More Word More Faith

Faith is defined as the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen, according to Hebrews 11:1.

But what is this substance? What’s this evidence? I was tired of cramming the verse just to say, and thankfully God opened my eyes.

What shows that someone owns a plot of land? A land title! This is a document that confirms a plot number, in whose names it is, when it was purchased, and the signatories.

The Word of God is like that land title given you. It has His signature on it. Extravagant possessions that He created for you to inherit once you came of knowledge and age on this earth.

Now talking about land, just because a friend of yours doesn’t see that land doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Just because they haven’t seen the title doesn’t mean the land is air!

Obviously, we humans have witnessed circumstances where people are given fake land titles of non existent plots, or plots being owned by other men.

Thankfully, this is when we remember that our God isn’t a man that He should lie.

Now Hebrews 11:3 says, ‘By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.’

Here we see a close relationship between the Word and faith. If we howbeit substitute faith’s definition, you realize that it is saying ‘By the evidence of things unseen, we understand that the worlds were framed.’

What evidence? The written evidence that Jesus bore your sin that you’d become the very righteousness of God. The written evidence that Jesus bore your sickness that you’d become the very healthy of God. The written evidence says wealth and riches are in your house, so whatever else you’re seeing contrary to that, is a lie!

You realize that if you get the evidence, and believe it, it will FRAME (construct, compose & position visually within a fixed boundary) your world. A new world will emerge. As others cry of poverty, the evidence you’ve believed will levitate you in abundance.

As others cry of regression, you won’t relate because a world of favor has elevated you. The evidence of God’s written word will have constructed for you a whole new normal that (by the way) will be seen by those around you. (1 Tim 4:15)

Verse 6 of Hebrews 11 goes on to say, ‘Without faith it is impossible to please God. For He that comes to Him must believe that He is, and a rewarder of those who seek Him.’ This still means ‘Without the evidence of the things unseen, it is impossible to please God.’

For example; Many people come in pride on a daily asking God to forgive them, yet not knowing that He forgot the sin they ever did and ever will. See this;

Hebrews 8:12 They’ll get to know me by being kindly forgiven, with the slate of their sins forever wiped clean. (msg)

Note; ‘forever’… God in His mind knows there are better things to talk about than your wrong doings. You’d rather show up and keep quiet and let Him speak if you have nothing to say.

Other parts say God forgave us for His own sake. Imagine loving someone you know will break your heart many times. To sustain that love, you have to overlook all the wrong that person could ever do to you.

That’s the evidence. If we can’t believe it, we may be loved by Him, but we won’t please Him. That means we will stop ourselves from receiving the reward He gives as mentioned in Hebrews 11:6, for we would not have believed (firstly) that He is. (That He is a forgiver of our past present and future faults…)

Another example would be; men who don’t know that by Jesus’ stripes they were healed and so continue to beg for healing. (1 Pet 2:24)

God gets frustrated, wondering what to do. He already gave. He can’t give again. Even if He does, He wants you to know that your healing is with you and not Him. But if you don’t know what the evidence says; He can only say, ‘My people perish because of the lack of knowledge’—the knowledge of what I’ve done. The knowledge of what is available.

Lastly, Romans 10:17 says, ‘Faith comes by hearing and by hearing the Word.’ In other words, the more Word we hear, the more we hear the evidence of the life we are to experience.

The more we hear this evidence, the more we refuse to settle for less, believing instead for this unseen thing; which soon becomes visible as Hebrews 11:3 stated.

The more the evidence, the more the faith to believe for it. If God gave you a land title, and then you drove to that specific location of the plots of land and saw them, the journey taken on the road to see them ceases to matter.

Now imagine, while at that plot, God gives you other 5 land titles. Will you doubt that they don’t exist? NO! You’ll have received word of evidence of their existence. The first land-piece’s being existent will persuade you to know that the rest as well do, and so to fulfill your belief, you’ll drive to those other locations to see them and think about what activities you’ll do in them.

So, in a nutshell; More Word, More Evidence.

More Evidence, More Faith!

There can’t be faith without the foundation of God’s Word!