The Search for Substance!

Faith has God’s creative power and life attached to its very core and the more that we engage with it the more powerful those manifestations in the natural will become.

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As Christians, many of us have read or heard taught, verses out of Hebrews 11 many times. There have been books about it, teachings about it, as well as sermons on it, but how many of us actually understand it?

“NOW FAITH is the SUBSTANCE OF THINGS HOPED FOR, the evidence of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1

What many don’t realize is what “FAITH” really is in the Kingdom of God. It isn’t just some ethereal thing that only takes shape over time and it isn’t something that only manifests the more you seek the Lord, but Faith causes things to become Substance from the Spirit realm and then causes them to manifest in the natural realm. 

Faith is the mechanism that God used to create all of creation with, and it is still creating and recreating through the lives of each of His Sons and Daughters today.

“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.” Hebrews 11:3

Many have asked me why they’re not seeing things manifest from the Lord in their personal walks, while there can be multiple reasons for this, one of those reasons is simply because they haven’t made the transition from Hope to Faith.

Hope is “Expectation” which has no real Substance from God, but hope builds upon the Foundation of Trust in the lives of every believer. Hope doesn’t really produce any Substance in the Natural or Supernatural realms, but it does cause us to take steps in that direction.

One of the reasons that so many have had their Hope “Deferred” is because they never proceed past that place. Expectation is great, but we must move from there and into a Position of Action by faith that actually produces something for us down the road.

The missing link in this situation is actual “ACTION”! PUTTING FEET UPON YOUR EXPECTATION CAUSES MANIFESTATION because, at that point, you’ve moved from a place of Hope and began to engage with what the Holy Spirit has spoken to you.

If Abraham had never left Ur of the Chaldees (Genesis 12:1-4), he never would have been able to obtain anything from God. It was his actions that energized his hope, transforming it into the Substance of Faith.

Many of us are still operating in Hope, thinking that it’s faith which we are operating in, but if the Truth were really known, many of us have never left the Position of Hope, and the longer we hang out there the greater the chances of that Hope becoming Hope Deferred. 

Faith has God’s creative Power and Life attached to its very core and the more that we engage with it the more powerful those manifestations in the natural will become.

“But someone will say [to you then], You [say you] have faith, and I have [good] works. Now you show me your [alleged] faith apart from any [good] works [if you can], and I BY [GOOD] WORKS [OF OBEDIENCE] WILL SHOW YOU MY FAITH.” James 2:18

Faith and Obedience to the voice of the Holy Spirit, causes Substance to manifest! We must engage with God’s Rhema Word from the Holy Spirit if we really want to see Substance manifest in the natural realm!

Stop engaging with Hope and Expect God to move! It’s time to Engage by Faith, in cadence with the Voice of the Holy Spirit by Obedience, if we really want to see actual Substance happen!

No more Hope Deferred in Jesus Mighty Name! Only the Fulfillment of God’s Promises and His Power by the Faith of the Son of God!

        

 

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Daniel Pontious is a Kingdom Winds Contributor and passionate about teaching and revealing the Heart of the Father and Drawing people Closer to Him. It is his desire to see every member of the Body of Christ Functioning in their Personal Identity In Him!