What does it take to live by faith.

What does it take to walk by faith. One big question for today is.
How do we know that faith is the key that unlocks the door.
For this very reason Jesus stands at the door and knocks,  it up to us to turn that key and unlock that door.
The faith in God, living out your faith in the Lord Almighty. Hebrew 11 lists many that had faith in God.
How were they able to live out their faith in him. Today it’s all about living out your faith in God.
Many started to walk with God, but they fell. Others walk in the pathway, they don’t fall or backslide from their faith. What causes people to really live for Christ.
Some truths I found in my life are these. It is not written in stone but it is what has happened in my lifetime.

1. True repentance
2. Life hurts
3. Commitment
4. A desire to do it motivation
5. We see faith as a lifestyle towards God. Not just a one day meeting.

These 5 things are something I feel that faith in is based on. If one is not there it is possible that person might backslide. When we move forward to see what true repentance is.
What is true repentance. Turning from your former life and into your new life in Christ. A will to do as Christ did. Proclaim the gospel, help the needed, minister to people that seek godly advice. Our heart beats for the things of God. Nothing else matters than to see a person coming to know Christ. True repentance is your entire being is now free and ready to be used by God. Abraham had faith he trusted God to lead him into another land. He trusted God by telling someone we will return. Meaning Issac and himself will return and God will provide Faith comes by action in having a true repentance from the old ways to the new light in Christ.
Our faith is also developed by things that take place in our lives. People go through a lot, they see things that other people haven’t. Yet they can still depend and lean on God just because. Yes many have been hurt in many ways. Out of that hurt people come to realize things about God they have never seen before. Like his love, mercy, grace. Most of all they see what Jesus really went through for the world. Not just on the cross, but before, during and after the cross. He died for the world, that was his love. Out of our pain and hurt we can really see what Jesus did for us. Life hurts only to make things easier for us to walk by faith in God. We know where we came from and by reading the word we know what our future life will be. As we hold on and continue to walk by faith.
The third part is our commitment to serve Christ by faith. We see many people who have a commitment to serve God. People were committed to following Christ. Do we have that much commitment in our faith to trust God and Jesus to help us each day. So many people have faith in other things, do we put that much commitment in our faith to follow Christ. People spend hours upon hours to clean their house, but are faithful to follow God’s instructions. As we walk by faith or faith walking people what guides us to do this is the commitment he made to us. Therefore our commitment stirs us to have complete faith in him. Since that is true we go each day as faith walking people. Living our life by faith in God. By this other can see a change in us by God. Our faith speaks louder than words. We are committed out of love and respect to serve and honor God. We do this by the faith we had. Knowing God did it all and we have the victory in him is enough for me to be a faith walking person

On our next posting it’s about our faith walking people. Our drive and motivation to do such thing. Being faith walking people is a lifestyle and 24/7 way of life.

Written in 2019 part of a message on faith