"Faith is that quality or power by which the things desired become the things possesed."...??

Question

This quote by Kathryn Kuhlman baffles me. An action is required to obtain something. Faith is not an action, right? Faith is the belief that something is real or will happen...how can it make a desire become a possession?

Answer 1

That's a good question Crystal. I'm not familiar with her but her definition of faith is similar to the bible's if that's what you're referring to. Faith, throughout biblical scripture, actually does require action.

All of the people written about in scripture had to do something before it was attributed to them as having faith. For instance, Abram, whose name was later changed to Abraham, had to pack up his family and move to a place he had never seen or even known about just because God told him to. He did it, and it was accounted to him as faith.
Faith is substance and evidence.