? That kind of faith which withholds goods from the poor has no power to save you from the works of the devil. James wrote in more clear terms that if a person has no clothes to wear and no food to eat, and you wish that person good luck, encouraging him or her to keep warm and eat well, but you do not endeavor to meet the person's bodily needs, what good is that to the ministry of My Good News? That is what faith without works is. It has no works of improving the lives of other people behind it. (James 2;14-17) The apostle James went on to write in his letter that you're powerless if you profess faith but you don't practice the workings of faith which are to follow the guidance of Christ Jesus. He wrote that it is useless to tell a poor person about your faith without your showing the workings of your faith in your actions. James said he always showed the faith that preceded his own works of love. He asked if the readers of his letter believe that I am One with Christ Jesus and the Holy Spirit? If you do, you are right and he wrote that even the demons from hell believe that and shudder at My power. (James 2:18-20) So talking about your faith without meeting the needs of people is dead faith. James used Abraham as an example of doing the workings of his faith when he offered his own son on the altar. That act was proof that his faith assisted his works and implemented his works of intending to sacrifice his son. Abraham believed Me and it was credited as his being righteous. It was the works of his faith that made him righteous, not merely his faith. James also used the prostitute Rahab to illustrate his point. He wrote that she harbored My messengers in her home and then she sent them out so that they would not be apprehended. In other words, she put action to her faith in Me. (James 2:24-26) James emphasized again in his letter that faith without the actions spurred by faith is dead. In his letter to all believers, James' teachings were a synopsis of all of the teachings of Jesus Christ, My Son, who was the image of My love. Heed those words through My Son and through the disciples of My Son and you will have the abundant life in the earth. Your Father of Power-Filled Words