23/11/2020
FAITH AND PRAYER
Faith is a supernatural gift of God by which we believe without doubting whatever God has revealed.
Faith is very difficult to understand and more difficult to live out. We do not lack people in our churches, we do not lack women, men, boys, girls and youth in church societies. But we lack men, women, boys and girls of deep faith. Deep faith means faith that colours all our being, faith that colours all our words and actions, faith that motives all our thoughts, faith that shines forth in our very persons. Christ Like Faith.
In the first chapter of the book of John, he clearly tells us that Jesus who is the object of our faith is God from all eternity who also took our flesh and dwelt among us. Knowledge of God about faith is through Jesus Christ according to st John. Faith in God is identical with faith in Christ as he clearly states in the prologue to his gospel ( John 1:1-18). We still have many of them St peter, St Augustine and so on ( Acts 9:20-22, 13:4-12). Faith means confidence, Extreme confidence means that you are going to operate as if it's a sure thing before it's a sure thing. Notice that faith is not fact, once it's fact it's no longer faith. Faith is not hope, hope is more like a wish. Let me say it again FAITH IS CONFIDENCE! confidence is what? In whatsoever.
Prayer projects faith in God and God on the world. Only God can move mountains but faith and prayer move God. Constant earnest prayer keeps faith alive and makes certain the receiving of everyone of qualities which makes us in the image of God. A person maturing in faith would always pray in consistency and alignment with God's purpose. We always have to understand that God's purpose comes first and not our request.