Love can be defined as the strong feeling or constant affection for a person, while Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen(Hebrew 11:1). The greatest commandment that the prophets and law hang on is the love principle which is towards God first and then to fellow humans(Matthew 22:36-40).
Christianity has three major pillars which are hope, faith, and love and the Scripture makes it clear that LOVE is the greatest (1 Corinthians 13:13). I personally visualize it this way, in Faith, hope is found and in love we have faith. Hope can't work without a pinch of faith, while faith can't work without love. They are interwoven, but important as an individual.
Love is a broad topic that so many preachers and writers have talked about and had given different definitions to the word. 1 John 4:16 told that God is LOVE, so as dynamic as God is so in love and can be defined based on the dealings and personal experience with the HOLY SPIRIT, but how does faith work with love?
For personal experiences of dealings and enlightenment to the depth of the kingdom of God, it involves absolute trust in ways of the Holy Spirit. Christianity is about absolute faith in Christ Jesus. We have a Father who calls those things that aren't as though they were in existence(Romans 4:17) and He has given us the spirit of sonship(Romans 8:15).
God wants us to be like Him and have the same life as Himself. So when we believe and confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of our soul, we are declared children of the most high God. But to be like Him we have to act like Him. In the natural world of flesh, there are things that are absolutely impossible, but He has made every believer gods to also see and call the inexistence into existence(Psalms 82:1-8).
The problem is that we always hope that in the sweet by and by things will work the way we want them to, but we will be only surprised that without Faith we can please God(Hebrews 11:6). We might say that we have faith, but we are to move from faith to faith like Abraham(Romans 4). The kind of faith level we are to attain is the faith that sees beyond the natural.
The reason why we are different from the world is that we have the ability to perceive things that seems not to be real. Others see trouble, we have peace, in sadness, we have joy, in crisis we have Christ. So different in the way we see, think, and feel! This is why at every point in time when we know the promises of God for our lives, the best thing is to stir ourselves up in the most holy faith.
We must attain that height where all things are possible with God(Matthew 19:26). It might make us look crazy, but we are MAD(Making A Difference). We serve, fear, and love the God of all possibilities. It's a crazy kind of faith. It's not normal to this physical world, but necessary. When we think we have known God to a certain level, He then brings us to another dimension, that is also the way He wants our faith to grow.
For this kind of faith, we must understand WHO LOVE IS AND WHAT HE STANDS FOR, by that we grow into the faith He wants us to. The God kind of love producing His kind of faith that pleases Him. Those that have the capacity to love in this form are those who are ready and willing to open the door of their heart to receive the only one can give us the access into experiencing love and attaining height, in the person of Christ Jesus the sacrificed only begotten Son of God(1 John 3:16). Are we ready to undergo the processes God is taking us through? Hold on to the one who first loved us and He will impact the love working faith in you through the Holy Spirit in Christ Jesus (Galatians 5:6). SHALOM!!!
Christianity has three major pillars which are hope, faith, and love and the Scripture makes it clear that LOVE is the greatest (1 Corinthians 13:13). I personally visualize it this way, in Faith, hope is found and in love we have faith. Hope can't work without a pinch of faith, while faith can't work without love. They are interwoven, but important as an individual.
Love is a broad topic that so many preachers and writers have talked about and had given different definitions to the word. 1 John 4:16 told that God is LOVE, so as dynamic as God is so in love and can be defined based on the dealings and personal experience with the HOLY SPIRIT, but how does faith work with love?
For personal experiences of dealings and enlightenment to the depth of the kingdom of God, it involves absolute trust in ways of the Holy Spirit. Christianity is about absolute faith in Christ Jesus. We have a Father who calls those things that aren't as though they were in existence(Romans 4:17) and He has given us the spirit of sonship(Romans 8:15).
God wants us to be like Him and have the same life as Himself. So when we believe and confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of our soul, we are declared children of the most high God. But to be like Him we have to act like Him. In the natural world of flesh, there are things that are absolutely impossible, but He has made every believer gods to also see and call the inexistence into existence(Psalms 82:1-8).
The problem is that we always hope that in the sweet by and by things will work the way we want them to, but we will be only surprised that without Faith we can please God(Hebrews 11:6). We might say that we have faith, but we are to move from faith to faith like Abraham(Romans 4). The kind of faith level we are to attain is the faith that sees beyond the natural.
The reason why we are different from the world is that we have the ability to perceive things that seems not to be real. Others see trouble, we have peace, in sadness, we have joy, in crisis we have Christ. So different in the way we see, think, and feel! This is why at every point in time when we know the promises of God for our lives, the best thing is to stir ourselves up in the most holy faith.
We must attain that height where all things are possible with God(Matthew 19:26). It might make us look crazy, but we are MAD(Making A Difference). We serve, fear, and love the God of all possibilities. It's a crazy kind of faith. It's not normal to this physical world, but necessary. When we think we have known God to a certain level, He then brings us to another dimension, that is also the way He wants our faith to grow.
For this kind of faith, we must understand WHO LOVE IS AND WHAT HE STANDS FOR, by that we grow into the faith He wants us to. The God kind of love producing His kind of faith that pleases Him. Those that have the capacity to love in this form are those who are ready and willing to open the door of their heart to receive the only one can give us the access into experiencing love and attaining height, in the person of Christ Jesus the sacrificed only begotten Son of God(1 John 3:16). Are we ready to undergo the processes God is taking us through? Hold on to the one who first loved us and He will impact the love working faith in you through the Holy Spirit in Christ Jesus (Galatians 5:6). SHALOM!!!
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