WHAT IS FAITH
Date Teaching Given: August 17, 2023
Romans 10:17
You increase your faith by hearing His Word. You can’t pray for more faith.
Get into the Word of God as much as you possibly can.
Faith comes by hearing and hearing the Word of God.
Renew your mind with the Word of God (Romans 12:2). You can hear the same scripture again and again and still discover something new about it. God’s Word is inexhaustible.
God’s Word is living. God’s Word is power. God’s Word is life.
Read the Word of God for yourself.
God wants you to have a close walk and relationship with Him. And then, when tough times come, you can trust in, lean on, and rely on Him more than anything else you see or hear.
Romans 12:1-2
John 17:13-17
Don’t be conformed to the world- don’t act, talk, or think like the world.
Getting into the Word of God will transform the way you think.
Renew your mind with the Word of God to prove (know) the good, acceptable, and perfect Will of God.
You are in this world but not of it.
You should not act how the world does. You are supposed to be salt and light.
God is greater than any test, trial, or circumstance.
Hebrews 11:1, 6
Philippians 4:19
Habakkuk 2:4; Romans 1:17; Galatians 3:11; Hebrews 10:38
Faith is a way of life.
Faith is confidence that God will perform His Word.
Faith is trusting in God more than what you see or hear, more than what your five physical senses are telling you.
Faith is holding on to God.
God is Jehovah Rapha. He is Jehovah Jireh. He is Jehovah Nissi.
Faith is trusting in God even when you don’t see or feel anything happening. Faith is standing on His Word.
Get into the Word of God to find out Who God really is so you can trust Him.
Hebrews 10:35-36
Sometimes standing in faith requires patience.
Be consistent about standing in faith– speak and trust in God.
Mark 5:21-42
Jairus’ faith and trust in Jesus came from hearing about what Jesus was doing.
The woman with the issue of blood also had faith and trust in Jesus from hearing about what Jesus was doing.
She believed in her heart and spoke it out of her mouth. Her words were faith-filled. Her spoken words were contrary to her lived experience.
Her faith (trust in God) made her whole (healed her).
Those that hold on and hold fast to God and God’s Word will receive a special reward.
Say, "Thank you, Father God, by Christ's stripes, I am healed and made whole (Isaiah 53:5). I don't care what anyone else says or what the symptoms say."
Don’t speak what you see or how you feel.
Walk by faith and not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7).
Keep standing and believing regardless of your circumstance.
Jesus spoke faith and life.
Be bold enough to stand and believe God. He is greater.
Mark 11:13-14, 20-24
Words matter. Words have power.
Jesus spoke to the fig tree, and it died.
Jesus had faith in His Father.
Jesus spoke only what His Father told Him to say.
Have faith (trust) in God constantly.
Believe them in your heart, speak them out of your mouth, and trust in God’s Words more than your circumstances.
Can God? Will God? How’s He going to do it?
Yes, God can.
He says in His Word over and over that He will. God is a sure thing.
He is a God of surprises.
Know that He can. Know that He will. Really trust and have faith in God.
Call those things that be not as though they were (Romans 4:17).
Jesus spoke to the fig tree. Although it didn’t immediately look like anything had changed, His Words were working even though the disciplines couldn’t see a difference. Words matter.
Say, “Father God, I trust You. I don’t care what things look like. I don’t care how bad things are. I thank and praise You, Father God. I trust You beyond what I can see. I trust You beyond what I can feel. I trust You beyond my circumstances. I trust that You, Father God, are the one in control, and You are the one who said- Greater is He that is in me than he who is in the world (1 John 4:4). You are greater than he that is in the world, and You live in me.”
1 John 5:1, 4-5
Your trust in God conquers the world, any report, and any circumstance. Trust and faith in God will conquer anything the enemy is trying to do against you.
Trust in God and lean not unto your own understanding (Proverbs 3:5). Have faith in God constantly.
You build your trust in God by hearing His Word.
All of God’s promises are in His Word.
God’s Word is life and power.
The Word (Jesus Christ) became flesh (human) and lived among us (John 1:14).
Know the power of the Name of Jesus.
God is faithful to perform His Word.
Speak God’s Word and believe that He is going to do what He says He will.
God’s Word changes things.
