Living With Fear & Walking by Faith Sample

DAY THREE:  

WALKING BY FAITH 

Yesterday’s devotion gave insight into the topic of fear. It informed us that most people talk about faith and fear as if they were equal opposites. They are not. They are two very different things.  

Fear is an emotion, part of our biological nature. Faith, on the other hand, is not an emotion. It exists in spite of emotions. In fact, faith is often painted on the canvas of fear, and we respond to catchphrases like: “Feel the fear and do it anyway.” 2 Faith gives you the tool you need to overcome fear. Fear can be in the car, but not behind the wheel.  

Through the spirit, we understand that faith is the parental world — through faith everything is birthed into time. Faith opens another dimension that can only be accessed through it. You are healed in your spirit before you are healed in your body. You are whole inside before you are made whole on the outside. Everything tangible is made from the place of faith.  

Some of you are experiencing things in the spirit that have not manifested externally. You must continue to see them through the lens of faith. They start in the spirit before they manifest in your life. Faith is a powerful thing. It is not an emotional thing; it is a spiritual thing! Faith is not something therapy can work out of you or in you. People cannot be made to have faith. You can expose people to faith, but you cannot make them accept faith.  

When you give, it must be by faith. Whatever you do unto God, you must do it by faith. Faith opens a birth canal that people cannot fathom possible. If faith is the treasury of the spirit world, how valuable and how important is it that you have that faith? How then do you get more of that faith? It has to come by the Word of God. It is impossible to please God without having faith in God. To approach God, you must have faith in the One who is a Rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.