So then, while we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who are of the household of the faith. Galatians 6:10.
So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the holy ones, and are of God’s household, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy household in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit. Ephesians 2:19-22.
So that you will know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth. 1 Timothy 3:15.
They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.” Acts 16:31.
If it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. Joshua 24:15.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God says:
Make your household a household of faith. Whether you are married with children, are single, are a child in a family, live in a large house with many people, or live alone, you are still a household. In fact, if you believe in My Son, you are My house and a temple of the Holy Spirit and you are part of My household, for the Kingdom of Heaven is within you. “Happy are those,” sang David, “who dwell in Your house, continually they are praising you.” And there are delights in My house you access in no other place. Everything good is available in My house in abundance. And you have access to it 24/7 for you belong to My family, My household, once you are under the Lordship of Jesus. As Jesus told the Pharisees, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin. The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son does remain forever. So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.” John 8:34-36. And in Jesus, you are in the same status as He in My household, a son dwells there forever.
Have you read the Letter to the Hebrews? If not you should, but there you read, “Therefore, holy brethren [he is talking to believers here of the household of faith], partakers of a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession; He was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was in all His house. For He has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by just so much as the builder of the house has more honor than the house. For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God. Now Moses was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken later; but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house—whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end.” Hebrews 3:1-6. And it is a household of faith, for it is impossible to please Me without faith because faith obtains the promises that I have given you in Christ. Faith is a spiritual force. It is from Me and you each are given a measure of faith when you are born again from My imperishable Word, the same measure like in the physical realm, you all have the same muscles, but just as in the physical world you must develop your muscles by eating healthy foods and exercising, so it is in the spiritual realm with faith. You feed it by hearing, reading, and meditating on My Word and you exercise it by speaking My Word as your own over your life and the lives of your household and by praying it and putting into action what My Word tells you to do, such as tithing, giving, sowing, serving, speaking the truth in love, forgiving, not permitting the bitter root of offense, bitterness, and anger to dwell in you. And learn to be led by the Holy Spirit. I have given you the mind of Christ—the anointing.
You can access My house 24/7 from within your heart. Don’t think of yourself as a small, finite container. In the Spirit there are no boundaries, it is huge beyond what your human intellect can embrace. When John was on the island of Patmos in was in the Spirit as he prayed and suddenly he was not limited to the finite confines of the cave there in the mountain, no, suddenly he was in the a vast and open space know as the throne room of Heaven, the command center of the universe.
Now, I want to speak with you about how to make your household a household of faith. Paul wrote about a “household of faith,” and generosity was to begin there. What does a household of faith look like? Moses told the Israelites to make their dwellings households of faith as follows: “Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one! You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your sons and daughters and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.” Deuteronomy 6:4-9.
And long ago Joshua told the people that a household of faith was one where there were no idols or other gods than Me. If you have been serving mammon as your primary source (the things of the world) and are exalting what it can do for you above Me in your daily life by serving it with no time for hearing and reading My Word, praying in the spirit and spending some time with Me, then you have brought idols in your household. Also, rid your household of all that is contrary to My Word, such as sexually immoral romances and literature, magazines that are filled with godless, idle chatter about people in the public eye, TV programs and movies that are devoid of Me, exalting abuse, violence, and filled with words and lies of the world, the flesh and the devil. There are movies now, that they even show on demand on airplane flights, filled with fire, violence and destruction in evil darkness that you should not even rest your eyes upon. You should not be watching these for they will go into your heart and your very bones. They will cut short your life and make you devoid of power.
Do not grieve the Holy Spirit within you by listening to or partaking in obscene talk, discussions of immorality, sarcasm, criticism, judging, complaining, depression, fear, anxiety, gossip, slander, envy, jealousy, selfish ambition, and the like. These do not belong in a household of faith or in a person of faith. Your conversation should be in Heaven where you are seated with My Son at My right hand and you should never be groveling around in the dirt, for that is where the devil crawls and what he feeds on, so do not be feeding with demons and think you are a household of faith.
And in a household of faith, you speak My Word as the ultimate authority, you seek to know and follow My plan for your life. You are led by the Holy Spirit. And you believe BIG. You pray and watch and write down the vision I give you and then you run with it as I lighten your path. You think about Kingdom business and taking Kingdom territory. You seek to save the lost by prayer and active witnessing. You conduct yourself as an ambassador and walk in a manner that shows the nobility of who you are in Christ. You are righteous with My own righteousness and the fruit you produce is of the vine upon which you grow—the fruit of the Spirit. Galatians 5:22-23. You are no longer producing the works of the flesh but the fruit of the Spirit. You rejoice, pray without ceasing and give constant thanks in your household. You make it a tabernacle of praise, like David did with My household and his. Wherever you are, you are a minister of reconciliation bringing others who are far away near to be reconciled to Me in Christ. You are a light to the world for you are filled with My light and going from glory to glory as you behold Jesus in My Word and in your heart. Christ is in you, your hope of glory. Walk according to who you are in Christ. I have given you the power and the skill, it is all residing within you, you have only to release it and work it out by faith.
Begin to dream with Me in the household of faith. Dream big of huge kingdom plans to bless your household, your neighborhood, your workplace, your school, your city, your state, your nation and the nations! You have been asking and declaring and dreaming far too little. “Ask of Me, and I will surely give the nations as your inheritance, and the very ends of the earth as Your possession.” Psalm 2:8. Do you pray for the peace of Jerusalem? Do you pray that all men may be saved and come to know the truth? Do you pray for the conversion of nations to the faith? What have you been doing, thinking, believing for? Expand your horizon, expand your heart.
I love you. Make yours a household of faith. The mountain-moving, resurrecting, soul saving, provision giving kind of faith. Do the works of Jesus and greater, I have equipped, empowered and blessed you to do it, for I have given you My Spirit, My Word, and My Son. Live through Him.