Many people believe that they have faith but their lives that they live proves differently. That is a strong statement to make. But if you look at everyone mentioned in the faith chapter, Hebrews 11, this is so. Their lives lived proved what they believe.
Faith is not a confession, it’s a lifestyle. You just don’t say that you have faith and it’s there? You first have to turn away from sins. Not what the church says or what people tell you but what Father / Jesus calls sins. Jesus became sin for us as it is written 2 Corinthians 5:21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. What’s interesting in that those who are the Righteousness of God are those who live by faith. Romans1:17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written: “But the righteous one will live by faith. If you pray for someone and nothing happens, people tend to blame the person that they prayed for as they have no faith. There are examples of this in the Bible that people came to Jesus and it was by their faith that they were healed. But this is NOT always the case. Look at the man by the pool at Bethesda in John 5. He was there for 38 years in that condition. He didn’t even know who Jesus was and still he got healed. Stop looking at the speck in others eyes but first take the plank out of your own eye.
If you say that you have faith, pray for someone and nothing happens, do really have faith? Jesus said Matthew 17:20 So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. The disciples that walked with Jesus couldn’t cast out the demon as they thought they had faith but didn’t. Matthew 17:19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?”
Your faith will be tested to see if you will live by faith. James 1:2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. Are you building and accumulating wealth that you may need bigger barns? Have you set up a nice retirement plan so you can live comfortably? So I have to ask you this question, who are you serving? Too whom you are serving is what you put your faith in.
Jesus is the door that we are to go through. Hebrews 12:1 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, (testing of your faith – James 1:3) 2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Are you living by faith?