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Faith Has A Focus

Philip Robson by Philip Robson
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Faith is not a mystical, ethereal thing. When you face a challenge people often say, “Just have faith”, but to me that is an incomplete sentence. Faith needs to have a focus; faith needs to have an object. True faith is centred on the character of God and the Word of God. One should rather say, “Have faith in God” or “Have faith in the promises of God.” This is indeed what Jesus said when his disciples marvelled at the fig tree He had cursed:

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Have faith in God,” Jesus answered. —Mark 11:22

There is a key verse in the Bible which we could say defines faith:
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. —Hebrews 11:1 NKJV

The Greek word translated “substance” here is “hupostasis.” “Hupo” means under, and “stasis”, to stand. So, faith is literally “that which stands under”. It is a substance, something solid, like the foundation of a building which stands under and supports the superstructure. If we have faith, we will stand like a house built on a rock and not be shaken.
Faith is also “the evidence of things not seen” – faith relates to the invisible realm. We exercise faith when the answer to our prayers is not yet seen. When it does materialise or become seen, faith has done its work and is no longer really needed. As believers, “We live by faith, not by sight…” (2 Corinthians 5:7). We should not merely operate by our five natural senses but should see through the eye of faith and sense things in the spiritual realm even before they manifest in the physical realm.
Hope is also mentioned; it seems to precede faith. I like to refer to hope as the raw material and to faith as the catalyst which goes to work on that raw material, hope, in order to turn what we believe for into a reality.
We need to have a hope, a dream or a vision otherwise there is no feedstock for our faith. Then our faith needs to go to work on that hope in order to materialise it. Faith will turn your hopes into realities; the invisible into the visible; the ethereal into the material.

This is an excerpt from the book “Going Against Goliath” (How to fight cancer and win) by Philip Robson.
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Philip Robson

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  Philip Robson has been happily married to his wife Desirée for the past 41 years.  They have three mature children and three grandchildren and pioneered Living Waters Christian Church in Sabie, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. Pastor Phil, as he is affectionately known, was called from a scientific background into the ministry and has pastored Living Waters for the past thirty-four years.  During this period, he also became the Provincial Leader of the Christian Network (TCN) overseeing some thirty churches in the region. Recently retired from pastoral ministry, he is now pursuing a career as a Christian writer.  He holds a National Diploma in Microbiology and a BSc Degree in Microbiology and Genetics as well as a Bachelor’s Degree in Bible and Theology.  He also obtained an Honours Degree in Missiology which has aided him in his cross-cultural ministry. As a three times cancer survivor he feels called to encourage and coach others fighting the disease.    Normal 0 false false false EN-ZA X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0cm; mso-para-margin-right:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:2.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}

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