Luke 18:8 – I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of man comes, will he find faith on the earth?

Luke 18:8 – I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly.  However, when the Son of man comes, will he find faith on the earth?

There has been much taught about faith.  I have been learning and teaching on faith for many of my ministerial years.  My early years of discipleship were spent studying “the word of faith”, ingesting the word of God so I could and would see the power of God in my life and in the life of my family.  Over the 37 years of being a Christian, I can pinpoint some things in my life that occurred because of faith and particularly because of my faith.  My parents and my brother all received Christ before their departure from earth, our two sons have grown into tremendous men with lovely wives and lovelier children, J all loving God.  My husband I enjoy a life of ministry that together we have co-labored for 25 years.  We are ready to celebrate 45 years of marriage with the past 11 1/2 years being our most challenging ones.  We are still standing and living by faith. 

I have always believed that to preach a message effectively, it must be more than theory.  There needs to be an experiential factor that is the component of any person’s message.  So, as I begin this blog, I want to look at faith in a new way. Why? It is because the church and our world are in a place of history where it has never been before.  We are seeing things in the public square of media that we have never seen so brazenly portrayed on a screen whether it is a movie screen, a TV screen, a smart phone screen, a computer screen, etc. 

We cannot live today’s challenges or tomorrow’s dreams on the faith we had yesterday.  We all need a fresh impartation of faith.  Join me on this journey as I follow Holy Spirit on this venture of faith. 

Just what is faith?  

Hebrews 11:1 says that “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen.”  The New Living Translation says it like this, “Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.” 

 

Faith is not a form a worship towards God, but a substance of the heart that believes the God that we worship.  Stay with me as I pursue this journey of faith.