I thought this post said that faith does come from the spirit.. please read it again. and i feal this posts says faith has power, not faith comes from power. how would you conclude im saying faith comes from power on what ive wrote here ?.
de-emerald said:
Faith is a force not a work. Have you ever heard a description of faith that sounded like performing well enough, and long enough to ern Gods approval or running for so long and so hard that you eventually cross some unseen invisible line drawn by God ?
Have you ever heard faith portrayed as some sort of spiritual mussle that you have to work strenuously and exaustingly to build up ?
Have you ever heard anyone talking about having enough faith to move God ?
The fact is, Genuine, biblical faith is none of theese things. dont missunderstand---faith is vitally important. Jesus constantly praised it, encouraged it, and was clearly disapointed when his deciples didnt have it.
The new tessertment refers to faith as a multitude of times.
Faith is good and extrraordinarily powerful.
But faith isnt a work that qualifies you to recieve an answer from God.
Faith is a spiritual force that takes holdof the answer God has allready joyfully provided you. Another word for faith is belief.
When we believ God, believe in his utter goodness, kindness, and faithfullness, and believe he is for us, believe his word, believe his sacrifice was sufficient, that faith reaches out and accesses what God has given.
In other words faith isnt something you do to get God to move. Its the calm assurance that he has allready moved, that everything you could ever need has been abundantly supplied.
1 faith is a force
2 God is a force.
3 so are his believers