Faith is what Life Isn't....

The bible teaches us that now faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen, but our society teaches us that if you don't see it, feel it or have it then it doesn't exist. And there is the conflict that we as believers face. Our spirit desires to have faith because without faith it's impossible to please God but my logical mind is telling me to snap into reality and live off of what I see instead of what He promised...

For the past few weeks I have been going through a financial crisis, I had to pay tuition, rent and utilities and didn't have the money to pay all of what I needed so my phone was disconnected, my gas was turned off and I had no food in the fridge. Initially I was full of faith knowing and believing that no matter what it looks like I was going to stand firm on the word of God. For He said He shall supply all of my needs according to His riches and Glory...

How many of you know that there comes a time when even the strongest of us get weak, as the days passed, and I got tired of the cold showers, no phone access and no food to eat I began to get depressed, I began to feel abandoned, I began to feel like God had let me down.

I know I am not perfect and I know that I am not deserving of His blessings but I thought God an I were in a good place so I began to sulk in my state of despair, I began to access old habits to help me feel good for the moment, but that didn't work, I was still feeling depressed and abandoned...

You know how sometimes life throws you some balls that you just can't dodge, your love one dies, your rent is past due, your husband cheat, your wife cheats, they walked out on you, your children are raising hell, u were laid off, the money didn't come through and you look towards heaven and hear no response to your situation

What do you do when God seemed to have turned a deaf ear to your petitions, What do you do when what you see and what you experience becomes way stronger than what He said and what you know He said?

What do you do when you are to beat up and beat out to get out the bed and face life once again, what do you do when you have exhausted all resources...

Well my friend all we can do is STAND!!! Stand on the word of God and stand by Faith. Faith activates the move of God. Faith controls your Favor. Faith gives you access to your blessings. Faith is what life isn't. Life is hard but Faith is easy, all you have to do is believe. Our problem comes because believing in God's ability to save us requires that we trust Him and because we have been let down by people so many times it is hard for us to Trust God and that wall that we have build to protect us from being hurt again is not only keeping people out but its keeping God out as well. We can't fully activate the kind of faith the move mountains until we activate the kind of trust that gives us confidence that God will move the mountains on our behalf...

You have to understand that the just shall live by faith and not by sight, I had to realize that even though my gas was off I still had water to cleanse myself, even though my phone was off I still had internet access to communicate to people, even though I had no money my tuition was paid and I was able to start my senior year at GSU, even though I had no food at home I was able to eat for free anytime at work, once we stop allowing our sight to control our belief and start allowing our belief to control our sight we will see how God was right there moving on our behave supplying all of our needs we just have to realize and stand firm on the fact that FAITH IS WHAT LIFE ISN'T!!!!!