Faith Is Just Believing What God Says

Once again Beth Moore has hit the nail on the head..."Faith is not an action; it is a response." We need to "learn to trust in His faithfulness (to) grow and develop our own". Faith is "firm persuasion, conviction, belief in the truth, ... reality or faithfulness."

Remember that children's Sunday School song, "Faith is just believing what God said He would do. He will never leave us, His promises are true. If we but believe Him, His children we become..." That's what faith is, believing in God's believaility!

True faith isn't based on what God does, it's based on who He is! If we try and base our faith on what we perceive God is doing we're going to struggle every time He doesn't do what we think He should the way we think He should. How much better to believe in who He is and know He's always going to do things for His honor and glory and according to His plan even if it doesn't make sense to us. We must remember His ways are higher than ours! (Faith is believing God can even we He doesn't...because the doesn't in our eyes, not His all knowing ones.)

Think about Hebrews 11:1: "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."

Faith isn't always easy, but it always brings the result desired by God.

The opposite of faith is fear, and fear gets in the way of our faith.

We need to be in prayer for increased faith. Prayer cuts a window in a wall. (Remember Daniel 6:3-11).

The enemy is mostly mouth (like the lions whose mouths God shut for Daniel).

Our life motto should well be "through faith" (as in Hebrews 11:33).

God will always see us through when we put our faith in Him, and beyond the victory is a promise fulfilled.

We fight through with faith.

We need to agree with God and give to Him our weaknesses so He can help us through them.

We need to continually rehearse God's faithfulness to help remind us what He has brought us through and that He can bring us through whatever it is we are facing at the time.

We need to be busy praising the Lord for His goodness and mercy and faithfulness.

And! We please God with our faith. We were created to please Him!

Boy have I needed this lesson this week.

We know when we are tired or worn down or worn out or discouraged that the enemy will attack us and try to get victory over us. At times like these we need to especially rehearse our history of faith in the faithfulness of God.