Sunday, October 12, 2014

The Fruit of the Spirit - FAITH


Faith: persuasion, i.e. credence; moral conviction (of religious truth, or the truthfulness of God or a religious teacher), especially reliance upon Christ for salvation; constancy in such profession; by extension the system of religious (Gospel) truth itself; -assurance, belief, believe faith, fidelity. (Greek Dictionary of the New Testament)

The author of the letter to the Hebrew believers said this:

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1NKJV)

And I love this in the Amplified version…

Now faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses]. (Hebrews 11:1AMP)

FAITH!!!!! Faith is not some whimsical belief in things we hope in; faith is substantive, evidential, credibility, proof, a confirmation of truth. It is a gift from God, placed inside of us, that confirms what we do not yet see.
Hallelujah!

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