“The road to salvation
is the road to faith;
Seek now the answers to your questions,
ask for guidance and whatever it is that can fill your doubts.
God cannot save you.
Only your faith in God ever can.”
What do you believe in? Is your faith strong enough?
Some people believe in God, some people don’t. Some people believe in the law of attraction, others don’t.
But not all people who say they believe in God truly put their FAITH in God at all times. Not all people who believe in God believe Him to be a good and perfect God of unconditional love. That is why when moments of trials come, these people can easily blame their own God. Why blame God when you believe God is good? Why feel helpless when you believe that the All-Powerful God loves you? Why be afraid? Why be unhappy?
Without faith, man is like a lost leaf being tossed about by the wind. With FAITH however, man can do the impossible!
With faith, mountains can be moved, miracles can take place. And even when all else seems dark and hopeless, the man who has a strong faith is happy. He is happy because he believes that things will turn out in his favor.
“I have faith in my abilities,” a man says. And so he remains confident no matter how many people try to persuade him against his dreams.
“I have faith in my beloved,” a woman says. And so she remains happy and at peace even if someone says bad things against her husband.
Faith heals. Faith makes a way where there seems to be no way.
For a man who believes that God gave us all the power and the freedom to reach for the deepest desires of our hearts, there is nothing that cannot be achieved. Success and happiness will be with him always. He will not sabotage his own victories. He will not feel unworthy of all the blessings being showered upon him. His faith has opened up for him the gates of prosperity and joy and no one can steal his happiness away from him.
A man who believes in the abundance of the Universe will never be poor. THE LORD PROVIDES, he proclaims. Even when robbers steal his money away, he will not remain penniless. His treasures will come back to him and he will be even richer than before.
Such a man’s faith is not anchored in the material things that he possess. His faith is in heavenly riches that no thief can ever take way from him.
Where is your FAITH? Would you like to believe in the goodness of life? Would you like to believe you can be happy and victorious? Choose your faith, forge it, and then be blessed!
‘According to your faith, be it done unto you’, Jesus said.
HOW DO WE OVERCOME OUR UNBELIEF?
A child is having a seizure, he foams at the mouth and gnashes his teeth, he is thrown to the ground and lays as rigid as a rock. Meanwhile, the disciples of Jesus gather around him, praying, laying their hands and shouting words of affirmation, trying to cast away the evil spirit that has possessed the child. Still, the child rolled around, foaming at the mouth. The disciples couldn’t drive away the malady. After all the miracles they’ve seen through Jesus, after all the miracles they have performed themselves, they stand defeated and confused.
Just then, Jesus arrives and is quickly approached by the boy’s father, asking for the healing of his son. Jesus asks the man if he believes. The man answers, “I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!” Jesus commanded the spirit to depart, and at once, the boy was healed!
After the crowd had left, the disciples asked Jesus why they couldn’t drive out the evil spirit. Jesus replied, “This kind can come out only by prayer.”
But wasn’t it prayer that the disciples uttered when they tried to heal the boy? Why didn’t it work? Did they not have enough faith? And why was their faith lacking? What prayer finally drove out the spirit away? It isn’t just the prayer of Jesus, but the prayer of the father’s child when he proclaimed that he believed.
But what’s the difference between his prayer and the prayer of the disciples? Shouldn’t the disciples know more of faith than the suffering father did?
The disciples may have had more experiece in their work, but when they came across a difficult case, they themselves started to doubt. And when their hearts were gripped by fear and worry, there was nothing within them that urged them to persevere in their work. They lost their faith, and then they lost their hope, and they had nothing more.
But the father of the child, though he admittedly lacked also in faith had something more. Something that urged him to persevere. Something that urged him to come to Jesus and to try once again. He couldn’t just give up. He couldn’t bear the sight of his very own son suffering that way. No, he will do everything he can so he can save the boy he loves so much.
And alas, through the hands of Jesus, his son had been saved. Through the hands of Jesus, his prayer had been answered. His was the only prayer that prevailed, the only one who was able to overcome his unbelief. And what prompted him? It was his unquestionable love for his son. It was love.
If I speak in tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophesy and can fathom all mysteries and knowledge, and if I have faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing… Love never fails. (1 Cor. 13:1-2,8)
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Hello,
I just wanted to share my story of faith. There was a time that I did not even believe in God. Well I guess I didn’t want to believe in God. I was an angry child and must have made my parents crazy and wondering where they went wrong. I’m not quite sure what made me feel that way but I felt uncomfortable in my own skin. I was confused about life and confused at why we were even here. I felt hopeless. A number of bad things happened with me back then and I am not going to get into it but things got to the point where I had degraded so far that I had been contemplating suicide. As a last resort I went to my mother and confessed to her everything that was going on in my life and she shocked me by asking me if she could pray for me. Though I didn’t believe in God I felt like I would take any kind of help I could get. After my mother’s prayer for my life I felt slightly different….That same night I decided I would have my own little conversation with God where I expressed my anger towards the church and the idea of Him. After about 10 minutes of this I broke down and started to beg Him for forgiveness. Somewhere along the line during that conversation something happened…..God came to me and all of a sudden I knew He was real. A huge weight, that I had been living with so long that I didn’t even realize that it was there, was lifted off of my chest. I was breathing in a way that I never had before. I felt stronger. I felt all of the pain that I had held inside just disappear. From that day forward I have been living for God and feel more free and happier than I had ever felt in my life.
You see this story is not about my faith but the faith of my mother. Just as the boys father had faith that Jesus could heal his son….my mother had faith that Jesus could heal me. It was her prayer that had planted the seed of faith within my heart. Once that seed had been planted God could finally work to heal me.
It is not about quantity of faith. It is the faith of mustard seed size (about the size of pin head in modern terms)that moves mountains.
Hi Joy .. love is all - my uncle’s favourite line .. for both my mother 88 and for him at 87 .. it’s a line I’ve taken to heart. My mother is a great believer .. and this is what is seeing her through now.
Thanks for all the wonderful words about faith -
Hilary Melton-Butcher
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I just found an old book on my shelf, “If you want to walk on water get out of the boat.” Title says it all!
hi joyce!
i just want to share my favorite verse in the bible..
“for i know the plans that i have for, plan to prosper you and not to harm you, plan to give you a future and hope..” (jer. 29:11)
since God spoke these words into my heart, my life was never the same again. It felt like he took charge of my life from that moment on, and the funny thing is, he was trying to tell me that HE doesnt need my help, and what i only needed is FAITH..
so, i guess with that i need not look for other ways to succeed because HE said so and i have FAITH in the words of my creator.
Excellent article. There is so much that can be said about faith. There are changes that take place within us when we truly BELIEVE, things that enable things to happen, or at least help pave the way.
Great stuff Joy!
Thank you, Keith! I’m so glad to hear that
I know you believe in many nice things, having read from your blog.
Love is all. If we can remember just one phrase, wouldn’t it be wonderful to remember that?
Thanks for sharing you mother’s and uncle’s favorite line.
Hi Joyce,
Thank you for being a vessel of God’s love to us.I know it takes a lot to be in a state of mind like you are, full of the spirit of God,I myself have being a missionary my hole life, and yet I deeply agree with all you’ve said,how in the end It’s just,a simple,but deep relationship we should have with him, based on Love and only love. But,because, you want to love him back. Please, keep it up!
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