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These few postings on faith are like a drop taken from the sea. What I have been able to share are quite basic and foundational but for one to get the full picture, there are yet many wefts that must go over and under the warps if we would have a feel of the fabric of faith. I would like at this point to highlight a few pitfalls one can get trapped in wanting to express faith. The belief that waiting on God to act means inactivity on our own part. The Bible says faith without works is dead. In Acts 3:1-10, we read the story of Peter and John healing a lame man at the Beautiful gate. After Peter had ordered the man to get and walk (making a demand of faith), the next verse recorded that Peter “took him by his right-hand and helped him up…” That is a work of faith. In our main bible text from Mark 11, when Jesus spoke to the fig tree and it dried up, one may be led to think there was no work of faith in that expression. This is not so. For every faith expression there must be a corr...

“whosoever shall say unto this mountain...and shall not doubt in his heart but shall believe…” The third issue of faith is the demands of faith which is expressed by the word “say” and backed with authority by the word “believe”  Faith makes demands and not confessions. Without backing our sayings with believing then it remains mere confessions and not faith. Faith has two components subjective component - believe objective component - sayings No one can act or behave outside what he or she believes.We may pretend for a while or even years but what we believe in carries the day. This is why believing is the bedrock of faith. When we get the matter of believing right, the sayings will always be right. Believing is a matter of the heart and “out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.” If your heart is filled with doubts,whatever you say (making a demand of faith) no matter how positive and good it may sound, it will be nothing but wind. “But when you pray,...