687 What Is Faith? - Hebrews 11:1

What is faith? Hi, I'm Mike Henry Sr. with Follower of One, I want to talk about faith for a few days. And so I turned to Hebrews chapter 11 today's passages verse one, Hebrews 11:1. "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for the conviction of things not seen." That's from the English Standard Version. This is a very familiar passage. And I looked at it in a number of translations. Sometimes it's called assurance. Sometimes it's called reality. Sometimes it's called realization. In one translation in the original king James, or at least in an old version of the King James. It says that faith is a substance of things hope for. The evidence of things not seen.

Why is faith even necessary? First of all, faith is like this proof. It's the final say in what we can't see, God continues to hide from us to mask things and to make us trust him. The challenge is, is that we have to express this trust based on faith. That's what I'm doing. My word this year is trust. I want to have the faith that helps me relax, knowing that God is in control and that he's in charge of things. This faith needs to make a difference in our lives. We need to operate as if we see it, this conviction of things not seen. It means that we're confident. We have this confidence that comes from knowing that God is in charge.

Eventually we will see God, or we will see his glory. We will be blown away by him so much that every knee will bow. It says in Philippians and every tongue will confess. In the song. It Is Well With My Soul by Horatio Spafford. The author talks about a day when his faith shall be sight.

When we can see what's going on, faith isn't necessary anymore. But God has created the entire world and our entire relationship with him and all of eternity to ride on this faith. And so I wanted to talk about it for a few days. We're going to talk through different pieces of Hebrews chapter 11 and consider how faith shows up in our daily life.

Faith, I hope helps me be a better employee. It helps me take extra time for people. It helps me be a blessing to others. It helps me go beyond my job description. I'm not living in this scarce mindset where I believe that I can only give so much for what I'm paid. Faith tells me that I can trust God and I can go beyond what's expected of me.

And God will make it right. Romans 8:28 says that God causes "all things to work together for good to those who love him and who are called according to his purpose." Our faith helps us walk in what we know about God. We lean on that and we trust that because he is who he says he is. Our faith becomes this proof of what we believe. And our lives prove what we believe when we live according to faith, I believe that's the model God has for each of us. And that I believe is our challenge for today. Shall we live by faith? When we live by faith, Jesus becomes visible. He's the key to the faith that we have. He's the key to everything.

And when we live, according to that faith, other people see him, they see something different and they might even ask the question, why are you doing this? And that's our opportunity to tell other people about him. That's our goal is marketplace ministers. Today, I want to thank you for being a marketplace minister.

Thank you for considering how faith might make your day different today. That's our job is to live different lives so that others might ask. You can join a community of people who are passionate about doing that by heading to https://community.followerofone.org and creating a free profile there. You might even join us on the next marketplace mission trip.

Thanks again for listening and thanks for being a marketplace minister.

What is faith? Hi, I'm Mike Henry Sr. with Follower of One, I want to talk about faith for a few days. And so I turned to Hebrews chapter 11 today's passages verse one, Hebrews 11:1. "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for the conviction of things not seen." That's from the English Standard Version. This is a very familiar passage. And I looked at it in a number of translations. Sometimes it's called assurance. Sometimes it's called reality. Sometimes it's called realization. In one translation in the original king James, or at least in an old version of the King James. It says that faith is a substance of things hope for. The evidence of things not seen.

Why is faith even necessary? First of all, faith is like this proof. It's the final say in what we can't see, God continues to hide from us to mask things and to make us trust him. The challenge is, is that we have to express this trust based on faith. That's what I'm doing. My word this year is trust. I want to have the faith that helps me relax, knowing that God is in control and that he's in charge of things. This faith needs to make a difference in our lives. We need to operate as if we see it, this conviction of things not seen. It means that we're confident. We have this confidence that comes from knowing that God is in charge.

Eventually we will see God, or we will see his glory. We will be blown away by him so much that every knee will bow. It says in Philippians and every tongue will confess. In the song. It Is Well With My Soul by Horatio Spafford. The author talks about a day when his faith shall be sight.

When we can see what's going on, faith isn't necessary anymore. But God has created the entire world and our entire relationship with him and all of eternity to ride on this faith. And so I wanted to talk about it for a few days. We're going to talk through different pieces of Hebrews chapter 11 and consider how faith shows up in our daily life.

Faith, I hope helps me be a better employee. It helps me take extra time for people. It helps me be a blessing to others. It helps me go beyond my job description. I'm not living in this scarce mindset where I believe that I can only give so much for what I'm paid. Faith tells me that I can trust God and I can go beyond what's expected of me.

And God will make it right. Romans 8:28 says that God causes "all things to work together for good to those who love him and who are called according to his purpose." Our faith helps us walk in what we know about God. We lean on that and we trust that because he is who he says he is. Our faith becomes this proof of what we believe. And our lives prove what we believe when we live according to faith, I believe that's the model God has for each of us. And that I believe is our challenge for today. Shall we live by faith? When we live by faith, Jesus becomes visible. He's the key to the faith that we have. He's the key to everything.

And when we live, according to that faith, other people see him, they see something different and they might even ask the question, why are you doing this? And that's our opportunity to tell other people about him. That's our goal is marketplace ministers. Today, I want to thank you for being a marketplace minister.

Thank you for considering how faith might make your day different today. That's our job is to live different lives so that others might ask. You can join a community of people who are passionate about doing that by heading to https://community.followerofone.org and creating a free profile there. You might even join us on the next marketplace mission trip.

Thanks again for listening and thanks for being a marketplace minister.