Real Faith

Real Faith


Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Hebrews 11:1

Faith is a word that is commonly misunderstood. The word faith, many times is used to describe one’s religion when faith shouldn’t be about religion but about relationship.

It is erroneously at times used interchangeably with the term hope, but hope is just an optimistic look instead of an observant expectation. While hope is important, it is NOT faith. It is, however, the beginning of faith. It is a wanting or a longing for a desired outcome without realizing that it happened when God said it. According to the apostle Paul, he says “Now faith is…” The error of scriptural interpretation here is that faith was not before now. When in truth, faith has always been. Faith has always been substance! Here, Paul uses the Greek term pistis, which denotes a strong conviction of the truth. So the text teaches us that there is connection that faith has with truth. So what is truth? Jesus says in John 14:6, “I am the way the truth and the life, no man cometh unto the father but by me.” So if faith is a strong conviction of the truth and Jesus is the truth, then faith is a strong conviction of Jesus.

To fully understand that potency of this statement you have to understand what faith is not. Faith is not fact. If faith is not fact, then truth is not fact. There is a difference in fact and truth. The greatest difference that defines them is their points of origin. Fact originates in the natural. Truth originates in the spirit.
Faith reaches out into the spiritual dimension and gives form and substance to heavenly and spiritual realities in such a way that man can appreciate them. So what faith does is brings the unseen in to the realm of experience. So faith then, is not a concept but an experience. It is something that you live.

Faith Confession: Father I thank you that my faith is fixed. I am not relegated to simple hope but I have the capacity to speak the unseen and make them realities in my life. I no longer speak what-ifs and maybes but I declare it is now because of my faith.

Assignment for the week: Write down the things you have in your life that don’t look the way or behave the way you want them to. Speak them aloud daily the way the should be and cause your reality to change.