Why faith? What is there that we need to know about faith? Why is it that without faith it is impossible to please God? Why did the Lord say, according to your faith be it done unto you? And a lot of times did He say, rise and go your way, your faith has made you well. What is faith?
One thing is settled in my heart. It’s not really something so out of this world or something so mind blowing. The Bible does not refer to a special thing or meaning when it talks about faith, or some great mystery hidden behind it. It is as plain and simple as described in the common dictionary.
One thing is settled in my heart. It’s not really something so out of this world or something so mind blowing. The Bible does not refer to a special thing or meaning when it talks about faith, or some great mystery hidden behind it. It is as plain and simple as described in the common dictionary.
Faith is but the strong belief or conviction in one’s heart. What ever you believe in, that is where your faith is. So when God talks about faith, He means a strong conviction in one’s heart, not doubting, but a firm unwavering conviction that His Word is a settled truth, not subject to debate or argument or whatever. It is settled.
Walking by faith and not by sight simply means that we don’t change what we believe in the Word of God regardless of what circumstances are. God says we are blessed then we say we are blessed despite the empty pocket.
We can have faith in anything. One person can tell us one thing and another person can tells us another thing and we can have faith in any of those. And so the faith that we put on God is just the same as the faith that we put on things. But the faith of God, meaning to God-ward, or towards God is quite different in that the faith in other things is empty but the faith of God has power behind it. As illustrated in
Col 2:12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.
and in
1Cor12:6 and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.
We are saved through faith because of the powerful working of God. We lay hand on the sick and they get well because it is God who empowers them. If a person believes in the moon as god or in the sun as his god, that faith is in vain because these are merely things and don’t have power of their own.
If you believe Mother Mary as god, that faith is in vain because she is also human being like you and me and we do not have power of our own. But if we have faith in Jesus Christ, who is the Son of God and given all authority in heaven and in earth, then that faith is a powerful faith. And not because we believe it, but because the power of God is behind it, and when we believe it, the power of God operates.
It is a spiritual law that God set up. Similar to gravitational law that no created being can violate. God says, at the name of Jesus every knee should bow. That again is another law, when we believe it, at the mention of His name, evil spirits are driven out, sicknesses are driven out. We've seen it work. I've seen it work. Why does it work like that? Because God said it, and God will not let His words to fall to the ground.
Whatever God says, He is bound by His words. He does not lie. In Him is all truth. And so we are confident that we shall live and not die because we have been buried with Him in baptism and also raised with Him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised Jesus Christ from the dead.
Now let it be a settled truth in our hearts that we are new creations in Christ! We are no longer the old, everything about us is new; we are brand new creations of God! And this new creation has the life of God in him. He is neither subject to sickness nor to poverty because he is joint heir with Christ. Oh it just drives me nuts thinking what a glorious life I am living in Christ!
And what is it about faith that without faith it is impossible to please God? Well God will really be unhappy to see us sickly and in poverty when all we really need to do is believe and see it by faith that we are well and alive and rich in Christ!
Mat 9:29 Then he touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith be it done to you.”
I choose to believe God and the life that He’s given me through Jesus Christ.
We can have faith in anything. One person can tell us one thing and another person can tells us another thing and we can have faith in any of those. And so the faith that we put on God is just the same as the faith that we put on things. But the faith of God, meaning to God-ward, or towards God is quite different in that the faith in other things is empty but the faith of God has power behind it. As illustrated in
Col 2:12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.
and in
1Cor12:6 and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.
We are saved through faith because of the powerful working of God. We lay hand on the sick and they get well because it is God who empowers them. If a person believes in the moon as god or in the sun as his god, that faith is in vain because these are merely things and don’t have power of their own.
If you believe Mother Mary as god, that faith is in vain because she is also human being like you and me and we do not have power of our own. But if we have faith in Jesus Christ, who is the Son of God and given all authority in heaven and in earth, then that faith is a powerful faith. And not because we believe it, but because the power of God is behind it, and when we believe it, the power of God operates.
It is a spiritual law that God set up. Similar to gravitational law that no created being can violate. God says, at the name of Jesus every knee should bow. That again is another law, when we believe it, at the mention of His name, evil spirits are driven out, sicknesses are driven out. We've seen it work. I've seen it work. Why does it work like that? Because God said it, and God will not let His words to fall to the ground.
Whatever God says, He is bound by His words. He does not lie. In Him is all truth. And so we are confident that we shall live and not die because we have been buried with Him in baptism and also raised with Him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised Jesus Christ from the dead.
Now let it be a settled truth in our hearts that we are new creations in Christ! We are no longer the old, everything about us is new; we are brand new creations of God! And this new creation has the life of God in him. He is neither subject to sickness nor to poverty because he is joint heir with Christ. Oh it just drives me nuts thinking what a glorious life I am living in Christ!
And what is it about faith that without faith it is impossible to please God? Well God will really be unhappy to see us sickly and in poverty when all we really need to do is believe and see it by faith that we are well and alive and rich in Christ!
Mat 9:29 Then he touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith be it done to you.”
I choose to believe God and the life that He’s given me through Jesus Christ.
Comments
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on your blog. Indeed it is comforting to know that the faith we have in God is not mere blind faith that, say, prompts you to jump off a building expecting that someone will break your fall at that instant, but a faith founded in God's Word--eternal, unchanging--that the omnipotent God of the universe always keeps His promises, that our omniscient God is a God we can trust to know what's best for us.
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