FAITH: PART I

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FAITH

We talk about our faith alot. What’s the deal with this faith? Faith is THE assurance of things hoped for. Ok. First, this assurance is like the confirmed existence of the title deed, (which is all about ownership or the divine legal guarantee of the rights of possession).

FAITH IS ASSURANCE. 

So we can say faith is the confirmation of the certainty of the things already reserved for us. Like when you go to the airport. You are interested in your ticket being confirmed, right? And you go, confident that you’re going to fly away!  And that faith has some reality, you hope. So, Faith is the actual substance that indicates the reality of the precious things we are hoping for. I like that way of saying it. 

Faith is substantive.    Real

The event and the process of having such faith is evidence of the things not yet seen or physically manifested. But such faith is visible, is recognizable, is already powerful, from where its first cause originates. In the spirit.  (That is, faith in and of Almighty God Himself) . The angels recognize our faith, although much of it is a mystery to them. The enemy is terrified of such faith. And God delights in our growing faith in Him, especially when there’s active obedience along with it.

DAILY FAITH

We ought to be developing in our faith every day. It’s not blind faith, but an increasingly informed faith. We should be being guided and sustained by it. Even without receiving the [tangible fulfillment of God’s] promises, only having seen (anticipated) them and having welcomed them from a distance, How can we understand things as we, as yet, only know these things… by this faith?

THE THING

Ah! That’s the thing… Remember. It’s the free gifting of faith that He first initiates. That’s the free gift of faith (and grace ) we must first receive and believe .. And we certainly can’t brag about what we got when it was totally,  and freely, a gift, right? And then… Then that faith process we take on with Him, really starts kicking in! And we ourselves start recognizing the evidence, as we start better understanding the facts, even things beyond our physical senses. Facts because… He says they’re so. He.. is God. 

SO
And there it is. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen. Are you getting there? Have you begun your walk of faith? Starting with His free gift?  Be encouraged.   Blessings