As we look in the scriptures we see this truth that says; “By faith we understand” (Hebrews 11:3), understand what, we may ask?
Is understanding a core competency to our living a faith-filled life?
Since we are taught in the scriptures to walk by faith, live by faith, and now understand by faith. How are we to set out on our faith mission?
We are also taught in Proverbs 3:5, to lean not on our own understanding, so how does that fit into our mission?
I believe we must get past the mental to even understand what faith is, and how to use it.
The entirety of Proverbs 3:5 is; “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, lean not to your own understanding.”
So we must lean on our trust in the Lord, lean on the revelation of the Word understood, not on our mental understanding.
This leaning into the Lord would allow our faith to be in His understanding, an understanding of the Word for every situation in life, and it would give us an internal picture or focus, instead of a mental or head understanding.
As the Word of God takes root in our heart, we are to have faith in that, by faith in our heart we understand the Word of God.
When we have faith to understand the Word, we now have faith to respond to the Word, a subsequent action to a received understanding.
By faith we understand the Word of God, by faith we understand the love of God, by faith we understand the love that God is! Amen!
We need to hear God’s Word, see God’s Word, and keep God’s Word in our hearts, because God’s Words are “life to those that find them and health to one’s whole body” Proverbs 4:22.
Understanding by faith also allows us to be more and more fruitful, because whoever hears the Word and understands it will produce a harvest, a harvest supplied by the Word sown! Amen!
A seam splitting, barn busting, spirit quaking harvest of the bountiful Word of God, unlimited in scope and reach.
Understanding faith gives you the full capacity to stay lush and green, stay full of fresh air, stay deeply rooted in the Word, and be carefree and productive.
Have you seen the High Striker game at a carnival? Where you swing a big hammer striking the base causing the puck to fly up the rail, hopefully striking the bell? This is how the Word of God increases our understanding strength, we keep “practice swinging” by reading and listening to the Word of God daily, and then when our time comes we can swing a mighty hammer, knocking strongholds off of ourselves and our family members.
We win the prize that God is calling us up to in Christ Jesus.
2 Corinthians 4:13 says, “It is written; I believed; therefore I have spoken. Since we have that same Spirit of faith, we also believe and therefore speak”.
The prize is won by having the same Spirit of faith that says, I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, I am with the Spirit because with Him is my freedom, I am alive to Christ and dead to sin. I am above and not beneath! Amen!
By faith, we understand from our hearts that all of God’s promises are true. By faith, we understand that things seen don’t necessarily reflect the things that are not seen. So we fix our understanding on things above the natural senses, we set out to understand more about what we don’t see.
Faith is the evidence of things not seen, so we understand before we see, I will say that again, “we understand before we see”. We need to jot this phrase down because it came into understanding by faith. By searching through God’s Word and writing about His wonderful character, deeper understanding comes up from within.
You see God’s Word is deeper than the superficial ink and paper we see in the Bible, the more faith we apply to get understanding, the more comprehensive God’s Word becomes. By more comprehending of the faith, we get more comprehending of God’s grace.
To truly find God’s grace we must truly understand God’s Word and not only His Word, but His character, His workings, His ways, and His will.
I pray that a fresh filling of knowledge, understanding, and wisdom would fall on all of us. Let’s get under the Word today, so it has a place to land.
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Scriptures of content and encouragement: Hebrews 11:3, Proverbs 3:5, Ephesians 3:16-17, James 2:14-26, 1 John 4:16, Matthew 13:23, 2 Corinthians 4:18, and Hebrews 11:1-3: Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for. By faith, we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. Amen!