Let Faith Arise!

LET FAITH ARISE!

Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.

Hebrews 11:1

FAITH = TRUST

Faith comes from the Latin fides, meaning “trust, confidence.”

Trust stems from traust, meaning “confidence, help, protection.”

If Faith is about Trust - then who are we trusting?

Here’s a fact, MOST People Have Faith. It's the question of FAITH in what? IF you look at global statistics:

60% of people believe and TRUST that their financial stability is the key to Success and Happiness. They have FAITH in their financial stature because it reduces stress, provides a SENSE of Control and POWER.

40% of people have faith in their NATIONAL IDENTITY and in their governments because it offers national pride, security in social order or protection and STABILITY.

Here’s the Key Truth Brothers and Sisters:

Faith Finds Its Worth In The Character Of The One It Trusts.

SURE, You can have sincere faith in Money and Materialism, In Governments or the power of your passport. BUT these are NOT faith in secure things BUT in unstable things — money loses its value, your government will fail you. You can have SINCERE FAITH in these good things BUT sincerity doesn’t guarantee SECURITY.

You can sincerely believe your savings will protect you—until inflation hits or markets crash.

You can sincerely rely on a government—until corruption, instability, or policy shifts expose its limits.

That’s why the PSALMIST said in Psalm 20:7 –

“Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.”

Similarly,

Proverbs 11:28 -

Those who trust in their riches will fall,

but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf.

In 1 Samuel 8, The Israelites were directly under the grace and power of GOD, meaning GOD was ruling them directly, perfect KING, perfect Government. Perfect system. BUT they were jealous of the other nations, they wanted to be like the other nations, they wanted a better system, a better government - a better way of LIVING! They wanted a different kind of SECURITY! AND so they told Samuel they wanted a different KING! a human King just like the other nations. And SAMUEL was devastated! He was upset! HE felt they were rejecting HIM as their judge and prophet and so HE goes to GOD and bears his heart before GOD. In Gods LOVE And MERCY, you know what God says to Samuel:

“It is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected Me as their king.” — 1 Samuel 8:7

They have lost faith in GOD! They have put their faith in money, materialism and wanted a new government!

God told Samuel, go, give them what they want. BUT WARN THEM:

Governments will form Armies and militaries and require men to serve in the military, there will be forced labor, you will lose your daughters, your properties will be confiscated, there will be TAXATION AND when you seek for JUSTICE, your cries will be unanswered. IF you put your TRUST and FAITH in government and systems other than GOD, this will happen.

AND guess what Church, ALL these warnings, from the time of Samuel to our modern day age - have come to pass!

Mandatory Military Service, Check, Forced Labor, even child labor, check, Loss of daughters, gender exploitation, CHECK, Land grabbing, corruption, CHECK, Heavy Taxes and Economic dependence, CHECK! People crying out for justice, CHECK!

WHEN we put faith in money, materialism and government IT will FAIL! BUT When we put our FAITH in the FAITHFUL GOD that we serve, we will LIVE in the peace, prosperity and protection that only HE CAN PROVIDE!

Jeremiah 17:5-8

This is what the LORD says:

“Cursed is the one who trusts in man,

who draws strength from mere flesh

and whose heart turns away from the LORD.

That person will be like a bush in the wastelands;

they will not see prosperity when it comes.

They will dwell in the parched places of the desert,

in a salt land where no one lives.

“But blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD,

whose confidence is in him.

They will be like a tree planted by the water

that sends out its roots by the stream.

It does not fear when heat comes;

its leaves are always green.

It has no worries in a year of drought

and never fails to bear fruit.”

The LORD is asking us all today, CHURCH, who are you trusting? Who is the object of your faith?

The Israelites had a faltering FAITH in GOD because they had a faltering relationship with HIM. They had a weak FAITH in GOD because their relationship with Him was weak.

AND this my dear brothers and sisters, is the SAD TRUTH with many Christians TODAY!