Rom 1:17
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
In my previous blog THE LIFESTYLE OF FAITH I began to expound on the principal of faith
I believe that for many of Gods children faith is a major problem and one of the main reasons is because of the lack of understanding and revelation concerning the principal of faith.
For the next couple of weeks what I would like to do is to bring revelation to you concerning faith and I believe that it will be a tremendous help to you so that your faith even if it functions as a tiny mustard seed can become fruitful and lifestyle and powerful.
Here is reality,
The lifestyle of faith is actually faith in the reality of lifestyle.
The very first thing that I want to share with you is that faith is real and that it works,
This is so simple and yet so profound.
Faith has been proven in my life and it has been proven to the place where I know that it works, it has worked as He has raised me up, as He has shown me the power of His glory, as He has opened up the Red Seas of my life, as He has walked with me in fiery furnaces and slept with me in the lions den.
I have seen the power of His miracles and even though I have not walked perfectly in this revelation of faith it is a proven principal in my life and there are life changing revelations that He has taught me in the area of faith that I want to share with you so that faith can be lifestyle to you
Now the first thing that I want to say again concerning faith is that faith is real
Faith is real and yet there are many who do not believe that faith is real.
What do I mean when I say that many people do not believe that faith is real?
Here is what most people believe that faith is
They believe that faith is saying something that is so when it really is not so and if you say it long enough then it will become so
Most people believe that faith is saying the right things, persevering in these right things, not wavering, holding on, and speaking to those things in persistence and they call it faith.
So that the things that are not so will become real and that is false, that is hypocrisy in the area of faith and it is those false teachings that make people who believe in faith seem weird.
I do not know how many of Gods children believe that if you confess it long enough it will come to pass, if you speak it long enough it will come to pass, that is not so.
Faith is real and if you can grasp this powerful truth it will literally impact your life
Faith is tangible, it can be grasped, faith is reality in the spiritual world.
When I say by the stripes of Jesus Christ I am healed and even though I may not see the manifestation of that healing in my physical body, I am not just saying something that is not so and by confessing that by His stripes I am healed so that it can be so
No
When I say that by his stripes I am healed I know that it is real in the spirit world
It is reality in the spiritual world; in my spirit I am healed.
Not I might be, not I hope to be, not maybe, I am healed.
I do not relate to the physical, I do not relate to my five senses, I do not relate to my flesh
It is the spirit that I am relating to and it is real and it is faith that has made it real to me
Faith gives me the ability to look inside the realm of the spirit, faith gives me a picture in which I can view the spirit and when you the ability to look inside the spirit you are able to perceive spiritual truths that make you free.
Grasp this
Faith is seeing and seeking those things that you believe God has promised to give you through his word and when you believe that, when you believe that all the promises of God are yea in him and amen in him unto the glory of God by us then your faith becomes a bridge from the spiritual world unto the physical world.
Heb 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Hear the word of God
Faith is substance, substance means it is tangible, it is something to be held, it is reality and it is real
Faith is made up of substance and it is the reality of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen
The word of God does not say that it is the evidence of things that do not exist, they do exist but they exist in a realm that can not be seen.
Here is revelation,
Everything that you can see was created by someone that you can not see and was made out of things that you can not see.
Heb 11:3
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
I need you to grasp this, everything that can be seen, everything that exists in the universe, everything that exists in the world, the trees, the rocks the mountains, the meadows, the plains, you and I.
Every thing tangible that can be seen in this world, that we can see, hear, taste, feel, and smell was made out of things that do not appear.
Here is revelation; every thing physical was made out of spiritual substance.
The world was not created out of nothing as most of Gods people believe;
I know that I just shocked 99% of Gods people.
God did not create the world out of nothing; He created it out of things that do not appear in the physical realm
He created it out of spiritual substance and spiritual realities
The word of God proclaims it
Heb 11:3
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
The things that exist in the realm of the spiritual are the things that bring reality to the physical, the things that exist and are real in the spiritual is that which makes things real to you and I in the physical
God is a spirit being and He exists in the spiritual realm and the spiritual realm is a realm in which things are not seen and it is the spiritual realm that is the real reality of all that which is physical.
That which is physical would not exist if it were not for the existence of the spiritual or in other words that which can not be seen.
The spiritual realm is the greater realm of reality, everything in the spiritual is permanent, and every thing in the physical is temporary.
In the spiritual realm nothing ever changes and in the physical realm everything is constantly changing.
The spiritual world existed before the physical world and when this physical world ceases to exist as it now is it is going to be replaced by another world that will be created by spiritual substance again.
If you have been born again for any length of time you understand about the world that is going to be present after the millennium and for the child of God to put on blinders and to believe that the substance of faith is what you can see hear taste feel and smell has no understanding to the reality of faith.
For the child of God to believe that confessing something that is not so,
So that it will become so does not have a true concept of faith and they will never be able to walk in this powerful truth of faith.
The abundance of life that Christ spoke about in
John 10:10
I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
That abundance can only be found in the realm of the spiritual and it is the spiritual that makes it real in the physical, the born again child of God needs to understand that Salvation has been brought to them.
That word Salvation in the Greek is sozo and it is an all inclusive word meaning all things pertaining to life and godliness have been given to you as a child of God
Forgiveness, healing, deliverance and prosperity.
2 Peter 1:3
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness , through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
You never have to pray about some thing that you already have.
If you are sick and need healing then you need to have understanding that it has already been given and receive that which has been given to you as a child of God through faith, you need to begin to believe that which the word of God states already exists inside of you.
That which He died to give you is real and it exists inside of you.
It is real and it is substance and you need to begin to believe in the existence of things that you can not see, hear, taste, feel, and smell.
Hear the word of God and believe it,
1 Pet 2:24
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
By whose stripes you were healed, were healed is past tense, 200 years ago you were healed and if you are a born again child of God then that healing is already on the inside of you.
And if you can believe, if you can get past your carnal and fleshy realm, if you can get past your five senses, then this power that already exists in the spirit realm, this resurrection power that is already present within you. if you can believe, then faith can give substance, faith can give tangibility, faith can give evidence, and faith can give proof to the things that are not seen and then faith will reach over into that which is spiritual, it will reach over and grasp the spiritual truths and bring it over into the physical and it will become reality.
Faith does not make something that is not so to become so, faith bridges the gap so that which is true in the spiritual becomes reality in the physical
What a powerful truth.