FAITH: What is it? How does it work?
- Chántelle Adanna
- Feb 9
- 4 min read
The topic of February Faith.
We always talk about favour (yes, I spelled it with a "u", go read your Bible) and being God's favorite, and how He doesn't play about you, and while IN CONTEXT this may be true, the truth is that most of us do not understand what faith truly is.
By the grace of God's revelatory spirit, I've been able to dissect why and where we go wrong, and a lot of it is because we don't know who Christ really is and who we are in Him.
SB: Go watch this powerful series by a Bahamian Pastor named Kevin LA Ewing, tonight. Yes, it's a bit of homework.
Okay, let's dig in:
Why are we fixating on Faith?
Well, mainly because it's the core of all that we do, say, think, and act upon. It is what anchors us and carries us through.
The problem with Faith?
It is often imitated and confused with the worldly view of just a mere belief system in anything and everything. However, especially if you know me, I'm digging a bit deeper because that doesn't even sound right on the surface.
To believe in anything is synonymous with standing for nothing, which means falling for anything.
So what is Faith?
Biblically, in Hebrews 11: 1, 6 & Romans 10:17 it directly indicates that not only is faith something that produces what we do not see, but that faith is correlated with the word on God and John 1:14 states that the word of God is Jesus Christ.
Common misconceptions & testimony:
Despite being in church growing up, singing popular hymns, and knowing of Jesus Christ, the Cross, and the Bible. I never understood it all and how it worked, let alone worked for my benefit as a believer in Jesus Christ.
Like I knew I was supposed to call on Him and that I could, and that He was gracious and merciful. However, I didn't really know about His wrath, judgments, statutes, and the overall principles of the Bible, let alone the spiritual essence of the Bible.
So, as you can see, right there, the door of confusion for faith is wide open because it was never ingrained in my head that faith is synonymous with the word of God and Jesus Christ.
It was not made clear that faith was anything deeper than a mere belief system.
Why?
Because I was taught that just believing in Jesus Christ sufficed. But you can still live life as you'd please or maybe not engage in certain sins like adultery, stealing, or murder. Yet, having unforgiveness, being bitter, gossiping, tattoos, joining secret societies and fornication (as long as you use protection) were "okay".
No one ever said stand in the counsel of God by way of His word! It was always "pray about it," but we were praying amidst most times. If we're honest we only believed in god to get us what we wanted or needed in any given situation, not in the power of the word itself.
You see?
This in turn set the platform for anything goes, which clearly rebels against the infallible word of God, which is also Jesus Christ, which is also faith.
I wasn't taught about covenants or curses. I would always hear about blessings but never about how to receive the flow of promises listed in the Bible, ever. It wasn't emphasized in church, home, or social settings to read to understand the Bible. I was taught directly and indirectly that the definition of faith was to believe that God will grant the desires of my heart, the things I wanted, and then it will manifest.
Nothing about aligning my desires with His will for my life that was already established before the foundation of the world.
Nothing about the heart being deceptively wicked, Jeremiah 17:9.
This is so wrong, not because I say so, but because the word of God says so.
If you have ever done something and then felt shame or guilt afterwards, 9/10 it was God's conviction because He is merciful even when we do not deserve it.
Take faith as the reason you are alive. So if it's that, then it can't be what society and even corrupt churches label it as, because most of us do not pray for being alive, but we'll pray selfishly and exclude the entire purpose of the spiritual act, which is to remind Him of His word.
I'll leave you with this: Isaiah 40:8.
The facts are we aren't here forever, but the word of God has outlived us all and will continue to do so.
What's that really to debate?
Prompt?
What do you want to learn more about His word as it pertains to your situation this year?
What relationship did God call you out of?
How are you using your pain to process the lesson?
Come write and share your piece this Saturday!!
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