Faith

What is faith?
 Hebrews 11:1- Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

The definition of sure is:

 

free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something

 

confident, as of something expected

 

convinced, fully persuaded, or positive

 

 

The definition of certain is:

 

destined; sure to happen

 

inevitable; bound to come

 

What happens when we have faith?

 

Healing

 

Mathew 9:22

Jesus turned and saw her. "Take heart daughter," he said, "your faith has healed you." And the woman was healed from that moment.

 

Forgiveness

 

Mark 2:5

When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "son, your sins are forgiven."

 

Salvation

 

Luke 7:50

Jesus said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you; go in peace."

 

What can negate our faith?

Unbelief can negate (void out) our faith.

 

Mathew 13:58

And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.

 

Jesus was more than able and willing to heal but the people of his town did not believe and have faith to be healed, so he wasn't able to do much.

 

What is unbelief?

the state or quality of not believing; incredulity or skepticism

 

incredulity-  inability or unwillingness to believe. 

skepticism- doubt 

 

Mark 11:23

I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen it will be done for him.

 

James 1:6-8

But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does.

 

Having faith in God or whatever it is you are praying for means believing you have already been answered without physically seeing it with the physical eye or feeling it with your six senses.

Faith is essential to the Christian walk. Not only does faith play a big part but also not doubting.

Doubt will void out your faith.

 

Luke 17:5-6

The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!" He replied If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,'and it will obey you.

 

What was Jesus saying? Jesus is basically saying that you don't need much faith, a small amount of faith will uproot a tree if you command it to be uprooted in faith- being sure and confident without a doubt that it will be done upon you commanding it to be done.

So we can have faith and it doesn't take much but we cannot let doubt in, because once we doubt we won't trust, we won't believe and we cannot operate in faith and doubt at the same time. 

 

It is time to start believing, receiving putting to work God's power in our lives!