The Nature of Faith

Faith has many friends and certainly doubt and unbelief are not one of them. Actually, faith causes such a positive affect on a person that they accomplish greater tasks with less trouble. Beginning at the very first word of the Bible faith is involved in your response to just how the heavens and the earth came into existence. Reading through the whole Bible will engage you and challenge you to have more faith, a faith that will make a difference in your life. The stories that are actually facts that really happened in the lives of people that walked in and with a nature of faith. The characteristics of faith proceed from the basis of a belief that trusts in God and His promises! The nature of faith is a “child’s” faith who believes in what the Father says will happen.

The scriptures states that we walk by faith not by sight… (2 Corinthians 5:7). In faith we walk not needing to see the promise but to know that God has promised we have a surety of the results. Faith believes that there is a God and that He has created all things and He cannot lie. That He loves us and has provided a way of escape from the curse of sin and depravity. One of the most intriguingly told stories of faith in the Bible is that of Abraham and Isaac traveling to Mount Moriah (Genesis 22). God asks Abraham to slay his son, his only son! To offer him as a sacrifice. The one thing that he had that was a promise from God. Isaac was the beginning of the promise and now he was asked to sacrifice him. Abraham believed God at His word and that is the very root of faith in the purest sense of it s nature applied to humanity. Believing God at His word and trusting Him in the possible and the impossible. God stops Abraham at the last moment of Isaac’s life, the last instant of the promise given and provides a sacrifice that was there all the time but was not noticed till faith was in action.

Faith does have a substance and a conviction which makes up the character of the nature of faith. We must have the trust in the substance even though we cannot see it! the conviction is the knowledge that no matter what it will come to pass. So walk toward your impossibilities and watch them become possibilities. Walk toward your promise not away from it! Have the nature of faith overtake your human nature which is suspicious and standoffish.

When the disciples stated: “Increase our faith” (Luke 17:5) to Jesus He responded that if your had faith of a mustard seed you could…. do the impossible. What is being said here is that the smallest of faith if planted can grow into a mighty faith that can accomplish the impossible. You can increase your faith by walking in the and with the nature of faith. Never doubt what God can do and desires to do through you! He is exceedingly and abundantly more than able to do all…. (Ephesians 3:20). The promise and the truth is this: That you can do all tings through Christ who strengthens you… (Philippians 4:13)

Dennis

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