This document discusses two kinds of faith: human faith and God's faith. [1] Human faith relies on human senses and understanding, exemplified by Thomas's doubts. [2] God's faith is given to believers and relies on believing what God says as truth above all else. [3] True faith in God means accepting, believing, and acting on what the Bible says about God, life, ourselves, and everything.
This document discusses two kinds of faith: human faith and God's faith. [1] Human faith relies on human senses and understanding, exemplified by Thomas's doubts. [2] God's faith is given to believers and relies on believing what God says as truth above all else. [3] True faith in God means accepting, believing, and acting on what the Bible says about God, life, ourselves, and everything.
This document discusses two kinds of faith: human faith and God's faith. [1] Human faith relies on human senses and understanding, exemplified by Thomas's doubts. [2] God's faith is given to believers and relies on believing what God says as truth above all else. [3] True faith in God means accepting, believing, and acting on what the Bible says about God, life, ourselves, and everything.
This document discusses two kinds of faith: human faith and God's faith. [1] Human faith relies on human senses and understanding, exemplified by Thomas's doubts. [2] God's faith is given to believers and relies on believing what God says as truth above all else. [3] True faith in God means accepting, believing, and acting on what the Bible says about God, life, ourselves, and everything.
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FAITH
1. TWO KINDS OF FAITH
It is important to understand that there are two kinds of faith. A. Human faith (Thomas kind of faith) B. God kind of faith/ The faith of God A. HUMAN FAITH What is human faith or natural faith? • Human faith or the natural faith is the kind of faith that people who are not saved function with. • It is the faith that uses five human senses: hearing, sight, taste, touch and smell (That means, it is based on the mind) • It’s the faith that believes things that are seen by the physical eyes or that are understandable to the human mind. • According to God, this is not faith at all. God does not function with this kind of faith and He does not want his children to function with it either. • This kind of faith started working after the fall of Adam, after his spirit died. Humans started using their minds and trusting their intelligence above the word of God. • Thomas used this kind of faith when he heard that Jesus Christ had risen from the dead, and refused to believe until he saw him, and put his fingers in his wounds ( John 20:24-30 ). • This kind of faith uses the mind rather than the spirit. • A person who uses this kind of faith is unable to walk with God (Hebrews 11:6 ).
B. THE GOD KIND OF FAITH
What is the God kind of faith?
Where it’s from: The God kind of faith is the kind of faith that is used by God himself. This kind of faith is given to a believer once he is born again. It is part of the recreated spirit of a believer. This kind of faith makes the believer to believe in God the right way and also to believe like God the right way. These two sides of the God kind of faith are revealed in the book of Mark 11:22-24. In verse 23, Jesus shows us a correct way of believing like God, he says when we believe in our hearts, and confess with our mouths, we will get all we confess. This is part of believing like God because God himself believed in his heart, and spoke light into being and it was as He spoke. Then in verse 24 he says, “All that we ask in for in prayer, we should believe that we have received them even before we see them and then we shall have them”. This is another part of believing in God the right way. In other words, you believe that God heard you when you prayed because you know that he is faithful. 2 Corinthians 5:7 says that as long as we are in this world, we walk by faith and not by what we see. 1. WHAT IS FAITH IN GOD? Faith is believing, accepting and acting out what God says in his word. This means that all that God says about himself, life, about you and all things, you accept, you believe it and you act upon it. This is true faith in God.
Example 1 If God would say that the sky is red, but your eyes see it as blue, you have to accept the word of God because He who spoke is God. This means that you have accepted the word of God as the truth that is above every other truth and you have accepted things His way. This means that you will speak of the sky as being red and see it that way by faith, even when you look with the physical eyes, it’s still blue. This means that you do not believe what the eyes see, but you see it red only by faith. You will even begin doing things and speaking as if it is red physically even though it is not so, because he who said it, is God.
Example 2
God has a way in which He sees you. When God sees you, He sees you as his child; He sees you healed, healthy, blessed and rich. He sees you living as an heir as His son or daughter in Christ. Faith is seeing yourself as God sees you. You have to live according to the way God sees you.e.g. If you did not have money and people called you poor, and you even saw yourself that way before you were born again, now after you are born again, you have to start reading the bible so that you know how God sees you. Start seeing yourself blessed and rich and calling yourself like that too, because God sees you like that. Start living as though you are rich and then do things like a rich person. Start giving to the needy because the rich in the kingdom of God do that. Do not look at yourself the way you see yourself with your physical eyes. If you start doing that, you will see things begin to take the shape of your faith actions and words. If you are sick, start speaking and living like a healed person. This will cause healing to come to your body. You have to start speaking your healing and doing things like a healed person. An example is if you are a person who walks with crutches, start walking without them and start proclaiming healing for your body. You might feel weak in the beginning, but if you maintain your faith confession and speak life to your situation on a daily basis, then you will begin to see a difference in your body.
What do we say about the pain you are still feeling in your body and the need that is still evident in your life? These are just deceiving signs, because they are against the word of God. You have to ignore them and only believe what the word of God says. (John 17:17… “Sanctify them by the truth, your word is truth.”) When God says, “I am the all powerful God, I made the heavens and the earth”, Faith says, “You are The All Powerful God, You made the heavens and the earth”. You don’t try to find reasons how that happened. When God says you are my child and you have the same rights as my first born son Jesus Christ, faith says, “I am a son or daughter of God, I have the same rights as Jesus Christ in Gods family.” You believe this truth, you confess it and act upon it, then this truth will start manifesting in your physical life.
