faith works in the heart. we need to understand that faith is a spiritual force. it works in the heart (unconscious) of man. it does not work in the head (conscious). mental assent works in the head. some mistake it for faith. but mental assent is not faith.
mental assent working in the head says: “Yes, that’s in the Bible.” but they do not really believe it. if it is only in the head, you do not really believe it. mental assent says: “Yes, it’s truth, because it’s the Bible.”
but is it truth in your life?
“Well, no, it really isn’t true in me.”
then it is not yet in your spirit.
if you have that faith of God in you, it will produce the reality of that thing. but it has to be in the spirit (heart/sc).
here is something that many have never understood. just because you believe the scripture is in the Bible does not mean the promise is going to be true in your life. you must develop yourself in faith regarding that promise. again, just finding something in the Bible does not mean you have faith to believe for it. just saying: “I believe the Scriptures” does not make it come true in your life.
faith is not blind. faith always sees and faith always knows. what some people call “blind faith” is presumption – and presumption is blind. what some Christians call “faith” is not faith at all. it is foolishness. they just assume that something will happen, not because they have faith in God’s Word, but because of what happened to some other person.
some have done things acting in what they thought was faith, because someone else did it. “Well, Brother So-and-So gave his car away and he got a new one. I’m going to give mine away.”
yes, and you may walk for ten months.
do not ever base your faith and journey on what someone else did. do not base what you are doing on someone else’s faith.
you have to hear from God. you see, God may have told Brother So-and-So to do what he did. but did He tell you to do that? when you check up on some of these things, you will find that is why so many have what they call “faith failures”. it was not faith at all. they just did it because someone else did it, or because somebody else got blessed. it makes a difference when you do things because of the Word of God and understanding your own personal journey.
