FAITH

[Albert Finch]

What are 3 things that God cannot do?
Answer: He cannot lie, He cannot fail, and He cannot be pleased without faith (Hebrews 11:6).

The Bible definition of faith:
NOW, FAITH IS THE SUBSTANCE OF THINGS HOPED FOR, THE EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN. (Hebrews 11:1)

What is the first thing you need in order to have faith?
Answer: Hope

What is the definition of hope?
Answer: Hope is the confident expectancy that something good is going to happen.

When is faith?

Answer: Now Faith is now, hope is in the future.

What is stubstance?

Answer: Is this table substance? -- will it ever perish?
What about the Word of God -- Will it ever perish?
Substance is that which is not subject to decay.

Jesus said His words "are spirit and are life" (John 6:63), which is to say that the substance or meaning in Christ's words represents an actual reality -- the living Spirit of the Kingdom of God.

What are the 3 parts of faith?
Answer: Believing, Conceiving, and Receiving

First you have to believe God's word concerning the thing for which you are having faith.
Now you have to conceive it in your spirit.

What are the 3 aspects of conceiving.
Affirmation
Meditation
Visualization (seeing it come to pass)

After you have done this for a while -- what do you get?
You receive revelation in you spirit that you possess it now!
At this point it may or may not be manifested in the natural.

To keep you faith ALIVE until it is manifested you -- continue affirming, meditating, and visualizing the promises of God in His word until it manifests.