What is faith? (He's 11:1)

The Bible says that faith is the reality of what you want, that is, the goals you wish and dream of, and that it is proof of what you have not seen. It seems easy to say, but it is very difficult. In fact, it is called "whippostasis" in Hella, which means evidence, registration documents, or scaffolding. Faith is not believing in anything. Faith is putting faith in God's word. The word of God can never be false. When we hear God's word and realize it in our hearts with the emotion of the Holy Spirit, have a clear dream on it, and boldly confess, "I also believe in it. It will come true." In this way, faith is when the Holy Spirit makes a remarkable history if we move boldly forward with reality and evidence. It is not what we achieve. If we have faith, the Holy Spirit history, saying, "Build it according to your faith."

1. You must stand in the word of God

We don't believe in anything. We have to read the Bible, listen to the sermon, and meditate on it to understand what it says. In Rome 10:17, he said, "So faith comes from hearing, and hearing comes from the word of Christ." In Matthew 4:4, he said, "Jesus answered, 'It was recorded that man will not live on rice cakes alone, but by all the words that come out of God's mouth.' We can live by listening to and believing in God's words, not just by eating rice cakes for the flesh. Because those words contain incredible life. In Joshua 1:8, God said to Joshua, "Keep the Bible from your mouth, meditate on it day and night, and do what is written in it, and your path will be flat and you will be prosperous." The words are not given as a hindrance to our lives. They were given to us to make things work well, flat, and prosperous. Therefore, it is very important to meditate and realize these words. However, in order to shake up the belief in this word, the devil comes and tests a lot.

Pastor Billy Graham became a world-famous revivalist when he was 30 years old. However, while having a philosophical and psychological discussion with his friends about the Bible, doubts arose in his mind. 'Is the Bible really the word of God? Can you trust the Bible?' Then, his life shook like a palm tree. You have nothing to trust in doubting the Bible, right? So I went into the mountains of California with a Bible, lied down, read the Bible, meditated, and prayed to God to believe in it. One day, I was praying with the help of the Holy Spirit, but this conviction came into my heart, and then the confession came out loud. "I believe that the Bible is the word of God, no matter what. Lord, I will take the Bible as the word of God, with only faith. I believe that the Bible is the word of God recorded as the emotion of the Holy Spirit with the eyes of faith, rather than with philosophical and psychological questions or doubts." After confessing this, he confessed that he won the spiritual war that took place within him, and from then on, he was confident that he could stand on the Word, live his faith, and preach.

The enemy devil shakes us with doubts so that we fall from faith. In that case, we must read, listen, meditate, and realize the word and stand firmly on it with our hearts. Only when we stand above the word of God can faith be upright. Faith comes from hearing, and hearing comes from the word of Christ. From Genesis to the Book of Revelation, God gave us the word as a revelation of the promise. Human knowledge is sensual knowledge, but the Bible is revelatory knowledge. Therefore, only God's word must be received by faith. God's grace will appear if the Holy Spirit receives faith in the heart, believes, confesses, and obeys it.

 

2. faith and senses

We need to make sure that faith and senses are different. Sense is three-dimensional to see, hear, smell, taste, touch and know through senses. But faith is four-dimensional. The fourth dimension is higher than the third dimension, so you cannot see, hear, smell, or touch it. But in fact, this is the fourth dimension given the truth. Faith is to believe in God, but can you prove God by sense? Did you see God with your eyes? Did you hear the word of God directly with your hands? You cannot experience God with your senses. But nevertheless, the soul in our hearts accepts and believes in God. It is faith. It is impossible with our senses. It is only through our senses that we think, dream, and talk about the absence of the Holy Spirit through God and the Word.

As written in Psalm 81:10, "I am Yahweh's God who led you out of the land of Egypt, open your mouth wide, and I said to fill you," the Lord is an invisible God, but God will fill us if we believe in the word of God and open our mouths wide. Some live by human power, but some live by God's faith. Those who believe in Jesus do not live by power as a dragon, but by God's power. Abraham, who we say is the ancestor of faith, was an outstanding man in faith. He practiced with faith in God, who called him as if there were none, and in faith he hoped and could not believe. Humans cannot hope for it, and humans cannot imagine it. Nevertheless, we believe. That is faith. It is faith. It is faith that does not doubt God's promise and goes out in solid faith.

 

3. You should focus on what you wish for

In Hebrew 11:1, verse 3 says, "Belief is the reality of the wishes and the evidence of the invisible. It is not because of manifestation that we know that all the world is built by the word of God in belief that the developed world has obtained evidence." These are words that tell us that if we look at the Lord, we will fail when we look at the environment. The world of faith is not the visible world, but the invisible world together. Animals do not have a world of faith. Because animals have no spirit, they cannot socialize with the spiritual world. However, because we have spirit, we socialize with the spiritual world and make what has been done in the invisible spiritual world appear in reality in faith. Therefore, we must not look at the visible environment and be swayed. The environment is the result of faith, so we focus on faith through thoughts in our minds. It is the law of looking at what we wish for and dream of will be achieved through thoughts.

The Rev. Robert Schuller said, "One of God's wonderful gifts to man is his imagination," and Marcus Aurelius, the Emperor of Rome, said, "A man's life is made by his thoughts." Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American thinker and poet, also stressed the importance of thinking by saying, "The thoughts that one has all day become himself." Dr. Norman Vincent Peel said, "Change your thoughts. Then you will change your own world." Change your thoughts means that your environment changes. These words show that the thoughts of the mind are invisible but are important to change our lives. In other words, the whole visible world is made by God's thoughts. Therefore, faith arises when we have dreams and goals and look at them thinking about them. When we dream about a goal and look at it all the time, faith builds. Then our lives become what we believe in. Faith is about focusing on how what we want it to be accomplished. If we only believe in it, faith is the reality of what we want and evidence that we cannot see. If you believe it, you will believe it. Therefore, complete faith is the same as what has been done.

 

4. You have to make up your mind

 

When we live a life of faith, we must have a determination to die if we die. Daniel's three friends, Sadrak, Mesak, and Abetnego, said they would not bow to idols even if God did not rescue them from the middle of the fire. Since they believed that "If you die, you will die," even if they were thrown into the fire, the lion of God came and stopped the fire and saved them. In this way, we must have the determination and courage to "live and die if you die" with faith.

Hebrew 10:38:39 says, "My righteousness will live by faith, and if I step back, my heart will not rejoice in him. We are not those who step back and destroy, but those who have faith that leads only to the salvation of the soul." We have faith. It is not that there is not none. However, even though there is faith, it is that you keep stepping back. God does not rejoice in those who step back. Once you have faith, you have to be determined and push ahead to the point where you will make a decision. When you step back, your heart will not rejoice in me. You must not be afraid and retreat.



In verse 14:25:29, Jesus was walking on the water, and when he walked on the water with white light, the disciples saw him on the ship and shouted that he was dead, thinking that he was all ghosts. There was a jinx that sailors drowned when they saw ghosts walking on the water at night. Then, Jesus said, "Don't be afraid." Then Peter said, "If you are the Lord, let me walk on the water," and the Lord said, "Walk on me." I have never walked on water in human experience. I have never seen or heard of walking on water, and I have never actually walked on it. Therefore, when Peter walks on the water, it is an adventure for his life. If you stick your foot out on the water and the Lord won't hold on, and you are swept away by the rough waves in the middle of the night, no one can catch you. When Peter jumped on the water with such a determination to die and with such an adventurous spirit, he began to walk along the water for the first time as a person. This is how you have to take on an adventure. People who are adventurous in faith make the most of and develop their faith. If you are too careful without being adventurous, you can't do anything. Therefore, you must be able to take a great adventure of faith like Peter.

Look at the paralytic and his companions brought to Jesus. Jesus was proof of what he said in the house, but since the crowd gathered and filled the entrance, the people who brought the paralytic on a stretcher were not allowed to enter. So what did they do? They took their chances. They put a ladder in the house, went up to the roof, and tore it off. He said that he had sat down and seen the faith when he laid a bed in front of Jesus, ready to die.

As such, faith is visible. Faith is not something that I hide and believe in. Faith is visible, but when the Lord saw it and said, "I have received your sin, little lady. Carry your bed and go home," the sick man healed. In this way, faith is proved only by adventure.

 

5. You must admit it boldly and do it as an adventure

 

If we believed, we should confess with our lips boldly. If you believed in your heart, you should say it according to your faith, even if you can see no evidence in your eyes, hear nothing in your ears, and hold nothing in your hands. After you have done it with adventure, you must admit it with your mouth boldly. James 2:17 wrote, "Trust without faith is dead in itself," and in Hebrew 11:6, "Those who move toward God must believe in his presence and also to those who seek him." Those who move toward God with faith and adventure must confess with their lips that God is alive and that if they visit him, they will give prizes and blessings as a result.

According to the Bible, David, who is adventurous, was greatly loved by God. In Samuel's chapter 17, Saul and the Israeli soldiers fainted when they saw Goliath when David went out to fight against him. For 40 days, Goliath ignored Israel and shouted loudly, and the people of Israel were confused. When David, a teenage boy, came and said, "I will go out and fight," King Saul said, "You are a boy, that is a general, and you cannot go out." Then David said, "I am going out. Is there anything I can't fight with that stranger who annihilates God when I have fought with bears and lions?" He showed a great sense of adventure and courage. David made a strong confession of faith when he went out with such a sense of adventure. When we look at what we are doing and what we are not doing, we have to confess with our mouths.



David said to the Philistines, "David said to them, 'You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a dagger. I come to you in the name of Yahweh, the name of the God of the army of Israel, whom you insult. Today Yahweh will hand you over into my hands. I will strike you down and cut your throat, and I will make the body of the Philistines known to you that there is God in Israel on the land that has been given to birds in the air and wild animals in the land today. And let this group know that Yahweh's salvation is not in the sword and the spear. He made a huge and heartbreaking confession of faith when he went out to Goliath, the Philistines' chief, as it was written. It is not prayer. It is a confession of faith. It is a bold confession of his faith when he saw Goliath. We must make a bold confession on our lips like this. Confessions must be made at the same time: to admit with your mouth and to command creatively. Then God's creative history will take place. Those who believe in Jesus need to know that they are not afraid of problems, but overcome and win, and that God is willing to gain bigger dreams and achieve bigger things through them.

Faith is the material that brings about the history of miracles. With faith, miracles appear. Because faith is the touch that God uses. God has always been where there is faith, and to those who have faith, "May it be as you believe." If we dream and pray with a clear goal according to the word of God, faith will be created and all that we already have in hand the reality and evidence will be achieved. It is not a waste of time to go into the prayer cave and cry out and pray when a person who believes in Jesus is in trouble. If you gain faith in it, the problem is solved. Through prayer, the solution to the problem comes out in your heart. Therefore, we must pray focusing on what we want with faith has been achieved. Faith brings a miraculous history when we calmly admit with our lips with the determination of our heart, "If you live and die, you will die." This is because faith is God's touch.

Faith is the greatest treasure of those who believe in Jesus. It is the most powerful weapon. When we think positively and pray with hopeful dreams, faith is created. You should not think negatively. You should continue to pray with positive thoughts and hopeful dreams, looking at the things that are not there as a law of looking at them. If you admit and pray positively, faith will arise at some point. Evidence of peace of mind and hope is obtained, and the things you wish to do appear as a reality as if you have the documents and documents in your hand. If you hold the reality and evidence of faith in your hand and command them aloud, it is no doubt that a miracle will come true. Those who believe in Jesus believe in him with this joy. We can all have these experiences. After these experiences, faith grows more and more. We all have the ability to trust. God has given us faith as much as we have. Defeat the devil's interruption and use faith. Miracles happen! Miracles are ours!

-Prayers-

God of love! I firmly believe that faith is true of what is desired and proof of what is not seen. I believe and look forward to it. Among God's grace, we also hope to possess an adventurous belief that "If you die, you will die." There are many hardships and pains in life, but let us know that God will history and miracles will happen if there is a confession of lips! I believe that miracles are ours.
I pray in the name of Jesus.
Aman!