Do you have faith?
You say, “I don’t have faith”…
but how is faith measured?
In your opinion you don’t have faith, because YOU DON’T FEEL you have faith. However, faith and feelings are two completely distinct domains. Faith does not come from your impressions or your emotions or your feelings or your sensations.
Faith is not measured by your feelings
In fact, the amount of faith is weighed neither by feelings nor impressions. Therefore, your feelings are a poor barometer of reality; it is the same with faith: everything is distorted if you use your impressions your emotions or your sensory perceptions to test your relationship with God. Belief is irrespective of what you feel. Faith is a matter of willpower. It is a voluntary act: You DECIDE TO ACCEPT AS TRUE what your senses cannot perceive. Faith perceives as real what our senses fail to grasp. (Heb. 11:1).
It’s a matter of deliberate choice
You are free to choose! Therefore, stop letting your feelings rule the roost and stop hiding behind them as an excuse for your unbelief. Jesus invites you to choose Him, that’s faith. According to the Bible, you can be saved by faith, justified by faith, protected and kept by faith; the Bible also says that you can walk by faith and not by sight, it also says that you can inherit God’s promises by faith and pray in faith, overcome the world by faith and praise God by faith!
THE EXPERIENCE OF SALVATION WILL BECOME A DONE DEAL WHEN YOU ACCEPT IT BY FAITH, BY DEMONSTRATING WILLPOWER. IT IS YOUR DECISION. You are FREE TO CHOOSE.
WHEN YOU SAY, “YES, I BELIEVE”, YOU HAVE FAITH, whether or not you feel the presence of God.
Do not mistake your emotional experiences for proof of your salvation either, because otherwise you risk being tormented by doubt forever.
Encouragement… inducement
We urge you to chose to believe and have faith! Jesus did His part. That’s the Gospel. It’s up to you to do yours by saying to Him: “Yes! I believe in you”.
That’s all…
Is that too simple?
God is on your side! Have a nice day!