Have Faith in God!

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Hebrews 11:1
Today I was on a conference call listening to a gentleman by the name of Myron Golden{Trash man to Cash mam} and this is how he explained this portion of scripture.
"Now faith is where I stand on what I expect, while I prove what I cannot see."
Real faith you can only get in the now. Faith is what I stand upon and it keeps us grounded.
 We can’t see the wind, or touch the wind, or taste the wind, we can only hear it, and feel it. Yet no one doubts that the wind exists. In many ways faith is like the wind; we can’t see faith or touch faith, or taste faith, we can only hear it, and sometime we feel it, and although no one doubts the wind, many doubt the faith.... although children generally believe.

Faith is a powerful thing. Faith is also a gift of God. God gives us a faith that can change our lives. God gives us a faith that makes us a new creation. God works faith through His Word. And as certainly as God has called us to follow Jesus our Savior, so God has called us to grow in faith. Sometimes children are examples of how we should be growing in faith [instead of growing out of faith]. Yet there are other examples of faith, the Bible is filled with their stories. Enoch, who by faith walked with God. Abraham, who by faith followed God to a new land. Sarah, who trusted the promise, and received the power to conceive. Faith is often tied to hope of new life. So by faith Moses led the people of Israel, looking forward to a new life in the promised land. The list goes on and on.

And the point of it all is to encourage you, so you might know that the grace of God is sufficient. The point is to encourage you, so that you do not loose hope, but instead, to remember the promises of God, the love of God, and the salvation that is ours in Jesus Christ.