Hosanna Restoration Church

“Have faith in God.” Now that sounds like some pat religious answer to things. But it was coined by the Author and Finisher of our faith Jesus Christ Himself. So often we say to one another, “Just trust God.” And the response is so often, “I know, I know.” Well, it is great advice and we certainly should know. But all to often as we are saying, “I know,” we are really thinking, “you don’t know how big my problem is!” And it is true that no one can know how things are for us. No one except Jesus that is! He knows it all. And if we would listen, we would hear Him speaking the same thing to us. “Have faith in God.”

Jesus response in every situation was the same. He trusted God. When a storm came up, when demons manifested, when friends died, when widows cried, when they brought the sick, when there were thousands to feed, when His friends betrayed Him, and when they crucified Him, His response was always the same. He focused on God. God was His source. He placed His faith in God.

Because He knew that God would never fail Him, and because He had experienced the fruit of His faith, He could say without any reservations. “Have faith in God.”

So then, how should we handle life? Well, in order to have life, we have to have faith in God. Not just emergency faith. I had what I would call emergency faith for most of my life. When I was in trouble or could not see any way that things could work out, I would throw up a help me God and attach a promise to it if He would help. Of course I never kept the promise, and so I never really saw the good fruit that faith could produce in every area of my life.

We have to have the kind of faith that is an all the time faith. A faith that comes from knowing that without God we can do nothing. We have to understand that it is from Him that all good things come. We can also be confident that we have not even begun to experience all that God has for those who love Him.

Faith in God produces good things in our lives. Faith gives us peace and chases doubt and fear back to the pit where it came from. After Jesus told them to have faith in God, He told them they could ask God and He would move a mountain for them. He said, “all that is required is that you really believe and do not doubt in your heart.” “Listen to me,” He said, “you can pray for anything, and if you believe, you will have it.”

Boy there are people that would have gotten mad at Jesus for saying such a thing! Well, I guess we have to make up our own minds about whether we will have faith in God or not. He gives us that choice. As for me and my house, well, I like what Jesus said. I pray you do to.