Today I want to talk about faith. Did you know you have faith? "Well, wait a minute," I can hear you say, "I'm not even a Christian. I don't believe in that faith stuff." My friend I beg to differ with you. You do have faith. What you have faith in is a totally different question. While I was working out at the gym today, my trainer showed me a video of the guy who recently jumped out of that balloon from the edge of space. Did you know he had faith? In what? Gravity. He believed that he would return to earth when he jumped out of that capsule. If he hadn't believed it, he would never have jumped out.
See we operate in faith all the time. When you get out of bed, you have faith that you will be able to stay on the floor (gravity again). You have faith that you are breathing air. You have faith that the round ball in the sky providing light is the sun. We have faith in all kinds of things. Yes some of us have faith in God and that's a very good thing. According to the bible, the opposite of faith is fear.
Fear is faith that something bad is going to happen. If you have fear that you are going to die in a car accident, you are really saying that you have faith that this will come to pass in your life. That's not a good thing. Now I know some people will say that they had faith in God for this to happen or that and it didn't. Why didn't your faith work? I can't say for sure. There are a lot of reasons that you may not have received what you wanted. But let's look at the other side, there are many times when we fear something will happen and it doesn't.
I am amazed sometimes at how much fear and faith we see everyday. Some fear is stronger than others but some faith is stronger than others as well. I want you to know that fear and faith are not equal even though they are opposites. Faith in God will always beat fear. So let me ask you what you are afraid of today? In the last couple of weeks I have been afraid of a certain thing. But here's what I learned, when I started trusting God and putting my faith in him, that fear had to shrink away. So let me ask you this? Where is your faith?
Is it in something bad or something good? The answer is something you have to decide but know this - you will operate in faith in many things today. You only get to chose what you have faith in.
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See we operate in faith all the time. When you get out of bed, you have faith that you will be able to stay on the floor (gravity again). You have faith that you are breathing air. You have faith that the round ball in the sky providing light is the sun. We have faith in all kinds of things. Yes some of us have faith in God and that's a very good thing. According to the bible, the opposite of faith is fear.
Fear is faith that something bad is going to happen. If you have fear that you are going to die in a car accident, you are really saying that you have faith that this will come to pass in your life. That's not a good thing. Now I know some people will say that they had faith in God for this to happen or that and it didn't. Why didn't your faith work? I can't say for sure. There are a lot of reasons that you may not have received what you wanted. But let's look at the other side, there are many times when we fear something will happen and it doesn't.
I am amazed sometimes at how much fear and faith we see everyday. Some fear is stronger than others but some faith is stronger than others as well. I want you to know that fear and faith are not equal even though they are opposites. Faith in God will always beat fear. So let me ask you what you are afraid of today? In the last couple of weeks I have been afraid of a certain thing. But here's what I learned, when I started trusting God and putting my faith in him, that fear had to shrink away. So let me ask you this? Where is your faith?
Is it in something bad or something good? The answer is something you have to decide but know this - you will operate in faith in many things today. You only get to chose what you have faith in.
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