Let us look to the story about Abraham in Romans
chapter 4 we would see another very important element that most believers know
about, but they must get honest with themselves and find out are they doing
this. Look to the last part of this verse and you will find out that God, who
does all things by faith, speaks of the nonexistent things which He has
promised, as if they already existed. This is very important key to walking by
faith and not by sight.
When God gave this promise to Abraham notice at
the start of the verse what He actually said about him. God said to Abraham,
"I have made you the father of many nations." God did not say that he
would make him the father of many nations; God said He already had made him the
father of many nations, when in the natural Abraham did not have any children.
This is a very important element to walking by faith.
Faith does not speak of things as though they
will one day come to pass. Faith brings what one hopes for into the
"now". Whenever you find a promise from God in His Word to be able to
walk by faith and not by sight there has to be a transition in the way you
think and in what you see. If you look to the Word of God and find His will for
you but you still only see it as a promise to be fulfilled you won't walk by
faith. The minute a pain comes forth in your body, or circumstances staring you
in the face bring thoughts to your mind you are not going to make it, you will
likely begin to consider your circumstances over the Word of God.
Remember Abraham did not consider his body almost
dead and 99, and the fact that Sarah could not have a child. Abraham did not
take what God had said and still see it as a promise to be fulfilled one day,
because that is not what God said. YOU MUST GET THIS VERY IMPORTANT POINT.
Abraham heard God say, "I have made you the father of many nations."
As far as Abraham was concerned he already was the father of many nations, he
was not going to one day become the father of many nations. He simply took God
at His Word. Hebrew 11:1
Faith is the proof of what we hope for. Our hope
begins in what God has promised but faith must change that hope of God's
promise into a present realty before it is ever seen. This is how we walk by
faith and not by sight. As you do, then what God has said will come to pass in
your life for God cannot lie. You can take Him at His Word.
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