Faith- Part 1

How many of you guys have seen the Santa clause movies? The ones with Tim Allen? Well, their is one line that his little boy tells him in every movie; and every time that I watch that's what I'm always thinking about after it's over. "Seeing isn't believing, believing is seeing." Now what exactly does that mean? You don't have to see something to believe it, but you have to believe something to be able see it.

Today I want to talk to you about faith. About the Santa clause quote from earlier. In our lives today that could be interpreted as this. When you see a miracle happen, like someone being healed of blindness, or someone is miraculously healed of cancer. You can think of a lot of reasons why that happened, but they won't be the right ones unless you have faith in God. See, without our faith we would be nothing. Everything that we saw we would have a 'logical' conclusion for it. Not a faith-based one.

Faith:
1.

confidence or trust in a person or thing: faith in another's ability.

2.

belief that is not based on proof: He had faith that the hypothesis would be substantiated by fact.

3.

belief in God or in the doctrines or teachings of religion: the firm faith of the Pilgrims.

4.

belief in anything, as a code of ethics, standards of merit, etc.: to be of the same faith with someone concerning honesty.

5.

a system of religious belief: the Christian faith; the Jewish faith.

Their are five different kinds of meanings that faith has. But I only want to focus on numbers 2, 3, and 5.
Number two says that faith is a belief that is not based on proof. When God told Abraham that he was going to have children, Abraham did not have any physical proof that it was going to happen. He was over 100 years old, and his wife was well past child-bearing years. But they put their faith in God and he worked the impossible.
Number three says that faith is belief in God or in the doctrines or teachings of religion. We have faith in God. We can not see Him, we cannot feel Him, we cannot hear Him, we cannot smell Him, the five senses do not pick up God. But our Spirit-man does! We have faith in Him, and we have faith in His word!
Number five says that faith is a system of religious belief. We have to have faith to believe in something. For us to be able to boldly proclaim that we are Christians, we have to have faith our religion, we have to have faith in what we believe in.


Faith."Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase."- Martin Luther King Jr.
As that wise man said, we have to take the first step. Stepping out in faith may feel impossible but God does the impossible every single day! So why should today be different? Even though we can't see the end, we can't see the prize yet; we can step forward. Even though you can't see the whole staircase, your not going to get anywhere by just standing there. You have to make a decision to take that first step. No matter what it is, if it's reaching out to someone that you have avoided on purpose for years. Or if your taking the first step towards building your business. Whatever it is God is right their. He is waiting for you make that decision. He won't push you, He can not force to do anything. You. You have to do that on your own. And when you finally decide to do that, God will be right there to guide you. Put your faith in the Lord. What do have to lose?
"If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is the key  to victory." - William Hazlitt