"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seem"
Hebrews 11:1 NKJV
Fear is Satan's weapon to paralyse us; faith is God's weapon to mobilise us. Total opposites, in fact, the devil will always endeavour to promote what is opposite to God's Word. This is why RT Kendall says, 'Imagine what the devil would want you to do, then do the opposite.' RT goes on to say that this approach is one of the best ways to know the will of God. For instance, the devil does not want you to pray and read the bible. So, what do you do? Yep, you pray and read your bible. This way you have victory.
We need to develop our faith. It is the proof of what is not seen. To exercise faith is to have confidence about something happening without any visible evidence that it will happen. All the way through the bible you will find men and women just like us, who did extraordinary things by having faith in God. Take for example Peter and John at the Gate Beautiful (Acts 3:1-8). A lame man was begging and Peter said to him, 'Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk' v6. And he did. The man was totally healed. Peter exercised his faith. He was no different to us, in fact, a few weeks earlier he had blatantly denied that he had anything to do with Jesus, to save his own skin. Yet, when he repented and spent time with Jesus later on, he was changed.
You may think, that was in bible times; that would never happen now. But it does, all over the world people are being healed and some, raised from the dead. Probably the difference is, we would never dream of doing this when a beggar approached us in town for some money. And, if we did, think of it, we would probably be too afraid or embarrassed to try it. This is why it doesn't happen.
If we want to see miracles happen, then we must develop and gain the confidence in Jesus that we could do this. 'It may not work', you may say. But it might, if you have the faith to try it. The time in this world is gradually coming to a close. Many believe we are living in the End Times. Therefore, we need to become mobilised with Jesus' weapon of faith. Don't forget that, 'without faith, it is impossible to please Him' (Hebrews 11:6) So, walk by the faith God has given you.
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