THE FAITH OF GOD KNOWS !

The Faith of God Knows !: That's what faith does, and faith is not blind. Faith always sees an fate always know. I'm talking about the God kind of faith. What some people call "blind faith" is a presumption-- an presumption is blind. What some people call "faith" is not faith at all. It is foolishness. They just assume that something will happen, "God will make a way somehow ", not because they have faith in God's Word, but because of what happened to some other person. Some have done things acting in what they thought was faith, because someone else did it. "Well, brother or sister so-- and-- so gave their car away and they got a new one. I'm going to give minds away." Yes, and you may walk for 14 months. Don't ever base your faith on what someone else did. ACT ON GOD'S WORD,NOT OTHERS ACTION !: You have to hear from God. You see, God may have told brother or sister so and so to do what they did. But did He tell you to do that ? When you check up on some of these things, you will find that's why so many have what they call "faith failures." It wasn't faith at all. They just did it because someone else did it, or because somebody else got blessed. You see, it makes a difference when you do things because of the Word of God. If God makes the Word come alive to you in a certain area, and impresses in your spirit that this is what you are to do, it will work for you. Your faith comes from God's Word to you. Faith always sees. Like radar, faith sees through the storms. It knows what the end results will be. Believing is seeing through faith. . . Now, faith is the substance or the title deed of things. . . Some get uptight when you start talking about things. They say, "Well, you're just teaching people to get things." But God has lots to say about things--- especially things that He has given us. "According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that had called us to glory and virtue." (2 Peter 1:3). DON'T LEAVE ANYTHING UNSAID: you wouldn't think that people would be this foolish, but one man said, "Well, the Bible said that God has given us all things, then I'm just taking what's mine. I'm not really stealing, I'm just taking what's mine. Paul said, "All things are yours." So if all things are mine, I'll just go get what I want; I don't have to pay for it." Now, you wonder about people like that. We wouldn't have to say these things, but we do: if you are going into the ministry, you will have two deal with some people who think that way. We sometime assume that people understand what we are saying. But don't ever assume anything. You must cover every avenue. Say it so many ways they can't miss it. Cover all areas, and repeat what you covered. Don't leave anything unsaid. Faith is the substance of things. It is the evidence of things not seen. You use your faith on something you don't see. Let me give you an simple illustration. Let's use a clear plastic or Plexiglas podium as an example. The person who built it didn't create it. It was made of soybeans, or petroleum, and other substance. Well, the podium exists. It is in the natural realm. We can see it. It's clear, so it's a little hard to see sometime, but it is in the natural realm. I don't have to use my faith to believe it's there. I can look away and still touch it. When I slap it, I can hear it. By the rim of the five senses are no it's there. There is no need for me to use my faith to believe it's there. Why would I want to use my faith, when I can see it ? It's in the natural realm. I know it's there, you know it's there. Everyone who sees it knows it's there. There is no need to use faith on it. GOD DOES NO--CREDIT BUSINESS: you use faith on things you can't see; things which are not manifest. But somebody may say, "I'm going to believe it when I see it." But God doesn't do any credit business. You have to believe it first. You have to pay cash "up front" to get things from God. You have to believe before you see it with the natural eye. That's what faith is about. Faith is the title deed. In other words, faith is of the same value as the thing hoped for. Faith is seeing in the Spirit what the Word promised, when it is not yet manifested in the natural. "Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them, and ye shall have them." (Mark 11:24) What "them" is Jesus talking about ? "Then" things you prayed. The things you prayed all the things you believe that you receive. If you prayed the Word of God, that will increase your faith. If you pray the words of the devil, or if you prayed the problem, it will decrease your faith and cause fear to come. If we are going to operate in the law of faith, we have to believe some things that we can't see in the natural realm. The best way to get the MHN you of the things hoped for, is with your own words. You must speak words of faith. Not words of doubt and unbelief. You must speak the word of promise. God has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness .(2 Peter 1:3). It's not a matter of God doing anything else about it. Often we say that we believe God is going to do this, referring to a promise. But that is really not the right way to state it, for God is not going to do it. God has already done it.