Those who dance are thought mad by those who cannot hear the music. Author unknown.
Hope is the blueprint of the thing you want. What it will look like. Hope can be accessed through your sense realm. Its anchor is in your sense realm and mental calculations. What it will look like, feel like, be like… Hope says, “I will”. Hope will always wait. It’s a someday thing. It will always be in the future.
Faith is a God substance. It’s like the spiritual atoms that make up the thing. Unseen substance. It is always voice activated. Voice activate your future. Think quantum physics. Let the weak say I am strong. Let the poor say I am rich. Faith says, “I am”. And, “I have it now”, independent of circumstances. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for. Therefore, the timeline for faith is now. Anything less than this is just fleshly hope. I have it now. Faith is the evidence of things not seen. It is the evidence and proof of that which you hope for. Faith will bring that which you hope for into this dimension and time through your words.
Hope works like this: The doctor told a lady that she had melanoma and he was going to order a new medication. She declared, “I am going to be healed by the new medication”. I said, “No! You are healed! Jesus bore melanoma so you don’t have to”. She said, “The medicine is good, I should be getting better soon”. She believed the report of the doctor. Healing was future tense. The doctor and the medicine would heal her. She was hoping to be healed. She did not take it by faith. She died. I am not judging. I am calling you to strengthen your spirit. These tests we enter are not in our daytimers or on our calendars. Stay ready.
The time to build up our faith is now. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith. Praise You, my Lord.
Faith works like this: A woman had a 39 year old son who had 2 strokes. She took him home after 2 days in the hospital. He would not stay there. Labs, tests, MRI’s, and later, bone marrow biopsies. She told him these doctors are trying to help, but God is greater. "No matter what the report is, we don’t worry about test results". They finally found a massive infection in his spleen which ruined his bone marrow and had led to the strokes.
They went to see his primary care doctor. His labs were now so bad that he required immediate hospitalization. He was dying. He had a spirit of death on him. Vital signs tanking. 102 or better fever. 35 respiration. 130-135 pulse. 86/50 blood pressure. Gray blue. He refused to go to the hospital, so she took him home and put him to bed. The doctor didn’t think he’d live a week. Said so. Told them point blank. This was her son.
There is always battle when you’re standing in faith. The devil has no new tricks. "It looks bad. The doctor said he won't make it. Just let him go to heaven. His breathing is starting and stopping. He’s blue and purple. You’re a nurse, you know he’s actively dying. He’s born again. Just let him go home. He’s at peace". Soothing, clucking noises from the devil who was trying to take her son.
Merciful God.
She went to the Lord. Should she call his brother to come say goodbye? No. You fight. Just you and him. Don’t call anyone. And so she did. She pulled a chair up next to his bed and went to battle. She decreed and declared, “He will live and not die. This is my son! God’s property! Satan, in the Name of Jesus, I bind you and command you to cease and desist your maneuvers against him. By His stripes he was healed 2000 years ago. He is healed now. Sickness, you are trespassing on God’s property and you must go now! You cannot take him! I plead the Blood of Jesus on him! He is in covenant with the Most High God. He will live and not die and declare the praises of God. I command you to go. He is the healed of the Lord, and I'm saying so! Father, I praise You and worship You for his healing”. This went on until it was done. You fight until it’s done.
He woke up the next morning and ate 5 eggs, a pan of cinnamon rolls and had her take him to Walmart to get some flavored water. He’s in their garage shop now working on a computer program.
Faith takes it now. Hope says, “Someday”. This is This Believer’s Walk.
Eugene Peterson, in his preamble to Job in his The Message Bible said, “Real faith cannot be reduced to spiritual bromides and merchandised in success stories. It is refined in the fires and storms of pain”.
Hebrews 11:1-3
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2 For by it the elders obtained a good testimony. By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.
But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
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.
Hebrews 11:32-35
And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the prophets: 33 who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 34 quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. 35 Women received their dead raised to life again.
I shall not die, but live, And declare the works of the Lord.