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The Righteous Shall Live By Faith


I asked before, what are you believing God for?  Now, I’m going to take it one step further and ask what are you living like you believe God for?  From the outside looking in, what might a friend say about what you believe God for?  Are you working toward something that is bigger than you, and you continue to press in and press on, knowing that God will help you along the way? 



To truly live by faith, we have to be willing to live with a bigger vision than we could ever truly accomplish.  Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not yet seen.  Well, I don’t hope for things that I can do on my own.  I don’t hope to make it to the store and buy food when I have a pocket full of money and a car to get there.  I hope for what I don’t have.   I hope for things for my future and my family.  




The evidence of things not yet seen, I believe is the action behind the belief that we will have what we hope for.  If you are hoping for a healthy body, then no matter where you are along that journey, the evidence is in the fact that you get up and go for a walk and cook a nutritious meal.  You are not there yet, but the proof is in the pudding.  You are on your way.  You have taken step one and step two. 




I know that sometimes I want God to just drop the blessing right in my lap and say “here you go, my love.”  But it doesn’t always work like that.   Faith works like this:  We get a bigger vision than we can handle (hope for) and then we start, little by little, working toward making it happen (evidence) and God faithfully handles the rest.  Simple.  Too Simple, perhaps.  But it works.  




Now, get out there and get a bigger vision for your life.  Get something that only the hand of God could ever accomplish.  




God bless you friends.

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