KEY SCRIPTURE: Mat 6:26 KJV “Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?”

A life filled with Worry, anxiety and fear can seriously make living very unbearable. Living like this can make you a shadow of yourselves. Such a person’s mind is constantly bombarded with clueless matters. God’s word is basically information about God’s mind, program or instructions for man’s liberty from whatever makes life miserable. It is called the perfect law of liberty. This is the reason any man looking for answers for hard, breakable nuts in this life must diligently search for the truth and counsel to learn how to free himself. The Lord Jesus said, Joh 16:33 KJV “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”

He overcame the problems and tribulations of this life by His walk of faith. He lived by the highest principles of faith. True faith does not live in the anticipation of the answer but rather lives in the reality of the answer, although physically the answer may not be readily available. The Lord said to Thomas when he expressed total disbelief in the rest of the apostles’ testimony of Jesus’ resurrection and his appearance among them. John 20:29
“Jesus said to him, Because you have seen Me, Thomas, do you now believe (trust, have faith)? Blessed and happy and to be envied are those who have never seen Me and yet have believed and adhered to and trusted and relied on Me.” The Lord was teaching him His way of life. He does not need to see the answer. He believes whatever the father has said
At the tomb of Lazarus, He prayed this way, Thank you, Father, that you always hear me. Before He prayed, He had fully acknowledged that He had been answered.

Everyone practising true faith rejoices in the answer, because faith takes hold of the answer before it materialises. Fear or worry is an expression of one who does not have the answer. They are rather searching for the answer. This places the answer in the future. The man, hoping to get some money to settle his already due house rent, acts in faith by thanking God for the money. He rather worships the Lord and blesses his name for providing the rent. Such a man would not be caught up in worries. The sick man stands on the scriptures by whose stripes you were healed. He likewise rejoices in his healing. God would surely honour their faith with answers

THOUGHT: FAITH LIVES IN THE ANSWER

FURTHER STUDIES

2Co 5:7 KJV “(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)”

Rom 4:17 KJV:”(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.”