FAITH IS SUBSTANCE---HOPE IS THE GOALSETTER !

FAITH IS SUBSTANCE---HOPE IS THE GOALSETTER ! "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Paul says, "Now faith is. . ." Even though the word "Now" is not used as a present tense word, let's use it that way to provoke your thinking. Let's think of the words on both sides of the word faith as being present tense words: "Now faith is." Faith that is the substance of things hoped for is always Now faith. This is the God kind of faith, it is always Now Faith. The substance of things hoped for is always now. You can say it several different ways. If faith is not now, it's not faith or it's not the God kind of faith. If it's not faith that is present tense, it's not the substance of things hoped for. Hope is always out there in the future. Many deer people miss it here. They confuse hope and faith. They say, "Well, I believe God is going to do this sometimes our one day !." But God has done all He is ever going to do about your healing, your deliverance, your soundness, your preservation. He has done all He is ever going to do about your finances as well. He has done all He will ever do about the devil until the end time. The promise of God is already spoken. God's will is His Word. His Word is His will towards humanity. The New Testament is the last will and testament of Jesus. He has already said "Yes" to it. It's not a matter of what he That is going to do someday. It's a matter of us receiving what He has already done through Jesus Christ. God could have created the world anyway he Wanted it. He could have created this and said, "we are going to have a feel like it world. When you get up in the morning, however you feel, that's just the way it will be." In fact if that is the way you went to bed, that is the way you're going to get up. But he That didn't do it that way. Now, Let's rightly divide The Word: in (1 Corinthians 2:4 through 16). The amplified Bible. The apostle Paul says, "My language in my messages were not sent in persuasave (enticing and plausible) words of wisdom but they were in demonstration of the (Holy Spirit and power [a proof by the spirit and power of God, operating on me and stirring in the minds of my hearers the most holy emotions and thus persuading them]. So that your faith may not rest in the wisdom of men [human philosophy), but in the power of God. The Holy Spirit will only agree with the Word of God, and he will perform it. God's word is His Power. Verse 6 Yet When we are among the full-grown (spiritually mature Christians who are ripe in understanding] we do inpart a [higher] wisdom [the knowledge of the divine plan previously hidden]; but it is indeed not a wisdom of this present age or of this world nor of the leaders and rulers of this age, who are being brought to nothing and are doomed to pass away.