FAITH CAPSULE: Living life demands faith.
Hebrews 11
Give yourself to faith and patience.
Faith drives you to seek diligently and find God at all times.
Hebrews 11:1 records faith as “the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1)
Faith has a source. Romans 10:17 records, “…faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
Word of God has a place in one who hears, and hears the Word of God.
Also, when one does not give to hearing and hearing the Word of God, one will experience the departure of such.
Living life demands constant engagement with faith and patience according to the Word of God.
Living life with faith and patience, the Word of God gives life to the just ones.
Habakkuk 2:4 buttresses: “…the just shall live by his faith.”
All that pertains to living life is living by the Word of God (living by faith). The Word states: we walk by faith, not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7);we watch, stand by faith (1 Corinthians 16:13);faith purifies the heart (Acts 15:9);we get saved by faith through grace (Ephesians 2:8)
Patience with faith, or faith with patience, is crucial to living life to gain and retain God.
Patience is the ability or willingness to suppress restlessness or annoyance when confronted with delay.
Patience is steady perseverance (steady persistence)
God is Longsuffering God, the character of having patience.
Numbers 14:18 records of God,“The Lord is longsuffering and abundant in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He by no means clears the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.”
Are you patient and longsuffering in the journey of life?
Colossians 1:11 buttresses, “Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy”
Patience will provoke the blessing of God.
Lack of patience denies blessing and often leads to self-destruction.
Do you claim faith but lack patience, or vice versa?
Among the scriptural verses that shed light on the importance of faith and patience, “…you do not become sluggish but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.” (Hebrews 6:12).
Let faith and patience be your way of life.
Faith with patience, as in a journey, is not a wasted life.
Faith is the fuel, while patience is the ignition.
Trust and hope are rooted in faith and patience that deliver the blessing of God.
It is a blessing to trust and hope in God.(Jeremiah 17:7)
Job 14:7 encourages, “For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its tender shoots will not cease.”
What counts one out cannot count as God, who counts better.
Challenges that reduce one cannot be more powerful than God, who reverses the irreversible.
Pray to understand and know to wait on God for His visitation over your life.
God is not partial, but will remember to give His blessing as He did in the past.
Prayer for today: Ask that the faith of God be activated in you always.