Faith

1 Corinthians 13:1

Love Is the Greatest

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1 Corinthians 13

The Greatest Gift

 ¹ Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

If we are going to live the way God wants us to live we are going to have to do it by faith

1 Corinthians 13:13

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¹³ And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13:13

New Living Translation (NLT)

 ¹³ Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.


God is a Faith God and if you are going to live the way he does you are going to have to operate the way he does

Hebrews 11:1

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Hebrews 11

By Faith We Understand

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

Hebrews 11:1

Great Examples of Faith

Amplified Bible (AMP)

Hebrews 11 

 ¹NOW FAITH is the assurance (the confirmation, ^[a]the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses].

 

Faith and Hope are two different things but works together having hope but you can have hope without faith.

  Am I in hope or am I in faith?

Hope has limitations faith is limitless.

Hope is a positive expectation of something in the future.  We have to have hope before we can get  faith.

Something good is going to happen.

God always builds your hope before he builds your faith.

 

Genesis 12:1-7

The Call of Abram

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Genesis 12

Promises to Abram

 ¹ Now the LORD had said to Abram:

      “Get out of your country,
      From your family
      And from your father’s house,
      To a land that I will show you. ² I will make you a great nation;
      I will bless you
      And make your name great;
      And you shall be a blessing.
 ³ I will bless those who bless you,
      And I will curse him who curses you;
      And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
⁴ So Abram departed as the LORD had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. ⁵ Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan. ⁶ Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, as far as the terebinth tree of Moreh.^[a] And the Canaanites were then in the land.
⁷ Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

Hebrews 11:1

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Hebrews 11

By Faith We Understand

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

Hope is a blueprint or a model.
Hope is what proves that blueprint.
God begin to build a blueprint for Abraham.

Genesis 13:14-17

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¹⁴ And the LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him: “Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are—northward, southward, eastward, and westward; ¹⁵ for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants^[a] forever. ¹⁶ And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered. ¹⁷ Arise, walk in the land through its length and its width, for I give it to you.”

Genesis 15:1-6

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Genesis 15

God’s Covenant with Abram

 ¹ After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”
² But Abram said, “Lord GOD, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?” ³ Then Abram said, “Look, You have given me no offspring; indeed one born in my house is my heir!”
⁴ And behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, “This one shall not be your heir, but one who will come from your own body shall be your heir.” ⁵ Then He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”
⁶ And he believed in the LORD, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.


God had to give Abraham a miracle for it to happen. They had to be brought to no hope.

Genesis 17:1-4

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Genesis 17

The Sign of the Covenant

 ¹ When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless. ² And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.” ³ Then Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying: ⁴ “As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations.

God changed Abram name to Abraham God also changed Sarai name to Sarah. This was a Faith confession.

Romans 4:16-17

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¹⁶ Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all ¹⁷ (as it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations”^[a]) in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did;



Hope is the blueprint faith is your contrition cure faith is a force
Let God build the blue print for you let faith work faith works in the invisible arena where God lives 
God calls those things which be not as tho they already were
Hope says-I am going to(I will) be healed,blessed, and get another job
There is a lot of people that think there is standing in faith for healing but they are standing in hope
Faith calls those things which be not as tho they already are
By his strips you were healed  your healing already exists
 

Romans 4:18-19

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¹⁸ who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, “So shall your descendants be.”^{[a] 19} And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.



What does being strong in faith do
If I am going to walk in faith I am going to have to put some blinders on(Faith) By his strips you were healed
Believe what God has said what has happen to me Jesus already died
Don't hope have faith you are healed

Mark 11:22-24

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²² So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God. ²³ For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. ²⁴ Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.



What does Gods faith look like? Jesus said when you pray believe that you have it and you already have it.

Hebrews 6:12

faith and patience (consistency)

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¹² that you do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Hebrews 10:35

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³⁵ Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward.

John 20:7

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⁷ and the handkerchief that had been around His head, not lying with the linen cloths, but folded together in a place by itself.


Jesus wants us to be in a life of faith not hope
living in actual  faith not hope that's what actually going to change our world


Preached by Pastor Brad
http://springhill.cc/