We here a lot of people use the word the Faith....but some of us might not know exactly what faith is.
In Hebrews Chapter 11, the Bible explains the meaning of faith and gives us lots of examples of people who had faith!
Lets take a look!
Hebrews 11:1, 3
Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
By Faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.
We have not ever actually seen God, BUT if we have FAITH, we KNOW that he's real and we know that he's there! We KNOW that God made the World and everything in it out of nothing, even though we weren't there to see Him do it! This is the meaning of Faith.
Now lets take a look at some examples from the Bible!
Hebrews 11:7, 11-12, 17-19, 23, 30-31
By faith, Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith
By faith, Abraham, even though he was past age-and Sarah herself was barren-was enabled to become a father because he considered him faithful who had mad ethe promise. And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, cam descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.
By faith, Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had received the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, even though God had said to him, "It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned." Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and figuratively speaking, he did receive Isaac back from death.
By faith Moses; parents hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king's edict.
By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the people had marched around them for seven days.
By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient.
These are just a few examples the Bible gives of people showing their faith in our God.
Just think, what if Noah didn't have faith and didn't believe God when He told Noah to build a humongous Ark and load up 2 of each animal into it!? That would be hard to do, with the rest of the city people making fun of you for building this big, huge boat! But Noah did what God told him to do and God saved him and his family!
And Abraham had SO much faith in God, that when God tested him by asking him to sacrifice his ONE and ONLY son, Abraham was going to do it! And just when Abraham was about ready to offer his son, God provided a little Lamb to sacrifice instead and saved Abraham's son!
We need to have faith in God in our own lives! So God can show us how amazing He is! And show us that He is always there for us to save us, protect us, and most of all love us!
Put your faith in God!
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