Part 13 Faith the key to a new reality Part 1 I know you have heard many sermons on faith, but do you walk in it?

Part 13 Faith the key to a new reality Part 1
I know you have heard many sermons on faith, but do you walk in it?
Our enemy Satan continues to devalue the currency of major truths by pushing these truths to the extreme, causing many to back away from them.
Let's take a fresh look at this subject
Faith is so integral to the Christian; it underpins our whole walk with the Lord. Faith is listed along with hope and love as being eternal, in other words it will always be an integral part of our lives here, and on into the vast ages to come.

Hebrews 11:1	Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Hebrews 11:3	hTrough faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear (or things which we can see).

This verse in this chapter on faith sets the course or direction for our understanding of faith. It gives us a foundation from which we can proceed
By faith, the universe was made out of things which are invisible
We need to look more closely at these verses of scripture, because they give us a fundamental understanding of the nature of faith.
Faith is a substance: The substance of things hoped for. What is this so called substance? The Greek word for substance is hupostsis and has this meaning.
5287. hupostasis, hoop-os'-tas-is; from a comp. of G5259 and G2476; a setting under (support), i.e. (fig.) concr. essence, substance,
Faith is the underlying substance, the foundation, the essence, the raw material for things hoped for. Faith is not an abstract belief in something or a mental agreement; it is a power, a substance. It is essential that we understand that faith is a substance.

Romans 4:17

(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

God works with these same principles of faith when he creates things, calling the things that are not as though they already existed. Now we know that every visible thing in this world is a made out of atoms. You, your car, the clouds, grass, birds, the whole of creation is made of things we cannot see, at least with the natural eye. So that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear (or things which we can see).
Because we are made in the image and likeness of God and God is a creator, we have by inheritance within us the power to create. Let's just recap on Volume 1 part 8.
Many years ago in the beginning of my ministry, the Lord opened my eyes to the spirit world. This lasted for weeks until I begged the Lord to shut it down. For weeks upon end my eyes were opened to the reality of the spirit by day and by night, I could not shut it off. Eventually the Lord much to my relief shut it down.
During this period I began to understand some of the realities and relationships between the actions of human beings and the affect they had in the spirit realm. We tend to talk about love and hate as abstract manifestations, just feelings, words, or desires etc. However this is not the case. Love is a power and has substance; hate is a power and has substance. All power is manifest as a vibration. This is more clearly seen in sound; sound is simply a vibration and has a wavelength which defines its various manifestations. When I use the word "power" It can be seen as a vibration. These vibrations or power can be beneficial or harmful to us. Angels have a much higher vibration than humans, and unless you are tuned into their vibration level they are invisible to us. We see this in Television pictures have a different wavelength an structure or vibration.

Romans 14:7

For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.

As we walk though life we leave a trail behind us of good and evil, positive and negative effects. These trails or influences remain and often multiply. This is one of the most fundamental realities of life. Not only do we leave behind a trail, but we create our own heaven or hell.

Proverbs 23:7

For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:

I saw that every thought word, desire, or emotion such as love, Joy, anger, self-pity, or fear is manifest through us as a power, which in turn is manifest in the spirit realm as a colour a sound, smell, and often can be tasted.
Self pity clothes you in a terrible dingy colour and smell which keeps you bound in that state, and it affects others around you. That power coming through you will affect your health and mental state.
A person's desires for good or evil is manifest as a power a vibration passing though them.
This light, colour, sound, smell, passing through you either defiles you or purifies you.
Jesus said it is that which comes out of you that defiles you.
Every negative, selfish, jealous, angry, unforgiving, or attitude of self pity, is manifest this way. These attitudes will prematurely age you, cause disease and generally cause decay on every level of your existence.
On the other hand, every loving, kind, longsuffering attitude will do the opposite and bless you with abundant life.
Faith is a power and when it is manifest, it flows out and creates. Faith speaks to the soup of primeval creation (the underlying substance hupastasis and forms it into visible substance). Who powers the atom? And what controls them? It was not hard for Jesus to turn water into wine, the molecular structure of the atoms which made up the water reconfigured themselves taking on the molecular structure of wine, even the wind and the waves obeyed His voice.

Colosssians 1:17

And He is before all things, and by him all things consist. (Or continue to exist) His life powers every atom.

The word hupostasis which is used for substance in Heb 11:1. Is the same word that is used in Hebrews 1:3 for Jesus

Hebrews 1:3

Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image (hupostasis) of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Jesus is the express IMAGE hupostasis of His Father God
Now faith forms, and is the exact image of things hoped for it is the evidence that it exists.
Faith is the evidence that the things which are yet unseen actually exists. If you have faith, the thing you have faith for, now exists in the unseen realm. Faith is the evidence Greek elegmos proof that it exists.
To bring it into existence in this world the spoken word is required. You have to speak it into existence in this life.
You have to confess with your mouth and believe with your heart

Mark 11:23	For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
Mark 11:24	Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

God bless you
James N Johnson © 2005