Hope for Healing, Faith for Living Podcast

The Life I Now Live, I Live By Faith Part 2

Where Does Faith Come From?

Romans 10:17

It’s important to see that faith comes. Faith is real. It’s not an emotion. It’s not an idea. It’s something that’s real that comes to us, that is imparted into our spirits from God with which we believe God and act on his Word.

In Acts 3 we see Peter and John giving testimony to how a man lame from birth was healed.

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

WEB “Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.”

KJV “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”

Faith is the conviction, the proof, the evidence of things not seen. This is like a term used in a trial. What’s presented in trial as evidence is to consider so that you can get to the truth and reach a correct verdict. You have physical evidence presented and you also have evidence you can’t see, a witness giving testimony.

It’s words that become evidence and the weight those words carry depend on the one whose words they are. 

The Word of God is the evidence, the proof revealing the truth of God. It’s His Word that we live by. Jesus himself said, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.”

Let’s break it down a little. First I want to share with you that faith is an obedience.

Romans 16:25-27

25 Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages 26 but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith— 27 to the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.

Faith is an obedience. We live a life of obedience, of submission to Christ. That is what the life of faith is.

Whatever the Word of God says is true. We believe it. Whatever the Word of God says we do, we do. Who the Word of God says we are in Christ, we take on that identity.

My thoughts, my actions, how I see God, how I see myself, all is surrendered in obedience to the truth of God’s Word. That’s living by faith.

There is an obedience of faith. There is a yielding to the truth of God which we live by. 

Obedience To The Word Is How We Live By Faith

Living by faith means you live by something other than what you see. 

The Bible says, faith is the evidence of things not seen. 

Can you think of what evidence can be that you can’t see? Words. In a trial, somebody can be called in to give a testimony and a testimony is used as evidence. It’s nothing that you can see but it’s what you can hear, and it’s what you hear based on the credibility of who said it can determine what is truth.

What we believe determines what we do. 

We also have to strive to have a right understanding of the Word by looking for more than one scripture on that topic or truth so that we can see them in light of all the Scriptures which helps us have a right understanding.


Blessings,
Tim Dumas
www.hopeforhealingfaithforliving.com