FAITH

Hebrews 11:6

 But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.

To believe or not to believe is a question that runs through the minds of many individuals today. Whether a believer or a non-believer some have questioned whether they should continue to have faith. Hebrews 11:1 says, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” This tells me that faith or belief isn’t visible. Contrary to what many may believe today, we simply aren’t going to see that which we already have at first; not until it’s manifested in the earth and that is only by the command of Jesus himself.

 

 Do you see the breath that you breathe? No, yet every minute you’re alive you are breathing. This is the same principle of Faith. It’s believing in something that we are assured is there, yet we can’t see it just yet. Maybe you are believing God for the approval of the adoption of a child, maybe you are believing God for a house or a truck for your family. Or maybe you are believing God for salvation. Either way, whether you’re believing for a house on a hill or for the healing of your body it’s something that you can’t see with your present eyes yet it’s already there. Faith is not only believing in the invisible before it is manifested by God; it is KNOWING that before you see it naturally, you already have what you say or ask. 

 

 1 John 5:14 says, “And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask any thing according to His will, He heareth us.” This tells us that we have what we say whenever we ask according to His will. His will is that we believe that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.

His will is that we first believe that He is. His will requires us to believe that He exists even though we can’t see Him. And if we ask anything according to His will then we have what we say. 1 John 5:15 “And if we know that He hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him.”

Faith is knowing and being assured that it already is. 

 

You were not alive when God spoke the world into existence, yet you are alive today in the world that He created. Believing in God requires risk. You have to be willing to risk and forsake all else for the solid truth that He is. You have to be willing to know that whether your family members or friends believe or not you must take a stand of Faith and believe in the unseen. This is exactly how the world was created. God being God spoke the world into existence by Faith (Himself). Mankind was not there as He spoke, yet His trust and the knowing that He had of us being here today, prompted Him to continue to speak it into existence. Although the earth was null and void then look at how populated it is now. Faith is patient. Faith is willing to wait and see the works of the Lord. Faith is willing to be encouraged even when it seems that all is failing. Your Faith should be unwavering and not predicated on the situation you are facing because although you can’t see it naturally, Faith assures you that it is there.

 

 That Faith ladies and gentlemen is God. God is Faith and Faith is God. Have Faith, have God. Allow Him into your space. Allow Him to be the very reason for your existence. Believe in Him and do not doubt, although you can’t see Him build up your most Holy Faith in knowing that He (God) is there. Jude 1:20 “But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost.”

 

Min. Arkimberly Jiles