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Faith

But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. (Hebrews 11:6)

Faith is to be in the Lord, not in spiritual principles. We are to call upon the Lord. The Scriptures do not counsel us to attempt to learn how to manipulate the spiritual realm. The Scriptures direct us to put our faith in the Lord and to wait upon Him. This is a different approach than learning how to work miracles by understanding how the spiritual realm operates.

Faith in the Lord brings glory to the Lord Jesus. The working of spiritual principles exalts the adamic man and leaves him in the bondage of sin and self-will.

Have you ever defined faith as a sort of magic that you can work once you know the tricks? If you have you probably have given up in despair, being somewhat condemned that you "do not have enough faith" to get your answer. Faith is not magic or a metaphysical principle, it is our grasp on God's Character and the faithfulness of His promises.

The Scriptures promise great joy to the believer. One of our favorite passages is as follows:

Delight thyself also in the Lord: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. (Psalms 37:4)

Another is:

For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. (Psalms 84:11)

God will withhold no good thing from the individual who walks uprightly.

We know that God answers prayer. Though it may take a long period of time we are to wait for the answer. In God's Presence there is fullness of joy. He eventually heals all our diseases and fills our mouth with good things. The Lord delivers us from all our afflictions.

Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; (Psalms 103:3)

The key to fullness of joy, to the rewards we hope for and pray for, is faith. Perhaps you have had your hopes deferred and your heart is sick. You may have had to labor in a hated situation for many years. You have trusted that you would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. That expectation has kept you from fainting. But time goes on and on and there is no answer.

How are we proceed? Is it possible we have not known how to press forward in faith? Let us look at some of the comments made in the Book of Hebrews to see how faith in God truly operates.

Confidence

Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. (Hebrews 10:35)

The Word of God makes many outstanding promises to the believer.

And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. (Matthew 21:22)

And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. (John 14:13,14)

Perhaps a Christian told us the above verse is a "blank check." "Just fill in the amount." We did, and nothing happened.

Why did nothing take place? Is the Word of God not true? Don't we have enough "faith"?

The Word of God is always true. Heaven and earth shall pass away but the Word of the Lord Jesus never shall pass away.

What, then, is the solution?

The solution is we are not to cast away our confidence for it shall be richly rewarded.

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-=== Easter - When did Jesus Resurrect ===
+=== Faith ===
-In our first Scripture, Psalm 16:10, the Spirit speaks through His prophet
+But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. (Hebrews 11:6)
-David, as though he were Jesus speaking to God, "You will not leave My soul in hell; neither will You suffer Your Holy One to see corruption".
-Jesus knew by revelation that He was God's Holy One prophesied by David. And he also knew that corruption sets in to the human body within 72 hours after death.
-So when the Jews asked in John 2:18-19, "What sign will You show us?" He answered and said, "Destroy this temple, and in THREE days I will raise it up".
-Jesus knew His part was to die as Adam's near Kinsman to redeem Adam's fallen race, and to be the first-born from the grave. And being familiar with the prophets, He was confident His soul would ascend from the realms of the departed and that God must raise His body within 72-hours before corruption could set it.
-In our third text, Matthew 12:38-40, "Some scribes and Pharisees asked, 'Master, we would see a sign from You'.
-But He answered and said, 'An evil and adulterous generation seek after a sign; and there shall be no sign given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonah: For as Jonah was THREE days and THREE nights in the fish's belly; so shall the Son of man be THREE days and THREE nights in the heart of the earth'."
-Taking the FIXED dates and FIXED days provided by Scripture we are going to prove when our Lord's body arose from the grave.
-Let's quote a fourth witness of Scripture: Matthew 16:20-21, "From the time Jesus acknowledged Peter's revelation of the true Oneness of the godhead which unlocks the Kingdom of heaven in a new birth, He warned His disciples not to share the revelation with outsiders. From then on, Jesus began to speak plainly to them, of how He must go to Jerusalem and suffer at the hands of the Jewish leaders, and be killed, and be raised again the THIRD day".
-These four witnesses of Scripture appear to be a contradiction, if we take the "rhema" or letter of these Words. But the "three days and three nights" cannot mean a precise time of 72-hours, for Jesus said, "I will be raised again the THIRD day". That is, within 72-hours. In rabbinical thought, a day and a night make one "onah", and a part of an onah is as the whole. (This is adequately borne out by such Scriptures as 2 Kings 20:29 2 Chronicles 10:5, 2 Chr 10:12 and Esther 4:16; Esther 5:1, which are common approximations wherein a number of days and nights equate so many days. These Scriptures establish that Jesus meant WITHIN three days and nights or part thereof, and on the THIRD day, He must resurrect.
+Faith is to be in the Lord, not in spiritual principles. We are to call upon the Lord. The Scriptures do not counsel us to attempt to learn how to manipulate the spiritual realm. The Scriptures direct us to put our faith in the Lord and to wait upon Him. This is a different approach than learning how to work miracles by understanding how the spiritual realm operates.
-Matthew 17:23; Mark 9:31 and Luke 24:21 state that He will rise upon the third day). There are so many more FIXES, I feel as if I'm on the yacht, doing some coastwise navigation, and in that manner we'll draw a "cocked hat", and let the Scripture prove by Scripture that we're not lost in its sea of Words.
-Before we can take any measurements, we must first decide upon a common scale of time. Whereas in the Western world, we calculate our day from midnight to midnight, the Hebrews calculate their day from sunset to sunset. Their "evening" is from 3:00pm to 6:00pm, taking sunset arbitrarily as 6:00pm. So their Saturday night would be our Friday night because their days commence at sunset, so that the evening precedes the morning. Tricky, I know.
-'''Continue Reading''' [[Easter - When did Jesus Resurrect]]
+Faith in the Lord brings glory to the Lord Jesus. The working of spiritual principles exalts the adamic man and leaves him in the bondage of sin and self-will.
+Have you ever defined faith as a sort of magic that you can work once you know the tricks? If you have you probably have given up in despair, being somewhat condemned that you "do not have enough faith" to get your answer. Faith is not magic or a metaphysical principle, it is our grasp on God's Character and the faithfulness of His promises.
+The Scriptures promise great joy to the believer. One of our favorite passages is as follows:
+Delight thyself also in the Lord: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. (Psalms 37:4)
+Another is:
+For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. (Psalms 84:11)
+God will withhold no good thing from the individual who walks uprightly.
+We know that God answers prayer. Though it may take a long period of time we are to wait for the answer. In God's Presence there is fullness of joy. He eventually heals all our diseases and fills our mouth with good things. The Lord delivers us from all our afflictions.
+Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; (Psalms 103:3)
+The key to fullness of joy, to the rewards we hope for and pray for, is faith. Perhaps you have had your hopes deferred and your heart is sick. You may have had to labor in a hated situation for many years. You have trusted that you would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. That expectation has kept you from fainting. But time goes on and on and there is no answer.
+How are we proceed? Is it possible we have not known how to press forward in faith? Let us look at some of the comments made in the Book of Hebrews to see how faith in God truly operates.
+Confidence
+Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. (Hebrews 10:35)
+The Word of God makes many outstanding promises to the believer.
+And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. (Matthew 21:22)
+And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. (John 14:13,14)
+Perhaps a Christian told us the above verse is a "blank check." "Just fill in the amount." We did, and nothing happened.
+Why did nothing take place? Is the Word of God not true? Don't we have enough "faith"?
+The Word of God is always true. Heaven and earth shall pass away but the Word of the Lord Jesus never shall pass away.
+What, then, is the solution?
+The solution is we are not to cast away our confidence for it shall be richly rewarded.
+'''Continue Reading''' [[Faith]]
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