HAVE FAITH IN GOD!

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

MONDAY AUGUST 17, 2020.

SUBJECT : HAVE FAITH IN GOD!

Memory verse: "Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for He is faithful that promised;)” (Hebrews 10 vs 23.) 

READ: 

4:18: Who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, “So shall your descendants be.”
4:19: And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body now dead, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.
4:20: He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, 
4:21: and being fully convinced that what He had promised, He was also able to perform.

INTIMATION:

The object of your faith is critical to your work with God, and obtaining His promises. The Bible says, "Have faith in God." (Mark 11 vs 22.) Faith is an asset of inestimable value, it is worth what you perceive it to be. Faith is not feeling, but rather a force that invades the invisible world and delivers to the physical. It implants humanity into divinity and gives dominion to the faithful. Faith is reasoning with God in the Word until you are persuaded that what He has promised He will do. Therefore, it is a display of confidence in God until you obtain your promise or your desired result. 

In the passage we read today, we saw Abraham, the father of faith, as a classic example of someone with absolute confidence in God. He never wavered at the promise of God, and it was counted to him for righteousness. Your feeling has nothing to do with your faith. You can walk into a hospital room and see someone you dearly love suffering on a bed of affliction, and you cry emotionally for an hour. Your tears may give you emotional relief, but will do nothing for your loved one. Absolutely nothing! Yet one minute of faith released in prayer to a loving God can stop sickness and disease in its tracks.

The Scripture in Hebrews 11 vs 1 states that faith has substance. Faith is real. It is measurable, hence we have all been given a measure of faith. Substance, in the case of faith, means that we have an assurance that God will do for us today what He has done for His people previously. What God has done in the past, He can do in the present. God's past performance gives us absolute assurance for our future. God said in His Word, "I am the LORD, I do not change." (Malachi 3 vs 6.) Scripture also says that Jesus Christ is "the same yesterday, today, and forever." (Hebrews 13 vs 8.)

Our faith is not mysticism. Our faith is not positive thinking or religious psychobabble. Our faith is rock solid, based on the historical evidence that God in heaven will faithfully perform what He has promised, and validated by what God has done in the past. Some people have faith in faith. They take the attributes of God and make them objects of worship and abuse them. While some others have faith in religious rituals, rather than God. Therefore, they are worshipping their distorted view of the attribute of God instead of God Himself. This is , in fact, legal idolatry. You have chosen a different God to worship. 

How would you explain the believer who virtually lives in the church, attending all services Monday through Sunday, but has no love in him or her? They have made the religious ritual of going to church their God, instead God who is love; it is faith in faith. Those who have faith in faith believe more in the crucifix hanging around their necks than the Christ hanging on the cross. A crucifix around your neck without Christ in your heart is nothing more than faith in faith; it is not faith in God. The object of our faith must be God and God alone.

Faith in God consists of more than wearing jewelry. It's more than sleeping in the church. Faith in God is substance based on the Word of God and the evidence of God's past performance. Not only is the object of your faith important, but so is the source. The Bible says, "Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God" (Romans 10 vs 17). The Greek word 'comes' is a progressive verb, which implies a faith that is continually increasing and growing. When you become a new Christian, God gives you a measure of faith (Romans 12 vs 3). This measure of faith increases to more faith as you hear the Word of God and internalize it. As you experience God's faithfulness, your faith grows and matures even more.

No matter how intimidating your problem happens to be, God is ready to hear and answer your prayer right now. He is ready to release your miracle. But first you must expect a miracle! Know it that faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.

Prayer: Abba Father, my absolute trust is in You, for I know Whom I have believed. You are not a man, that You should lie, nor a human, that You should change Your mind. You have never spoken and failed to act! And have never promised and not carried it through! Give me the grace to remain steadfast in my trust in You, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!