Definition of faith: noun 1.confidence or trust in a person or thing: faith in another's ability. 2.belief that is not based on proof: He had faith that the hypothesis would be substantiated by fact Faith is not…positive thinking, aimlessness, hope, a good attitude, a positive outlook on life, blah, blah, blah.
Who overcomes the world? How are we born of God? We must have faith to be saved.
We do not overcome by logic or in the physical, but in the supernatural. It is necessary to have an active faith to bring the presence of God to our families, city and nations.
Example of what an argument is (sin & curses). We overcome the arguments because Jesus’ blood cleanses us from not only the sin, but the iniquity.
Conceive faith by the Word: An angel came to the virgin Mary to tell her that she would conceive a child. She believed and did conceive by the Spirit.
We must have faith that we do not need to live in the past. We must have faith that we are a new creation. We must have faith that Jesus can make all things new. (Jesus at the Cross looked at His mother and said, “Behold, I make all things new.”) In Isaiah it says that “He was crushed for our iniquities”…later is says “It pleased the Father to crush Him”. Jesus was crushed so that we would not have to live under the crushing burden on inner hurt.
The Lord honored Abel’s faith above Cain’s because when Cain also presented an offering, it was not pleasing to God since with it came indifference and selfishness. Cain had not accepted God as his creator.
Faith is an agent that, unlike hope, operates in the present and is the main requirement that God demands of us in order to approach Him. It operates in all the areas of our lives, helping us to experience the supernatural.