Updated 10.09.2010 E.S
Faith
Hebrew.11.3: By faith, we understand that the universe was formed at God’s commands, so that what is seen was not made out of the visible.
We can see out of this verse that it is a way to understand, that is not out of the intellect itself. To understand in the perspective of God, we need to understand by faith. By faith, we understand that the world is made by the word of God and that the invisible was before all the created things. There is a spiritual dimension, that is as real as the physical and the soulical dimensions. There is a dimension outside time and physical space.
By the intellect, we understand that two plus two is four, and by faith, we understand that the world is made out of the word of God. Both are true knowledge that makes us to understand.
God created out of the unseen. He spoke and it happened! He demanded, and it was there!
Some people think, it is easier to understand, when they add millions of years; but these years can never explain away God.
God created and he created in love, and he want to have a relationship with each one of us. Don’t expel that reality!
God cares. Let Him do His work in your life! Read also Romans 1.19-20.
More about faith!
Hebrew.11.1: Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain about what we don’t see.
The faith that the Bible talks about, we can’t produce our selves. But when we hear the word of God, faith is created by God in our hearts( faith comes by hearing the word of God: Romans 10.17) The spirit of God; The Holy Spirit is making the words living for us, in such a way that we get knowledge, we didn’t have before.
Because of faith, given us by God, we see the world in a different way and out of that it comes also; that we even make other plans , that we never had done without this information.
Faith belongs to the spiritual dimension. Man is not only a body with personality connected to that, but has also a spirit that means we are made to live eternally. God put the eternity in mans heart when he created him.
The Holy Spirit makes the words of God to be alive within us. This is called, in the Bible, revelation. When God reveal His word for us, we start to believe; we get faith.
Also when God speaks personally to you and me, we can trust in Him.-By acting in faith on what God gives us, we even can see new things be real out of the unseen, because God is working with His word and confirming it! Our part is being obedient; speaking and doing according to the word of God, which represents his will.
When God said something, he also stands behind what he has spoken. He is never leaving us. But without being bold and doing what he says, we will never know what it’s like to live in faith.
Faith includes; daring to trust in God. Then we start to move and get experiences about who he is. Then it is exiting to live.
Faith and prayer
Matthew 6.5-6: But when you pray, do not be like the the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have recieved their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close your door and pray to your father, who is unseen. Then your father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
Because we believe in God, we believe in the Bible, we believe in Jesus, we believe in The Holy Spirit. And because the Bible says something we do that, and when we do that, it happen what the Bible tells us is going to happen.
When I pray, not to be seen by men, but to be heard by God, he carefully listen and he is answering and let it be known in the visible. Both you and others will know that you are a believer, because signs and wonders will follow a believer acording to Mark 16.15-18.
The one who has faith, he will pray, and the one who is praying, he will get! (Matthew 7.7)
