The Substance of your Faith

Ever wondered why, at times, you ask for things from God with faith in your heart, and yet it seems like God doesn’t move to answer, or other times when you receive - with great enthusiasm and expectation - God’s promises and they don’t seem forthcoming. It makes you wonder, could the problem be from God? Definitely not! What about you at the receiving end? It seems to you that you have set yourself ready enough to receive God’s blessings… but I say that after believing God’s word in your heart, something else should be done…

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
 -  Heb. 11:1 (emphasis added)

Now note the word ‘substance’. Yes, we have faith in our heart, but scriptures tell us that the ‘proof of our faith’ should be a substance in our hands.

Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. - James 2:17

So many Biblical illustrations can explain this.

- Jesus Christ, our great example showed this in the feeding of the multitude (Mark 6:30-44, 8:1-10, Luke 9:10-17). He could have simply asked God to provide food, and of course God could have answered. But he didn’t, instead he first asked the disciples, “what do we have” he got together 5 loaves of bread and 2 fishes, then presented it unto God as a substance of their faith.
- At the tomb of Lazarus, Jesus could have just gotten there, prayed and commanded Lazarus to come forth, but no he didn’t, why? He needed a faith substance, so what did he do, he ordered the stone be rolled away first.
These and many more show examples when men who put forth a substance to ‘validate’ their faith in God.
You ask “what else have I not done?”, but God asks “where is the substance of your faith?”, “where is the proof that you believe?”
So whenever you are expecting from God and you are yet to receive, check and see if you have put anything forward to God and ask yourself “where is the Substance of my Faith?”

GOD BLESS


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