Faith is like air

Greetings:
Faith is like air, you can't see it or taste it, but you know it's there and you have to have it to live in true communion with God.
The entire 11th Chapter of Hebrews is the biblical record of faith.
In Hebrews 1:1 it is written, “Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.”
In simple terms, faith is trusting in God. Lack of faith is doubting God.
In looking at faith we have to realize that Satan tempts and God tests our faith.
Tempting is for our failure and destruction. Testing is in order to make our faith stronger. Testing reveals to us where we are in terms of our faith as God already knows whether or not we will pass a given test. It is as we go through the fire of testing and trial that we can be strengthened, sanctified, and purified.
 James 1:2-4 emphasizes the sanctifying and strengthening results of testing when it says, “Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.”
We need grab hold of God's promises If He said we shall cast out demons, then it means He's given us the ability to drive out those evil spirits. If He's said we have a right to be healed in Jesus' name, then we have that right, and we ought to start trusting Him and believing it.
Faith is basically taking God for His Word and believing the promises He's made to us.
Knowing what God's Word has to say about something gives us the ability to believe it. Our faith should be based upon God's Word.
Faith believes in the unseen, walking in faith, not by sight. It’s a hope for something that is not yet – believing in the promises of God. Holding fast to the thing that is afar off and trusting that God is with me.
It doesn’t mean I sit and wait for the Lord to have a plane fly overhead with a banner reading:“Go this way!”
That would make it pretty easy to know a direction to go in a situation we are facing, but God doesn't operate like that.
We all have promises from God already given to us in his Holy Word – the Bible.
He says, 'I am for you, not against you'; 'I have a plan to prosper you and help you'; 'I am with you. I will provide'.
God says by the stripes that Jesus took for our sins, we are healed.
God says faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
 No matter what hurdles, challenges, circumstances, situations, hurts, bruises, wounds we face, when we look with eyes of our faith to our Lord, we see the Lord calling us.
His hands are outstretched like when I was teaching my small daughters to walk – and said to them, “Come on, you can do it. Come on, come to me.”
We must never forget Hebrews 11:6 which states, “And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.”

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