Is this faith-if it is very cloudy out and you tell everyone I believe by faith it is not going to rain and then you go out carrying an umbrella? It may be thought of as wisdom, but it is not faith. Most believers have heard the biblical term of what faith is: the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen, but what does that really look like?
I believe it is believing for something we want and not giving up until we receive it. Faith is doing what we believe we should do and believing the outcome that we desire will happen. Praying is a great example, asking the Lord for something and knowing without a shadow of doubt it will take place.
Sometimes we demonstrate faith and we don’t even realize that we are doing it. Going over a bridge, through a tunnel or under an overpass with vehicles or trains on them, shows that we have faith, but we don’t even give it a thought most of the time. Faith is demonstrated every single day of our lives from the time you get out of bed until you get back in bed.
In the book of the Bible where most people believe the faith chapter is, it says this in Hebrews 11:3, “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.” God spoke the world into existence out of nothing, using nothing but His spoken word. Believing this has been a real struggle for many years, but it is true, it also takes faith to believe this.
Faith is a word that demands action to display it. James 2:17 says this, “Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.” It also says this in verse 14, “What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? Can faith save him?” If you agree with someone’s teachings and it never changes your life it is all intellectual learning and not faith. If you want to be justified, declared righteous it will take more than just declaring you have faith, it will take acting on your faith. It says this about Abraham in James 2:20–24, “How foolish! Can’t you see that faith without good deeds is useless? Don’t you remember that our ancestor Abraham was shown to be right with God by his actions when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? You see, his faith and his actions worked together. His actions made his faith complete. And so it happened just as the Scriptures say: ‘Abraham believed God, and God counted him as righteous because of his faith.’ He was even called the friend of God. So you see, we are shown to be right with God by what we do, not by faith alone.”
I write on this subject at different times because I think we need to be reminded of this fact, that without faith it is impossible to please God and trying to accomplish anything spiritual on our own, without backing it up with faith and actions is subject to fail. Every person in the hall of fame in Hebrews 11 believed in something then they acted on what they believed which showed that they backed up what they believed by expressing faith with actions.
Sometimes we pray about things to take place but we do nothing to help bring it about. For instance, if you’re praying for a job but you sit home instead of going out to put in applications, you probably won’t find a job. You need to put feet to your faith. Actions speak louder than words in most cases and it also shows that you are sincere.
I hope this will be a blessing to whoever reads it. God bless you and have a great day!!
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