admin“But how then do we please Him?” You might ask. Our answer can only come from the Bible. The Word of God says in Hebrews 11:6 : And without faith it is not possible to be well-pleasing to him, for it is necessary for anyone who comes to God to have the belief that God is, and that he is a rewarder of all those who make a serious search for him.
This scripture sums it up for us. If you are going to please God, there is a serious need for us to have this faith that the scripture says we should do have so that we are well pleasing to Him. I want to please God. I want Him to look down from His throne and nod His head when He sees me living this life.
So what is this faith? Hebrews 11:1 says Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. In other words, this faith we are talking about is a force
which lives in the reality of physically non-existent phenomenon. What faith does is that it brings substances which your natural mind would have perceived to be in the future and brings them to the now.
One example that I was taught was that if anybody has a house or some property, he/she does not necessarily have to walk around with the house in their bag or the property
in their pocket to prove that they have it. That would be very much physically impossible to say the least. So, this house-owner would simply carry a title deed which shows that they are the legal owner of the house in question.
Faith then is the title deed that you carry around to prove that you own certain things. If the doctor said you are HIV positive but then the Word of God says that you were healed by the stripes of Jesus, you then use this title deed called faith to prove to the devil that healing belongs to you. If your pockets say that you are broke, you use the evidence called faith to prove to them that you are entirely rich!
Many Christians don’t seem to grasp this. They spend a lifetime waiting for miracles to happen somewhere in the future. But faith is not in the future. Faith is now! If you are walking in faith it means that if you want to pass your exams then you have passed them already before you even write them. Putting things into the future is not faith; that is hope. Hope is good by the way but it will never give us anything — it simply satisfies our subconscious mind by telling us that we will get what we want in the future.
Hope can be frustrating. The Word of God actually says in Proverbs 13:12 that Hope put off makes the heart sick. In other words if you push your breakthroughs into the future and they do not manifest, you will be heart-sick (heart-broken). So if I was you I would begin to call forth those things which I had put into the future into the now. Begin to talk like the person you want to become, act like the business woman you want to be before you even have a cent! Begin reading magazines on financial investment, dress the part, do something to familiarise your mind with the future you hoped for! That is faith in action!
Another point that would be critical to understand is that faith does not just believe like most people have thought. James tells us in 2:19 that You believe that there is one God, you do well; even the demons believe and tremble. Even the demons believe in the power of God, evil as they are, meaning that there is something more that we need to do to our faith. In the same chapter, in James 2:20-21, it says But will you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
When you say that you have faith, you then have to add your works to it so that it’s not just a belief because beliefs will not get us what we want. You will have to decide to act on the Word of God like the example we are given of Abraham. Abraham is told of the promise but then God expects him to do a seemingly impossible act of sacrificing his son so that God brings the promise to pass. You might not have to sacrifice anyone yourself but you are going to have to work your faith out — put some action to it.
The major thrust of what I am talking about here is that you need to believe in God and act like it. Do not put anything that you have wanted to do into the future; you have it now so begin to act like it!
Until the next time, let’s chop it up on Facebook.
Remember, saying yes to one thing is saying no to another; choose well.
BRUCE ITAI CHIMANI is a BSc in Journalism and Media Studies student at NUST.
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Blog: www.bruceitaichimani.wordpress.com
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