FAITH IS!

FAITH IS - Bishop Jim McIver

There is a journey that each of us should embark upon.  It is not an overnight, across town journey.  It is a journey called faith!  This faith journey is such a necessity that it will/should take a life time to walk it out.  As you continually search out and discover faith during this journey, be sure to hide it in a safe place and exercise it as often as possible and as necessary.  Your heart is the safest place for this faith to reside.  This faith that I am about to unveil to you can be used in every area of your life!  This faith causes you to reign in life as an over-comer!

This faith can keep you saved, healed and delivered!  This faith will deliver you from depression, suicidal tendencies, fear, doubt and unbelief!  This faith will help keep your children saved, keep you anointed and cause you to walk out peace and joy.  This faith will cause you to appropriate promises, fulfill destiny, support the work of the Kingdom and serve others in your church.  This faith will help you to resist the enemy and obey God in every area.  

After receiving Christ, this journey of faith is one of the most important one you will ever take!  You can operate successfully in this faith once you understand it and how it works.  The scriptures below provide great truth and examples of what I am teaching on.  This is a short version of a life time venture/discovery!  

Are you ready?  Let's start the journey!

What Is Faith?

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

FAITH IS supernatural!  FAITH IS tangible!  FAITH IS evidence!  FAITH IS substance!  FAITH IS heart knowledge!  Faith changes you! Faith changes everything!

 

Where Does Faith Come From?

 Faith comes from Jesus. Faith comes into your heart through hearing the Word of God taught.  Also, study your Bible and Stay in church services to hear the word of God ministered.

Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Where Is Faith?  What Does Faith Do? 

Romans 10:10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

 

FAITH comes into your heart by the word and Spirit of God.  FAITH speaks it's substance and it's evidence that is in the heart! We believe, therefore we speak!

Faith In Action

Mark 10:46 And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimæus, the son of Timæus, sat by the highway side begging. 47 And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me. 48 And many charged him that he should hold his peace: but he cried the more a great deal, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me. 49 And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called. And they call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good comfort, rise; he calleth thee. 50 And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus. 51 And Jesus answered and said unto him, What wilt thou that I should do unto thee? The blind man said unto him, Lord, that I might receive my sight. 52 And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole. And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.

Bartimæus was blind, sitting by the wayside and begging. But the blind, wayside beggar heard about Jesus;  He heard the word, he heard that the blind man Healer was passing by. What he heard ignited faith in his heart.  He could no longer sit and be quiet!  Something happened in his heart!  His heart felt faith did something!  He cried out, he summoned the Son of God!  The crowd tried to shut him up.  But, he would not allow the skeptics to silence him. 

Bartimaeus knew that this was his moment, this was his time of deliverance.  His heart cry of faith caused Jesus to stand still!  Jesus stood still and summoned him to come.  His faith caused him to get up, cast aside his beggar's garment and make his way toward Jesus!  When faith comes, you will get up!

His cry of faith  invoked an inquiry:  

51 And Jesus answered and said unto him, What wilt thou that I should do unto thee?  

His faith spoke emphatically what he desired: 

The blind man said unto him, Lord, that I might receive my sight. 52 And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way, thy faith hath made thee whole!  And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.

The heart faith of Bartimaeus worked!  His faith healed him!  His faith made him whole! 

The blind's man faith was the supernatural, tangible, evidence and substance of what he needed!  He needed healing.  So, his faith became his healing until his healing manifested.  When he got faith, he started speaking what faith had become in him. That is the way faith works! 

Faith is the supernatural, tangible, substance and evidence of whatever your need is.  Faith replaces hope and becomes the supernatural, substance, evidence of what is desired or needed.  When faith arrives, you no longer hope because you have the supernatural, tangible, substance and evidence of what you were hoping for.  Faith becomes your healing until your healing manifest.  faith becomes your job, your car, your home or whatever your need is until it manifest.     

After faith has arrived, you will begin to confession what faith has become in you!  When faith arrives, you will no longer confess how sick you are.  You will confess what faith has become in your heart!  You will confess:  I am saved, I am healed, I am mightily anointed of the Holy Ghost, I am a giver, I am a harvester, I have my job, I have my home, I have my car!  My husband or my wife is saved, my children are saved, I live a better life! 

Afterward, he followed Jesus in the way!  He didn't choose his own path, he went the way of the Lord! 

FAITH IS!