Now faith is....

What is truth? Can you handle the truth? Is your confession based on perception or the truth that can change perception? Does your perception point you to the truth or to some Neverland state? The Just shall live by his faith? What does this mean? What is faith? This was the end point of my barrage of thought missiles…. What is faith? …. Yeah yeah I can hear folks starting to quote Hebrews 11:1 …. Faith is …. Yada yada yada…. But what does it mean…. I ask? What IS faith? ….. I was asked in return … my answer was: Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen…..Yeah yeah…. Back at ya… Is substance perceptible? Yes I answered…. Is evidence tangible? Yes it is…. So my dear why do you think that you have faith, when you base it on what YOU believe will happen or some nebulous belief that things will be ‘OK’? that you will ‘make it’, ‘break through’ or whatever it’s called these days.
Now Faith is ….. Faith is …. It is in the now it is always in the now and has a physically perceptible presence that serves as the earnest of that which is promised…. Do you know that this principle holds true for everyone that I have ever given a promise? To Abraham it was the stars in the sky and the sand on the beach that pointed to how numerous his seed would be; To the children of Israel it was the pillar of cloud by day, the pillar of fire by night and the tablets of stone that showed them that God was in their midst and pointed to the promise, and the promised land they were heading towards; To Joseph it was his coat of many colors that marked him out as favored; To Jacob it was the poplar bark with holes that pointed to the promise of the speckled and dappled herd soon to be produced and so on and so forth He marched me through the old testament…. Now one stumped me…. Sarah Lord, what was Sarah’s substance and evidence…. The answer came to me a few days later out of the blue….. LAUGHTER ….. yeah laughter… which is what Sarah did - laughed when God told her she would soon have a child. I used to think that God was merely scolding her …. No I was establishing a set point so that every time she laughed or heard laughter her heart would catch !!! Oooooh God said I would have a child …. Who knew whether this was the laughter shared between Abraham and Sarah in remembrance of the word God spoke that led to the ‘awakening’ and the ‘magic moment’ that Isaac was conceived (Our God Is an awesome God!). Little wonder that when the son, the promise was born he was called Isaac which means laughter…. A testament to the fulfillment of promise….
For by faith the elders obtained a good report…. Yes they pleased you right…. Yep that they did but I also say that by faith, they received the good news (report) that I relayed to their perceptive senses …. The promise to come, and they followed after it faithfully and for those who endured, got to the Promised Land. Remember Caleb and Joshua…. They brought back a good report… Ohhhh ….. So what is faith? Faith is..... Tangibility pointing to the infallibility and immutability of the intangible..... Now what do I describe as being infallible and immutable? The Word of God I answered according to the book of Hebrews…. Now does my Word have substance? Yeeaaah I said…. Is my Word evident?

Let’s take a look…
Hebrews 6: 13-20
13For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
14Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
15And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
16For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
17Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
18That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
19Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
20Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

The Two immutable mentioned here: Himself and His Word… His Word confirming his promise….
In the old testament God made a promise He swore by Himself to confirm the word He gave and gave perceptible substance pointing to the promise: The Word was not yet manifest…
Hebrews 6:13, 14
13For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
14Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

But to us the heirs of salvation who have obtained the promise, that is the Word (Jesus Christ made flesh) He confirms it by that which makes it impossible for Him to lie: Himself and His Word…. That His counsel be established.

Hebrews 6:18-20

18That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
19Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
20Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

Yes that is what takes us within the veil. Faith…. no longer a human high priest, no longer the ark of the covenant, no longer fleeces, no longer clouds or pillars of fire which appointed for that dispensation of time: the shadow of things to come, but NOW faith is the perceptible, immutable, infallible promise of God – the Word, spoken by God of things hoped for and not yet seen… (The secret of faith…. His word He will not break)…that takes us from without beyond the veil, to the glory. No longer covered like it was when Moses beheld it, but now open for all to see and enter in to….

What do you base your perception on The Word of God, spoken by God or ……
NOW FAITH IS….
Shalom….

© OluperoMettabel, October 2010