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Saturday, January 1, 2011

Extraordinary Faith


The greatest examples of Extraordinary Faith can be found in the Word Of God.
In the Holy Bible, Hebrews 11Th Chapter, we look at what extraordinary faith produced.

All throughout the Word of God, we are introduced to men and women of Great Faith.
Hebrews begins with telling us what faith is, and the results of faith in action.
We learn that through faith, God honors those who are willing to come to Him by extraordinary hope. The (substance of things hoped for and the evidence of these things not seen).

We look at Abraham, who believed God's Word when He told him to leave his kin and go into a unknown country. He didn't know where exactly he was going, but what he did know was that God told him to do it. Abraham obeyed God and was BLESSED. God Blessed Abraham and his descendants.

We look at Issac, Jacob, Joseph, all the prophets, the men and women of faith and others who are of the Hallmark of Faith. We look at the extreme conditions they faced and went through believing God would help them.

When we look at the extraordinary suffering of mankind today, whether it's sickness, disease, devastation through adverse weather conditions, wars, and or persecutions, we can't help but to look back at the suffering so many people were experiencing when Jesus went about healing people of all their diseases. His ultimate act of Love was His Sacrificial Offering of Himself on the Cross so that we could be free from the curse of sin and death.

This is why it is so important for us to know and realize what we have in Christ Jesus. We are no longer under bondage. We must have unwavering faith, believing that God will do abundantly above all that we can ask or even think.

God is FAITHFUL! Because He is Faithful, we CAN have extraordinary faith in Jesus.
I particularly look at the woman with the issue of blood who touched the helm of His garment. She believed that if she could just get close enough to Jesus and make CONTACT, she would be healed. Even though there were so many all around Jesus, that she could not make her case known to Him. She pressed her way forward enough to reach out and touch the helm of his clothes. Immediately Jesus KNEW that virtue went out of Him. The woman was immediately healed of her condition, that the doctors could not heal her from. Even though the doctors had GIVEN UP on her sickness,and couldn't do anything else for her. She had tried with many others, spending all her money trying to get healed, until she came to the TRUE HEALER.
She didn't have to give Jesus any money,or spend a lot of time with Him, making her case.
This woman came to Jesus with EXTRAORDINARY Faith, Believing that if she just touched His Garment she would be healed.
This is so profound for us today, because at our time of need, "If we could just touch Jesus through our prayer by FAITH, believing that He will give us the petition that we ask Him for. Whatever our condition maybe, if we come with extraordinary faith, meaning faith that does not waver, that we WILL have our petition answered.
EXTRAORDINARY FAITH, to me is Steadfast Unwavering Faith, that does not give up or fade out even during tremendous circumstances that we find that are all around us.

Heb 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Heb 11:2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.
Heb 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
Heb 11:4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
Heb 11:5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
Heb 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

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