Poll: What is having FAITH in GOD?

Question

I sure wish more people had the kind of faith I have! GOD supplies my every need! I thank him and praise him for that! I ask GOD that others be able to have more faith and trust him for everthing!

Answer 1

Just because you cannot see Him doesn't mean he isn't there. He is all around us.

Deuteronomy 11
Love and Obey the LORD
1 Love the LORD your God and keep his requirements, his decrees, his laws and his commands always. 2 Remember today that your children were not the ones who saw and experienced the discipline of the LORD your God: his majesty, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm; 3 the signs he performed and the things he did in the heart of Egypt, both to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his whole country; 4 what he did to the Egyptian army, to its horses and chariots, how he overwhelmed them with the waters of the Red Sea [a] as they were pursuing you, and how the LORD brought lasting ruin on them. 5 It was not your children who saw what he did for you in the desert until you arrived at this place, 6 and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened its mouth right in the middle of all Israel and swallowed them up with their households, their tents and every living thing that belonged to them. 7 But it was your own eyes that saw all these great things the LORD has done.
8 Observe therefore all the commands I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to go in and take over the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, 9 and so that you may live long in the land that the LORD swore to your forefathers to give to them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey. 10 The land you are entering to take over is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you planted your seed and irrigated it by foot as in a vegetable garden. 11 But the land you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks rain from heaven. 12 It is a land the LORD your God cares for; the eyes of the LORD your God are continually on it from the beginning of the year to its end.

13 So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you today—to love the LORD your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul- 14 then I will send rain on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine and oil. 15 I will provide grass in the fields for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied.

16 Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them. 17 Then the LORD's anger will burn against you, and he will shut the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce, and you will soon perish from the good land the LORD is giving you. 18 Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 19 Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 20 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates, 21 so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land that the LORD swore to give your forefathers, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.

22 If you carefully observe all these commands I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways and to hold fast to him- 23 then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations larger and stronger than you. 24 Every place where you set your foot will be yours: Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the western sea. [b] 25 No man will be able to stand against you. The LORD your God, as he promised you, will put the terror and fear of you on the whole land, wherever you go.

26 See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse- 27 the blessing if you obey the commands of the LORD your God that I am giving you today; 28 the curse if you disobey the commands of the LORD your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known. 29 When the LORD your God has brought you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim on Mount Gerizim the blessings, and on Mount Ebal the curses. 30 As you know, these mountains are across the Jordan, west of the road, [c] toward the setting sun, near the great trees of Moreh, in the territory of those Canaanites living in the Arabah in the vicinity of Gilgal. 31 You are about to cross the Jordan to enter and take possession of the land the LORD your God is giving you. When you have taken it over and are living there, 32 be sure that you obey all the decrees and laws I am setting before you today.

Answer 2

Faith in God is believe without seeing it. My testimony on what faith is in my life: 17 year old and yet I been through more than most teens can even imagine. I live on my own. I've lost my entire family. I've accomplished more than the average person would by my age. After a year of struggling I finally am back on my feet. God is my life and if it were not for him I wouldn't even get out of bed in the morning. I have a strong faith, because He was the only one that seemed to care when I was in the middle of a storm. He sent people who ran to me with open arms. They are some of the best friends I'll ever have. True friend the type that would lay there life on the line for you.Other than that I know have a chance for a future. That's what having Faith in God has done for me.

Answer 3

And then what? Is that the best answer? Might you sell it yourselves and invest what ever captial remains until you can afford to own again? Do you have the income to keep the house in the long run? Have you tried to refinance? Rent out a room? No bank wants to repo a house. They are in the loan business, not the real estate business. They will work with you in almost anyway they can so you can keep your house. If you have the income to keep up payments, they may be willing to refinance that payment back into the mortgage, lengthing the loan by a few months, but bringing you current. Will the universe just cut you a check? I don't know. Will the universe provide a solution, yes. Be open to what form it might take. P.S. to everyone out there. I don't know if this is what happened in this case, but Adjustable rate mortgages and interest only loans are only for people who know beyond a shadow of a doubt that they will only be in their homes for 5 years or less. Other than that get a fixed rate. The standards are actually very lax, so if a person doesn't qualify, they are better off renting and trying later again.

Answer 4

It's like having faith in gravity.
You trust gravity is going to be there every moment of your life even though you can't see it.
You have the testimony of those from the past who tell us that it has always been.
You have the testimony of those around you who tell you they experience it the same.
You have your own personal experience with it.
If you grew up in space without experiencing gravity for yourself then you might doubt what you've been told because it's nothing you've seen impacting your life. This however would not mean that gravity did not exist.
If others around you told you that some mornings they had to tether themselves to the ground because gravity wasn't working for them that day then you would also have reason to doubt. Or if those in the past recorded that it was ever changing through time you would also have doubt.
So, true faith in God is based on the historical fact of God's faithfulness, on the testimony of others, and on personal experience.

Answer 5

To me having Faith in God is having every reason to go on in this world knowing that one day... I will worship my Lord in His own presence. Knowing that my dads leukemia without treatment has gone away twice. impossible says the doctor TRUTH says My God. Faith is knowing when I go to bed at night He is watching over me and when I wake to the morning He did that to. Knowing without one moments doubt NO MATTER WHAT COMES MY WAY His Grace is sufficiant for me. Knowing that He walks with me on the hilltops and through the dark valleys and that all My needs will be met. I too wish everyone could know Faith as a child in the Father and the Son Jesus. AWESOME!!!!!!!!

Answer 6

Having faith in God have different meaning depending on the religion concerned. In Christianity it means to Trust God and count on his Love.

Answer 7

AMEN AMY !!!! now thats what im talking about ?!!! i see people all the time in church, thay come routinely but THEY DONT HAVE FAITH - faith without works is ???? DEAD. and they expect God to do things for them. Having faith in God is seeing him move on your behalf when ALL the odds are stacked agaisnt you. Faith in God is not having a Job, but having money to get your hair done EVERY TWO WEEKS, Its having the money to put gas in your car evry month, its God making a way to pay tuition for 80 dollar books and 150 dollar classes. Faith in God is going on fasting and seeing a CHANGE in whatever area you are fasting on. Faith is seeing your enemies become your footstools, faith is making what ever your hands touch be blessed, faith is the grain of a mustard seed - faith is saying to the mountain be thou removed and cast into the depths of the sea. Girl i dont think you know what you started ! i feel like preaching here. NOW faith is the substance of things HOPED for the evidence of things NOT seen. ~ your sister in Christ, sis Ruth ♥

Answer 8

To believe in something that you cannot see, touch, or hear. Faith in itself is the belief in something we may never witness but want to believe is there because we would have nothing else.

What would be the point of doing anything if you have no belief or faith in something? People believe in God because that is what they were taught and to not have faith instills fear.

Fear because if we made the mistake that he does exist and didn't believe before our death and then found out He does, then we are marked in sin.

Answer 9

Faith in God is total reliance on Him. I have been raised with good examples of that around me, but it was not until 1969 that I started moving in that kind of faith for myself. And it has been a blessed adventure ever since.

Answer 10

in my opinion, it's believing totally in the Creator to furnish needs and wants.

the proper definition is:

Faith as a gift of God
Paul writes in Ephesians 2 "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works lest anyone should boast." From this, some Protestants believe that faith itself is given as a gift of God (e.g. [1]), although this interpretation is disputed by others (e.g. [2]).


The warrant of faith is the truthfulness of God
The basis for faith is divine testimony, not the reasonableness of what God says, but the simple fact that he says it. Faith rests immediately on "Thus saith the Lord". But in order to understand this faith the veracity, sincerity, and truth of God must be owned and appreciated, together with his unchangeableness.



Faith can refer to a religion, or to belief in God. It has two general implications which can be implied either exclusively or mutually:

To trust:
Believing a certain variable will act or has the potential to act a specific way despite the potential influence and probability of known or unknown change.
To have faith in ones spouse that he/she will keep a promise of commitment
To have faith that the world will someday be peaceful
To have faith in a person to pay you back
To believe without reason:
Believing impulsively, or believing based upon social traditions or personal hopes
In either case, Faith is based upon the interpretation of the intangible (feelings, emotions, etc.) instead of the physically tangible and is primarily associated with religion in modern times.

Answer 11

You know the serenity prayer... "God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other." I think only people who truly have FAITH in God can manage to do this as we need God's hand to help us.