FAITH CREATES

FAITH CREATES,

I have been hearing this over and over again for awhile and I just nod my head and say amen. The phrase, Faith Creates, and the impact and importance that it has in my life was not registering in my mind. I believed that faith creates I just wasn't activating it per se in my own life. I was experiences what, happens to all of us most of the time, we hear something over and over again we are in agreement with it yet it doesn't register in our brains therefore we don't truly practice it in our own lives.

I began to wonder why? The problem could be that we are trying to wrap our minds around what we hear and process it intellectually. Unfortunately, there are things that not even our intellect could explain or understand. When dealing with the spiritual (remember we are spiritual beings having a natural experience) we cannot depend on our senses, Hebrews 11:1 (AMP) "NOW FAITH is the assurance (the confirmation, [a]the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses]."

When the angel visited Mary and told her that she would be impregnated with the Christ, Mary said in Luke 1:38 (NIV) "I am the Lord's servant, may it be to me as you have said it." Immediately she became pregnant. She could not feel it, nothing in her senses told her that she was pregnant. For any woman that has been pregnant they all know the moment your baby is conceived, or the seed was planted, you had absolutely no clue but it was so. Usually the first indication for a woman that she could possibly be pregnant is her period being late. This is why you cannot rely on your senses, when the seed of faith is planted you just have to believe. Mark 11:24 (NIV) "24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours." There aren't going to be any signs and wonders, you aren't going to be overcome with emotion or feeling, you simply have to believe that you receive and it is so PERIOD!

From that moment, your faith is activated. A lot of people when they recite Hebrews 11:1 they leave off a very important word, NOW, faith is right now, faith isn't tomorrow, or next week or next month or next year, faith is NOW! And faith always gives a time. Meaning when you are believing for something in faith set a time for when it shall happen e.g. THIS DAY.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen. You cannot see it but it is already there, it has to be in the spiritual realm before you can see it in the natural. Faith creates, think about Jesus and how he fed 5,000+ with 2 fish and 5 loaves of bread. Jesus' faith created enough to feed all of the people and therer were basketfuls left over. Our heavenly father knew those people would be there and he knew they were going to be hungry. He'd also provided a way for them to be fed. All our Heavenly Father needed was for Jesus to activate his faith and believe and that is just what Jesus did.

So while you are waiting on God, bless Pastor Winston for saying this last night God has already provided you with everything that you need it is up to you to get it. God is waiting for you to get what is yours. How do you get it? By faith. Hebrews 10:38 (KJV) "Now the just (righteous) shall live by faith: but if [any man] draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him."

The righteous live by faith and faith is right now. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. (Romans 10:17)

FAITH CREATES

So the things that we want to see in our lives, the things that we want to accomplish we can have them, better yet, they are already ours we just have to believe and receive it in faith. The great thing about faith is that it completes the work it is set out to do. All we need to do is activate it and it goes to work. So, we need to activiate our faith and live by faith everyday. After all scripture says the just live by faith and when you steer away from faith it is displeasing to God. Everyday stretch your faith so that it grows more and more.

Be a blessing and be blessed,
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