By Faith

Many days ago I was reading a devotion and some of the scripture came from the book of Hebrew. As I continued to read on in the passage I started realizing it was one for me! One that I was needing to read and study more of!

You see I believe and love my savior and I seek to share His word with others. But yet, I also realize I am human, flesh born into sin. Though I know I am saved from those sins I still fail. I find myself at times, with a lack of faith and/or having faith in someone other than my Lord!

I will admit a great sadness this brings me, when I realize I have again caressly taken matters into my own hands or desired for another human-flesh to fix my troubles.

When all along God is calling for me to just have FAITH in Him and in His timing!

As I study, Hebrews chapter 11, I realize I have read this before but this time there is a difference......

Hebrews 11

1-Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Verse..

3- by faith we know God made all from nothing, of things that are not seen

4- by faith Abel offered a sacrifice from faith in God, unlike Cain 

5- by faith Enoch came before God with faith and was taken up

7- by faith Noah having not yet seen the things to come continued in faith of God

8- by faith Abraham obeyed not knowing where he was

9- by faith  Abraham dealt in a foreign land

11- by faith Sarah was conceived with child due to faith in the promise

*17- by faith Abraham offered up his own son knowing Gods promise to him 

*20- by faith Isaac blessed his sons for the faith of those things to come

*21- by faith Jacob blessed the sons of Joseph 

*22- by faith Joseph gave instructions concerning his bones

** all these 4 had faith in God for the things yet to come**

23- by faith Moses lived from the faith of his parents knowing God was in control

24- by faith Moses refused to be a Egyptian 

27- by faith Moses forsook Egypt not fearing the king, for he endured seeing Him who is invisible 

28- by faith Moses kept the Passover

29- by faith he lead God's people thru the  Red Sea

30- by faith the walls of Jericho fell after being circled seven times

31- by faith the harlot Rahab did not perish

32-40 many lived and died, lived righteous, some living, some being tortured, some with nothing; but all by faith in His promise and of that, that is yet to come!

The best way for me to end this blog is by more of the word of God!

May He speak to your hearts through this as He has mine!

Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Hebrews 12:1, 2 NKJV)

Please feel free to comment, out of Love! Please feel free to share and encourage others on how you may have grown in your faith over the past year or so! What scripture may have helped you or something your faced that God seen you through!

With love and God bless.