FAITH COMETH

Faith Comes

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”

Hebrews 11:1KJV

Todays lesson is about faith. What is faith? And how do we get faith? Those are the 2 areas I’m being led to focus on for this lesson.

WHAT IS FAITH?

It says “Now Faith is the substance of things hoped for,..”

The first word says “Now”. Not tomorrow or next year, it says now. Faith works now. Faith has to be a present reality. It works in the present, Faith believes in the present reality. It didn’t just work only in the time of the apostles, or the time of Jesus, it says Now. Faith is not believing in the past or in the future, faith is the realm of believing in the present, that is right now you know that which you believe has been done. Faith is the substance of things hoped for. Faith starts from hope. Faith is the substance of your hope. Faith gives substance to what you have hope for. Substance according to the dictionary means “the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists and which has a tangible, solid presence”.Faith gives physical manifestation to constant hope in The Word of God. Faith starts from hope. If you have no hope you will have no faith. That’s where most people miss it with faith also. They think faith is just to say some words. Saying is part of it, but it is saying words that you have hope in. It starts from your desire. What do you really desire, and are your desires in line with God’s will(word)? Faith gives substance to what you have hope in. You need hope to supply your faith with something to work with. It now further says Faith is the “evidence of things not seen.”

Now someone would say, “see, you’re just saying things that are not true”. No, on the contrary we are not. Faith is the evidence of things that are not seen. It didn’t say that they don’t exist, it says the are not seen. Faith gives evidence to those things which you can’t see with your eyes, it gives substance to Hope (Romans 8:24). Evidence according to the dictionary refers to “the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid”. Evidence is a certificate used to prove truth in judgement. That is what faith is. Faith is the certificate used to prove that those things which are not seen do exist and it gives them substance. Faith is evidence. Faith gives tangibility to your hope. We all know there are things that exist that we can’t see with our naked eye. For example, radio or television waves. Those waves are all around us, but we can’t see them with our physical eye. To get proof of those waves present we use a device like a radio antenna or a television, and then we can tap into the present wave flowing in and around us that we can’t see with our eyes and we know obviously exists because of those devices that enable us tap into the waves. In a similar vain, Faith gives us the evidence of those things which we cannot see, touch or feel with our physical senses. So, you can see that faith is not fantasy believing. Hope in the Word of God is the device we can use to tap into the wave (Faith) that we can’t see with our eyes, that is flowing constantly & presently in and around us everyday, every hour and every second. Faith is present at all times. Jesus said “if you have faith as a mustard seed”. It is not the amount of faith that is your problem, the problem is your unbelief because the Law of Faith works all the time. You have too much unbelief in you that is hindering the faith in and around you from flowing. That power of faith is so strong. And the same way those radio waves work by a natural law, faith also operates with a spiritual law. Faith works by laws. If those conditions are not met your faith won’t flow. The amount of faith isn’t the problem, the problem is your unbelief or doubt. We know there are natural laws on earth that we all must live by, take for example the law of gravity, the law of aerodynamics, the law of electricity and so on. These laws are the natural order by which the earth operates, you have to follow them, or find a way to overcome them for you to reach your desired goal. Faith works as a law also in the spirit world. Faith is a law (Romans 3:27). Faith gives birth to miracles. The law of gravity works all the time, it doesn’t choose when or where to work and when or where not to work, it is constant (k) everywhere and every time. Spiritual laws operate in the same way too. The law of faith is constant. It is always at work, the only problem is that we don’t know how the law operates, and a better understanding of the operation of the law will give us victory. So, I think we can now define what faith is here. I can say Faith is the prove & evidence of things not seen that I have hope for. Faith is real. Faith works.

WHERE DO I GET FAITH?

“So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”

Romans 10:17KJV

Faith cometh by hearing. Faith comes through what you’re listening to, what you’re occupying your mind with. Faith comes when you hear. What type of thing should you hear? Should you listen to anything? No! It says Faith cometh by hearing the word of God. God’s Faith comes when you hear God’s word. God’s word has His faith inside of them. The word of God is power and life. The same way hearing God’s word brings faith, hearing the words of the devil brings fear. If you listen to the world more than you listen to the word of God, you’ll be more fearful than faith filled. The word of God is a creative life force. Let us take some verses that can help us understand how God’s kind of faith works.

“Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.”

Hebrews 11:3KJV

Through Faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God. God’s word framed this earth. It built everything in this world. And God’s word did that through Faith. God’s Word gave evidence to the things not seen. It gave substance to His hope. God is a God of Hope (Romans 15:13; 1 Peter 1:21). The word of God has the Faith, Hope & Love of God in it and it is undoubtedly the most powerful force in the world. The word of God is alive and active. The word of God has life in it. When deployed it goes about doing only one thing, and that is to create what God wills (Isaiah 55:11). Faith comes when you hear the Word of God. When you read the Bible & understand, you are planting the faith of God into your spirit(heart). The Word of God is like a seed that you can plant in your Heart (Spirit). Your heart serves as the ground and that ground produces the fruit of the Spirit which Faith is a part of. The word of God it says in the book of Hebrews is an “incorruptible seed”. The word of God produces fruit, it produces the fruit of the spirit (Galatians 5:22).

The word is life and light (John 1:4). The word of God has life in it. Throughout the whole first chapter of Genesis, it says over and over again repeatedly “God said”. God spoke everything into existence through his word (Jesus). The word has God’s faith in it. If you’re low on faith, it means you’re low on the word of God. If you don’t have faith in you, go and eat the word of God into your body and you’ll be built up. The word of God has the faith of God in it. God’s kind of Faith comes by hearing the Word of God. It does not come by hearing the news or your favorite artist, faith comes by hearing the word of God. Because the word of God is spirit & life, when listening it is like planting a living being in you. You are planting God’s very own words which have tremendous faith filled power in them. It will inevitably always bring forth fruit, the only problem is the ground in which it is going to enter. Is the land of your heart a conducive ground for growth? If you’re a believer you’ve been given a new heart (ground), but be careful what you plant on it.

“..,,so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.”

The things that are seen were not made of things which do appear. Things which are seen are made of things that are not seen. The things that are not seen are the determining factor for the things which are seen (2 Corinthians 4:18). It didn’t say things that don’t exist, it said “things which are seen were not made of things which do appear (that is referring to things that are not seen). So, it means that there are 2 sides to this world. The side where things are seen and the side where things are not seen. That is the physical realm (where the things that are seen exist) and the spiritual world (where the things that are unseen exist). The things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal. The power in faith filled words brings those things that are unseen into the seen world. Understanding the relationship between this 2 sides according to the word of God I believe will give us tremendous knowledge on faith and how it works. Faith isn’t calling out to things which do not exist, it is calling out to things which do exist but are not seen. When you’re believing for healing, it’s not you calling out to God for healing that does not exist in the hope that he’ll hear you and pity you and heal you. You’ll die praying and believing that way. Faith is where you move over to the unseen realm and call out (receive) to the healing that is already provided by the Grace of God through His Word. Faith is you calling out with constant hope in the Word of God to the provision of healing that He has made through grace that came through His son Jesus (The Word of life), and that healing exists within you in the unseen realm in the spirit that God has placed within us which has all of His promises and blessings of salvation & eternal life. All you have to do is believe it, and you’ll receive it. It seems so simple right? You need to believe the Word of God before you have the Substance of the Word. Some people want to receive before they believe. It does not work that way. You need to believe the Word first, then you’ll receive what you have already believed. The Word of God spells out everything for us so plainly, but the darkness in this world does not allow us to comprehend the light in the word (John 1:5). Jesus spelled out some of the most foundational principles of the law of Faith in the book of Mark. He had just spoken & cursed a fig tree the previous day and His disciples heard Him say those words, so the next day on there way out of town they came across the tree with His disciples and they saw that the words Jesus had spoken to the tree had taken effect and they were surprised. But then, see what Jesus tells them

“ And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

Mark 11:22-24

The are so many things that need to be said about Faith in relation to these verses, but let’s focus on the last part for now, we’ll get into them in the later chapters.

Now let’s look at this verse carefully. Jesus tells them plainly how to receive according to Faith. We know this is an instruction on the working of faith because the very first answer HE spoke to them was “Have Faith in God”. So it all begins from having Faith in God. And How do we have faith in God you might ask, it is simply by Hearing the word of God. Faith Cometh by hearing the word of God (Romans 10:17). His disciples were not paying attention to His words that much. They shouldn’t have been surprised. God’s word has His faith & Ability in them. It says in the book of romans that “He calls those things that be not as though they were” (Romans 4:17). That is how God’s kind of faith operates. It calls things that are not seen, as though they were. For example in the book of Genesis where God called Abraham a Father of many nations years before he even had a child. That is how God’s kind of faith operates. God’s kind of Faith moves over to the realm of completion already. It moves over to the part where you know that the results are certain. Jesus told them “What things soever ye desire…”. What so ever ye desire. Desire is a synonym for Hope. Your desire is your constant Hope. He said What so ever you desire(hope). Check on your desire. What are you putting your hope in? It should be the word of God (Jesus). Your desire/hope should be according to God’s will (His Word). Your Faith is the Substance of your Hope. Your faith & hope have to be in God. Jesus said “When ye pray (ask), believe that ye receive them..” He said we should believe that we receive when we pray. The moment you pray, believe that you have received what you prayed for. What should we believe that we have received? What we prayed for, what we have hope in, what we desire for. Those are the things we should believe that we have received. And then what happens when you believe that you have received? Jesus told us “…and ye shall have them.” Believe that you have received what you asked for & you shall have them. Move into the realm of having it already, because if your desire/hope is in line with God’s Word then it is definitely done already. You need to believe first in the Hope you have which should be God’s word, and then you will receive. Believe that you have received and you shall have what you asked for. You must believe first before you receive it.

I think this is an area so many of us believers have difficulty. We are so dependent on our physical senses that it obscures our view of what is true & not. The things we see, hear & feel through our physical senses aren’t always true. Your senses can deceive you because you’re not perfect, but there is one thing that stands true all the time irrespective of physical circumstances and that is the Word of God. God is always true & His Word is always true because He & His Word are one (John 1:1-2). God and the Word (Jesus) are 1. You cannot separate the both of them. So you need to set a precedence of the Word of God in your life over every other thing that does not align with His Word. Let God be true and every man a liar (Romans 3:4). The moment you can successfully get yourself to the point where you believe the word of God over every other thing in this life, that is the moment you start to attain victory in Faith.

Faith is essentially in very simple terms our believe in God’s word. Faith is that believe & trust that you have in God’s word. That is why Faith comes by hearing the word of God (Romans 10:17). When you hear the word and believe it, then you have faith in the word and your faith gotten from the word will give substance to the hope/desire you have in the word. Without Faith It is impossible to please God. Without you believing in God’s word, without you believing that He exists, you cannot please God. What that means simply is without you believing in God’s word, you cannot have His will come to pass in your life. How do you want to please (Do His will) Him if you don’t even believe that He exists?

“But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him..”

Hebrews 11:6 KJV

For you to have the will of God prevalent in your life you need to believe that He is. That is, you need to believe that He exists and then also believe that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. You seek Him diligently by abiding in His word. When you abide in the word He gives you the desires of your heart (John 15:7; Psalms 37:4).

If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

John 15:7 KJV

You need to abide in the word of God. To abide means to live there. You don’t just visit some days, you have to live in it. The Word should be your dwelling place. You need to continue in the word.

How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Romans 10:14-17

You must believe that He exists. That believe of His existence comes only as a result of us hearing & reading the word of God. Imagine they lock you away in a hole from the very first day you’re born and no one ever speaks to you about God or you don’t read the word or have a prior knowledge of God’s word, you cannot believe that He exists. Faith cometh by hearing the Word.

Made in the Image of God

God created us to be faith beings. In the book of Genesis God said

““….. Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”

Genesis 1:26KJV

There are 2 very important points in this verse that we need to take hold of for this lesson;

1. God made us in His image & likeness

2. He gave us dominion over all the earth.

Let’s start with the first point. We’re made in the image of God. It’s not that we don’t believe it, because we see it every time in the Bible, but the problem is that so many believers chose not to believe (Unbelief) because they don’t know what the image of God is so they doubt the word. That is why God gave us the Bible (His Word), so that we can know Him. The Word of God will give us knowledge of Him & then His own spirit will give us the revelation of what the Word says. In the book of John Jesus tells us 1 aspect of what God is like, what His image and likeness is.

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth

John 4:24 KJV

God is a Spirit. God does not have a physical body, He is a spirit. God became manifest in this world with a physical body in the person of Jesus, but God Himself is a spirit. Jesus is the part of God that we can see, touch & feel, but God’s true essence is Spirit. And They that worship Him have to worship Him in Spirit, as HE is and also in truth. That Truth is God’s Word (John 17:17). If God is a spirit and you were made in His image and likeness, that means you are a spirit also. The real you is the spirit man on the inside of you. You are made up of 3 parts. Spirit, Soul & Body (1 Thessalonians 5:23) . You are a Spirit, and through your spirit is how you can communicate with God. We as humans are always looking for a physical way of proving God’s existence or communicate with Him, but the truth is you have to relate to God in the Spirit. That which is born of flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is spirit (John 3:6). The 2 criteria’s for true relationship with God is your born again Spirit & the Word (truth).

When God created man, He placed a spirit inside of him, and that spirit is the living part of the person.

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Genesis 2:7 KJV

The word translated “breath” there in Hebrew is Ruach.

“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath (Ruach) of life; and man became a living soul.”

Genesis 2:7KJV

The Hebrew word there “Ruach” means breath or wind, it is most times referred to as spirit or the Spirit of God in the Old & New Testament. God didn’t breathe oxygen into man. Oxygen existed on this earth already when He had created plants & animals. It was not air/oxygen that God put inside us, it was a spirit. He put a spirit inside us and then we became living souls. That is when our soul (mind) comes to life. The book of James also referred to this same truth.

“For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.”

James 2:26NKJV

You don’t die when oxygen leaves your body. You die when the spirit God has placed inside you leaves your body. It is evident in this life. People can be on oxygen and still be brain dead. Physical breath or oxygen is not what gives us life, it is the spirit that God placed on the inside of us that gives us life, and when that spirit leaves our bodies we die and the spirit returns to the Lord. That is who the real person is. God is a spirit. You are a spirit also. You have a soul. You live in a Body. The Spirit is the breath of life being referred to in the book of Genesis that God placed on the inside of Adam. That is why you cannot relate to God through your flesh, you have to relate to Him through your spirit since that is His nature. God is a spirit and you have to worship Him in spirit. If He wants us to relate to Him in the spirit, it means that God has given us a spirit also, or else how are we going to serve Him. That which is born of flesh is flesh & that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit.

Now we have established that we are spirits also as God is and we have seen that He made us in His image. Now let’s look a little further into Genesis. Or backwards. Let us go to the beginning of creation and see the power of God work through His spoken Word. Our God is a God of Faith and He has made us faith born beings also. God used faith to frame the world through His Word. I want to show us an example of Faith in action. God’s kind of Faith in action during creation. How He calls those things that be not, as though they were.

“And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.”

Genesis 1:2-4 KJV

The Spirit of God (Holy Spirit) was hovering over the waters. And darkness was all over. God then looked into the darkness and called forth light. And light came out from darkness. And then He saw the light and that it was good. God spoke first and believed His word, then light came. Before He saw, He spoke. That same principle we talked about earlier, You believe before you receive. After speaking the word, the word took shape and framed itself, then He saw.

The power of Truth and Love in God’s word brought about creation. He spoke everything into existence. The power of God is in His words. When God speaks He won’t go back on His word and that word which He spoke forth will always be fulfilled because His word is truth (John 17:17). God is a faithful God. Even when we fail in our words and deeds, He always remains faithful to His own word. He never goes back on His word. God’s word can never be killed once they’re spoken forth. “He call’s those things that be not, as though they were”.

At the beginning of creation, God spoke light into existence on the very first day of creation

“Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.”

Genesis 1:3-5 NKJV

Take note of this. This was the very first day of creation. He spoke light into existence.

“Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.”

Genesis 1:14-19 NKJV

And this is now the fourth day of creation. Someone who isn’t really paying attention to this would wonder what the big deal is here, but you’ll see. On the first day of creation God created light and then on the fourth day, He created a source for light to come from in the firmament of the heavens and to give light here on earth. He made 2 lights, 1 to rule the day (sun) and another to rule the night(moon). The way we were taught, most people think that the sun is what God created on the first day, but as we can see from these verses that is not it. God spoke light into existence even before there was a source for light to come from. That is the power in the word of God. He call’s those things that be not, as though they were. God called light into existence even before there was a source for light to come from. The sun is not the source of light for this world, God’s Word is the main source of light. God’s Word is Light (John 1:4-5). God is the light of the world. God’s word is life & light. It is Spirit and life. God’s word gives birth to reality. It is an incorruptible seed, once it enter’s the ground, it must bring forth fruit. Once it is spoken it creates what God wills.

God spoke light into existence even before there was a source for light to come from. There is power in the word of God. If you need real victory in your life, that is the only way to achieve it, in the word of God. If you want to have faith to call those things that God has promised us in His word into reality and substance in your life, you need to keep abiding in the Word of God. It is where everything lies. God’s word is the seed that brings forth the fruit of Faith in us. It’s like a plant in your garden. You plant the seed of God’s word in the ground which is your heart(spirit) through you speaking forth and hearing those promises over and over again, so they keep growing in your spirit until the fruit is beginning to ripen and bring forth produce of food for the man to eat. The word of God is my point here. The Faith you are looking for from your pastor is in your Bible also. Listen to it, read it and understand it then read it to yourself everyday and I assure you, the power of Faith will flow in your life. The Power of God is in His Word. Your Faith is in the Word. Go and read it.

WORLD OVERCOMER

“For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.”

I John 5:4NKJV

I like this verse particularly because of how it puts things into perspective, first talking about being born of God. This statement needs to be made, God’s power and Faith only works in line with His word and Spirit. If you want to have this world overcoming type of Faith, you need to be born of God. Being Born of God means to be part of God’s family, by believing in His son as our Lord and Saviour and the Messiah that was sent to die and pay for our sins and also have the free gift of the Spirit of God as our teacher, guide and comforter. Being Born of God is the greatest privilege any man could have in this world and the one to come. You need to be part of God’s family. Our God is good. What ever is born of God overcomes the world. When you become part of God’s family you automatically become a world overcomer. You become an overcomer of sin, sickness, oppression, poverty and death. You become a conqueror of the devil and his kingdom. You are a world overcomer because you are born of God. You are legitimate children of God. John proclaimed this truth when He spoke about us being children of God In the book of John.

“But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”

John 1:12-13KJV

You are born of God, not of the the will of a man or flesh, but a child born of the Most High God. You’re not born of God because your parents brought you into this world, you’re born of God because you’re born again. Just like your first birth which was physical, this one is in the Spirit (Your inner man; the real you). This time you’re born from above by the Spirit of God (Holy Spirit).

Jesus spoke about this truth with Nicodemus in the 3rd chapter of John

“Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.”

John 3:5-8KJV

And whatever is born of God overcomes the world. He becomes a world overcomer only because He is born of God. Not of any other god, but the only one and true God, the creator of the heavens and the earth. I wanted to stress this point because it is the stepping stone to grasping the second part.

“…And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.”

This is the victory that has overcome the world. Our faith. Our faith is the victory we have over the world. Your faith is the victory you have over the world. That is how you overcome the world. Through your faith. Because our faith is the victory that HAS overcome the world. It didn’t say it was going to overcome the world, or it used to overcome the world, the word says it HAS already overcome the world. We are not believing in a savior that is going to come, but we are believing in a savior who has come already and has won the war for us for more than 2000 years ago. It is a done deal. The victory is won already. All we have to do is walk into the land and enjoy its spoils. Go forth into the kingdom and enjoy the abundant life of the Father. Enjoy the stillness of His being and experience the kindness of His heart. Our Faith in God’s word has made us world overcomers because it has already defeated the world. Jesus beat the devil and trampled him underfoot. We need to stop living in passive defeat. Living in passive defeat puts us in active failure. You need to realize that the war has been won on your behalf already. Jesus has come & He has done the will of God. The will of God is that none of Us perish, but that we all come to repentance. The war is won already. He has overcome the world. He reminds us in the book of John

“These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”

John 16:33KJV

I don’t know how else to stress the point, but I think you get it now. He clearly said here again, “These things I have spoken unto you..” What things has He spoken unto us you might ask. He has spoken God’s Word, because He is God’s Word. The Bible is the Word of God.

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

John 1:1KJV

He is God. Jesus is God. He spoke God’s Word to us because He was a whole embodiment of God’s word. He was God’s Word wearing a human body. He was divinity in His Spirit. The Complete wholeness of the God head. The Bible is the closest thing we have to those Words. It give’s us complete knowledge and wisdom of the Father and our inheritance in this new kingdom that we have been given out of the deepness of Love in The Heart of God. The love shed abroad in our hearts through His own Heart (Holy Spirit). Everything Jesus spoke was God’s Word because He was sent by God & He was God. The Word was God (John 1:1) and it took on flesh and dwelt amongst us and we do not realise His full light even Uptil today. Whoever is sent of God speaks the very words of God because God does not give His Spirit (The Holy Spirit) by measure unto Him.

“For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.”

John 3:34KJV

God does not give half gifts. He gives in whole because when He decides to act or speak, He acts & speaks in whole. He didn’t give His spirit by measure to Christ, He gave Him His Spirit in fullness. Just as He has given us the Spirit in fullness also. The fullness of the God head (Father, Son & Spirit) was in Christ and we are made full in Him also (Colossians 2:9-12). I say all this to a-certain to the fact that Jesus spoke the very literal Words of God while He was here on this earth. God gave Him His Spirit in Full so He spoke God’s word in full because God gave Him authority over all things (John 3:35; John 17:3).

We have overcome the world through our faith. Jesus has overcome the world already. He won the battle, and we have now been brought into a new kingdom of light, a kingdom prepared specially for the Son and his fellow brothers and sisters. Our faith gotten from God’s word through hearing and planting it into our hearts has already overcome the world. All we are doing is agreeing with what He has done for us through His death and resurrection. We are agreeing with His Word.

The Faith we get from God’s word is what Has overcome the World. So we need to know the word and act according to what it says by Faith and all things will be subject to our words filled with the Faith of God. All things will bow because what ever is born of God has overcome the whole world. We have victory over the world.

For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

Romans 8:24 KJV (Hope is a positive imagination)

I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

Psalm 91:2 KJV