Friday, November 7, 2014

Faith is not 'seeing is believing'

Greetings:
 The statement “seeing is believing”, might seem to be contrary to process faith, but it really isn't.
In Hebrews 11:1 we read: “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” 
It takes faith to bring things from the unseen realm of the spirit into the seen realm of the here and now.
My friend, Dr. Johnnie Blount, from Bridging The Gap Ministries in North Carolina, says the phrase 'fear not' is mentioned 365 times in the Bible and there is a purpose in that -- to prepare us for each of the days of the year.
He says, “In order to see more, you have to see it...Everything you have today is what you saw yesterday.”
Dr. Blount is talking about seeing something in our mind before you see it with our eyes.
That's faith, the whole foundation to our Christian walk.
Our eyes are connected to the brain – our mind.
In physical terms, the eye sends what we see as a message to our brain, which  then processes that message into an image of what we see.
From a spiritual standpoint it works a little different.
We don’t have to wait to get to heaven to prosper and have our needs met.
Don’t agree with what the world that insists and says, “You could never have that.” and don’t say, “That’s too good to be true!”
Just like unbelief kept the Israelites out of a Promised Land for 40 years because it seemed just too good to be true, unbelief can keep us out of our promised land too.
If you’re speaking negative words of doubt and unbelief, you have a heart problem. “For out of the fullness (the overflow, the superabundance) of the heart the mouth speaks” (Matthew 12:34, The Amplified Bible).
Through our spiritual eyes we can have victory.
Remember the words in Genesis 13:14-17 (NLT), “After Lot had gone, the Lord said to Abram, “Look as far as you can see in every direction—north and south, east and west.  I am giving all this land, as far as you can see, to you and your descendants as a permanent possession. And I will give you so many descendants that, like the dust of the earth, they cannot be counted! Go and walk through the land in every direction, for I am giving it to you.”
When Jesus died on the cross, our inheritance was written, and stamped 'paid in full'. We have been given all that we can see in every direction if we have the faith to see it.
Just like Jesus said it takes faith to receive a healing, it takes faith to walk with more. We have to see ourselves through faith with a job or a better job, new opportunities, good health, a new vehicle, a comfortable house, with our bills paid or whatever it is that we are praying about.
Speak it today and believe it.
The past is our greatest enemy, the thing that strikes fear in us, holds us bback and deceives us into believing that we can not do it.
Be blessed.

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