What is faith? You know the song “you gotta have faith.” People say all the time “believe in yourself.” Manifesting what you want, visualizing, you’ve already heard it all! But what does it MEAN?! My thoughts exactly here are three things I've learned and am still learning about growing this faith muscle.
Faith means you have a vision.
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
Hebrews 11:1
To have faith, you must be looking further than your circumstances. You must see beyond what is and into what can be! Faith requires focusing on your vision NOT on what already is.
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
2 Corinthians 4:18
2. Faith takes action!
Faith prepares for what you are hoping for and you become ready to recieve it.
14-17 Dear friends, do you think you’ll get anywhere in this if you learn all the right words but never do anything? Does merely talking about faith indicate that a person really has it? For instance, you come upon an old friend dressed in rags and half-starved and say, “Good morning, friend! Be clothed in Christ! Be filled with the Holy Spirit!” and walk off without providing so much as a coat or a cup of soup—where does that get you? Isn’t it obvious that God-talk without God-acts is outrageous nonsense?
James 2:14-17 (Message)
3. Faith does not give up!
When you have a vision, when you belive in the vision, when you believe in something with all of your heart, you do not easily give up on it. Even through hardships, disappointments, different routes, delays, you believe. Strong Faith believes no matter what and gives you the strength to continue in the face of fear and doubt. When you have faith you have joy because you understand that bad moments are only temporary! The worse thing someone could ever lose is faith — because that means you have given up! A life without faith is meaningless.
What do you have faith in? What are you believing for?
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way to get the prize.
1 Corinthians 9:24
