FAITH
FAITH....short word, long process...the last two months this was my journey. I am battling with the cliché that we as Christians has made this intimate, silent place that GOD has formed in our hearts. I am battling with the cliché we use Heb 11 for: " faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." we stop just there. True to our sinful, selfish human nature.
The very essence of the question of faith came to me in a deep prayer one day.....
You see we base our faith on what we want to see. We rate the level of faith we have by what we see.... And GOD just convinced me different over the past two months.
Faith in the things you want to see will draw every little bit of joy that you have out of you because it is too big for you...
Faith in the way you perceive things to be will make you stumble because it needs to go beyond that that you see.
So if we place our faith in the thing to happen or the circumstances to change, we will grow weary and lose heart. Because we will search in the physical.
The essences of faith are born in the quiet and secret prayer closet...the place of intimacy where the FATHER speak about HIS heart for the situation....faith is born out of the FATHER revealing HIS heart towards the matter....
Faith is then born out of the SPIRIT and it is placed in the FAITHFULL ONE. It is a remembrance of HIS CHARACTER...
It is knowledge that HE is LOVE and that HE shows love and mercy and compassion towards the person or situation.
It is the know that HE is LIGHT and where there is LIGHT no darkness can be victorious.
It is the believe that HE is TRUTH, knowing that HIS WORD CAN NOT RETURN VOID....remember the word that was born in the quiet, intimate prayer....the language of LOVE spoke to you by the FATHER.
It is knowledge that HE IS CONSUMING FIRE...and that is the substance of faith...that the WORD spoken will not return void, that a CONSUMING FIRE goes before you in order to bring into being what HE has promised to be....
We should really take time to read the rest of the chapter ...were Paul speak about Abraham and Noah...if my memory serves me ....God spoke...they act...they responded....
Faith is a action of response....its substance is in the existence of the FAITHFUL ONE who is not man THAT HE CAN LIE...because you see....the substance of faith is nothing we can do...it is about HIM....who "will never forget you. See I have inscribed you on the palms of MY HANDS"...(Isaiah 49:15 & 16) He have you covered...now, tomorrow always (Heb 13:5&6)....HE knows that we are dust...that is why HE is the FATHER...
Therefore your faith is based in HIM, WHO knows us....
The next time you struggle and battle with the question of your faith...look at the picture...we are all periodicals...just return home....
The very essence of the question of faith came to me in a deep prayer one day.....
You see we base our faith on what we want to see. We rate the level of faith we have by what we see.... And GOD just convinced me different over the past two months.
Faith in the things you want to see will draw every little bit of joy that you have out of you because it is too big for you...
Faith in the way you perceive things to be will make you stumble because it needs to go beyond that that you see.
So if we place our faith in the thing to happen or the circumstances to change, we will grow weary and lose heart. Because we will search in the physical.
The essences of faith are born in the quiet and secret prayer closet...the place of intimacy where the FATHER speak about HIS heart for the situation....faith is born out of the FATHER revealing HIS heart towards the matter....
Faith is then born out of the SPIRIT and it is placed in the FAITHFULL ONE. It is a remembrance of HIS CHARACTER...
It is knowledge that HE is LOVE and that HE shows love and mercy and compassion towards the person or situation.
It is the know that HE is LIGHT and where there is LIGHT no darkness can be victorious.
It is the believe that HE is TRUTH, knowing that HIS WORD CAN NOT RETURN VOID....remember the word that was born in the quiet, intimate prayer....the language of LOVE spoke to you by the FATHER.
It is knowledge that HE IS CONSUMING FIRE...and that is the substance of faith...that the WORD spoken will not return void, that a CONSUMING FIRE goes before you in order to bring into being what HE has promised to be....
We should really take time to read the rest of the chapter ...were Paul speak about Abraham and Noah...if my memory serves me ....God spoke...they act...they responded....
Faith is a action of response....its substance is in the existence of the FAITHFUL ONE who is not man THAT HE CAN LIE...because you see....the substance of faith is nothing we can do...it is about HIM....who "will never forget you. See I have inscribed you on the palms of MY HANDS"...(Isaiah 49:15 & 16) He have you covered...now, tomorrow always (Heb 13:5&6)....HE knows that we are dust...that is why HE is the FATHER...
Therefore your faith is based in HIM, WHO knows us....
The next time you struggle and battle with the question of your faith...look at the picture...we are all periodicals...just return home....
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