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Maybe you see yourself described here, living in the dark, straying and without purpose or understanding, feeling separated from God —maybe even wondering if God is listening to your cries for help, while you live in the dark? So often we live in the dark only because we don’t look toward the light. We don’t really look to God but we look for free-ways out of the dark.

1 John 4:16 And we know (understand, recognize, are conscious of, by observation and by experience) and believe (adhere to and put faith in and rely on) the love God cherishes for us. God is love, and he who dwells and continues in love dwells and continues in God, and God dwells and continues in him. I love this explanation of knowing God because observing is exactly what we have done if we know God, and that He cherishes us.

James 2:17 So also faith, if it does not have works (deeds and actions of obedience to back it up), by itself is destitute of power (inoperative, dead). Believing God for something will take some faith action. For example, if I am believing God to be healed of the flu, yet I keep talking like I am sick and acting like I am sick, I will stay sick. It is my faith action of talking and acting healed that will manifest the healing that was already provided for me (Isaiah 53:5).