Good Morning Friends!
I hope you are all doing well this week! I have a new blog post for you and this is a spontaneous one. I stumbled across a devotion this morning and it was talking about what faith is and I have to share it with you! Growing up, I would hear a lot of sermons about faith, but I never really knew what faith meant. Even before I read this morning's devotion, I still didn't quite understand faith. A lot of times we depend upon on our human abilities such as emotions and we think that when we pray, we are reaching to God because of how we feel. This of course is not the case and as I have read before, emotions are fickle, temporary. So what is faith exactly? Well we are about to find out and I pray that this helps you and encourages you today. So without further ado, let's get started!
Okay, let's answer the burning question, what is faith? Faith is... knowing God or knowledge of God. What? Yes, it goes back to having a relationship with God, coming to know Him for ourselves. Isn't this amazing? I don't know if you have noticed or not, but it seems to be the focal point of everything we discuss, it all goes back to having a relationship with Him. Now how we get to know God is simply through His word, prayer time, and through trials and tribulations. If you are going through a trial and it seems as if God has disappeared, do not be discouraged. He is still with you and He is going to show His saving grace to you. In order to know God, we have to go through some tough times to see His mercy and grace. Is it easy? No, in fact, I find myself getting impatient sometimes because I want Him to save me now.
So where does faith come from? In Romans 10:17 it says, "Faith comes by listening to this message of Good News- the Good News of Christ." So this means we need to be reading His word daily and listening to it by listening to sermons, worship songs so it can build our faith. Faith also means to trust in God even though the circumstances are not lining up. The Lord says to, "live by faith and not by sight." 2Cor. 5:7 So if your circumstances are bleak, dark, impossible, scary, hopeless, etc. Remember, the Lord is always with you and even though the situation may not be what God says, His word will truly comes to pass. Why? "His word will not return unto Him void." Isaiah 55:10-11 I am reminded of the children of Israel, they were about to depart from Egypt and Pharoah was leading his army to try to capture them. They came to the Red Sea. They had to wait a bit while God pushed the waters back, as soon as He did, they took off running through the parted waters. With Pharoah on their heels, they must have thought, "Are we going to die here and now?" As soon as they made it across, the waters came crashing down and killed the Egyptian army.
You talk about faith, my goodness, God saved them just in time! So my friends, if you are facing something impossible today, I want you to remember all the situations, the circumstances that God has brought you through. If He did it once, He can do it again! There is nothing to hard for Him, He can do all things and so can you because Jesus is the One who is giving you strength. My friends, I pray that this post has encouraged you and blessed you today! May the Lord bless you and keep you! Until next time!
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