The Journey of Faith

Faith will help you hold on when everyone else is letting go. Faith will cause you to believe when everyone else doubts. Faith will cause you to go to church when everyone else is staying home. Faith will cause you to pay your tithes when your money is low. Faith will cause you to worship and praise when the body is tired and hurting. Faith will pray in the middle of a storm.

Faith activates the word of God.

When we take our faith, which is the activator, with the word of God, which is like a seed, it will cause it to germinate, grow up and bear fruit. FAITH lets me enter into a special place of fellowship with the Giver of Faith. I can find a place of intimate communion and consummation when I will find that most holy place of union with God.

It is not found in a formula or a prayer book. It comes when we begin to struggle against the tide of troubles in our lives, which push most people further way. Faith causes you to struggle up stream, to leap up waterfalls, to overcome impossible odds to find that place of life, eternal life.

Some may say the Salmon return to die, but really, they live and live and live, because at that place of beginning, their seed continue in greater force and greater number to return and continue the process. When we return to the Giver of Life, we can see our lives duplicated and replicated in every person that God gives us an opportunity to influence.

God many times plants dreams and visions in one Generation to see them fulfilled in the following generations. Promises pursued by past generations are being realized today. The power of procreation, multiplication is only found at the origination point.

Until we allow faith to propel us to the Giver of Faith, we will never see our faith fulfilled. We must be willing to strive to that place where some may think we die, but it is really where promise is made permanent. Abraham had promise, but it was at that place where he was willing to let his promise die, when his promise was established for eternity.

Abraham and his faith struggled up that mountain with a bundle of wood and a flickering ember. It was at an Altar of sacrifice that completed Faith. Faith was in fact established through out all ages. It was this work, that allowed the DNA of Abraham’s faith to be marked upon my soul. He went up the hill ready to die. Because if Isaac died, Abraham in fact died. His faith would have died on that hill.

Abraham is called the Father of the Faithful for a reason. In this Old Testament shadow we see it fulfilled in clarity at Calvary. In this picture we find what we must be willing to do. As the Son of Man, Christ allowed himself to be put upon the Altar for the Promise. He as a Man knew that his Father’s promise was greater than the sentence of death. No doubt as a man he prayed, wept, cried, struggled in the weakness and likeness of sinful flesh. But as the Messiah, he knew he was something beyond a mere man.

Wrapped up in the folds of flesh was a fullness of unspeakable power. A glowing shimmering glory that was about to be released in an unprecedented way into the world that was created by the WORD. The Word in death was opening the door of duplication and multiplication that the very fountainhead of faith was going to be unleashed in a dimension not yet known to common man. The Light was about to birth lights. The river was about to birth rivers. The Son of God was about to unleash the "Sons of God."

in him, by him, through him,

Scott A. Phillips
www.inbythroughhim.blogspot.com

(originally written in april 2002 )