For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. Rom 1:16,17).
New Walk, New Attitude
The natural man walks by sight and is led by the five senses for the inner eyes are gone due to the fall. He’s deaf, blind and dumb, as far as the things of the Spirit is concerned. But the New Creation in Christ has now been restored to the life of God and the eyes of his spirit are widely open. God expect His children therefore, not to walk like mere men of the world, nor judge things by the five senses but to walk by faith. As He said, the Just shall live by faith. He wants us to walk by faith, not by sight.
So, then what is Faith? Faith is acting like what God has said is the absolute truth. Faith is acting upon His word, acting like God has told you the infallible truth. It affirms the integrity of God and His Word. The basis for Faith is the word that God has spoken. If God hasn’t spoken it, there is no basis for faith with respect to that topic. Faith is not a leap in the dark an unreal make-believe, but a well grounded substance. Faith is a substance. Though a substance in the realm which natural men and women have no access to. The Epistle to the Hebrews defines Faith as:
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Heb 1:1 KJV)
Now faith is a well-grounded assurance of that for which we hope, and a conviction of the reality of things which we do not see (Heb 1:1 Weymouth)
Faith is real, and it’s the evidence of the things in the invisible realm.
It is the ’substance’ you can hold on to during the interim while what you have prayed which you can see with the eyes of faith, is traversing from the invisible realm into the physical or visible realm. This is what God did at Creation. In the beginning the earth was empty, then God said “Let there be…”; and whatever He called appeared, coming from the invisible realm to the visible. God did not make the things we see out of nothing, God through faith “created the things that are seen out of the things which are unseen. When He said “Let there be Light”; Light came out from the realm of God who is Spirit, and Who dwell in Light unapproachable, whom no man has seen nor can see. All the seen things in creation came out of the unseen realm. God wants the New Creation man to live and walk like Him. Faith calleth those things that be not(in the visible realm) as though they were, because faith already sees them in the unseen realm.
Faith is of the spirit. It is a product of the New Creation man and grows in his heart as he stands on the word which God has spoken. Faith is not a product of reason, logic or human intelligence. It is believing and acting upon what God has said. When we hear the word of God and we believe, then we act in line with that word. That acting on the word is faith. Saying we believe without action is not faith. The world says: “Seeing is believing”, but the Lord Jesus says, “If you believe, you shal see the glory of God”. With Him, “Believing is Seeing”
So how can we get faith:
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 (Rom 10:14-17)
Study and prayerfully meditate on the promises of God, your inheritance, your heritage, your benefits, and the delegated authority you’re entitled to in the Name of Jesus and begin to walk in them. Start with walking in His righteousness. Be righteousness-conscious, for the Scriptures say–Christ is your righteousness, and you are the righteousness of God in Him.
As we discussed earlier, the Name of Jesus belongs to the Body of Christ. So if you’re a New Creation in Christ, that “Wonderful Name” belongs to you.
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Yes, there’s a Name above every name, and that’s the Name of Jesus. Heaven, earth, and hell must bow to the authority in that Name. Jesus has been exalted above all kingdoms, above all power, above all dominion, above all principalities, and above every name is named. And so is His Name. And He has given us the authority to use His Name.
Because of the above fact, we can rebuke devils in the Name of Jesus, and they have to obey. We can command sickness and diseases to go in the Name of Jesus and they will obey the authority in the Name. If you are sick, you can lay your hand on wherever the problem is nd receive your healing in the Name of Jesus. You can do the same for your child, or husband, or wife, or mother, or sister or even your father. You can lay hands on those that are sick and pray for their healing in the Name of Jesus, and they will recover. There is power in the Name of Jesus.
A New Passion, A New Generation,
The purpose of our calling as New Creation in Christ Jesus is to enable us return to a restored communion with the Father as it once was in the Garden. Our new nature now allows God to abide in us and we can dwell in His Presence. In the old Adam, we saw God kick man out of the Garden, and kept him away by the flaming sword of the Cherubims. In the new, God is asking man to come into His holy of holies to fellowship with Him. In fact, He wants to make man His permanent Tabernacle. Therefore brethren, let us turn our full attention to the Lord and seek Him with a new passion. This is the time to inquire of the Lord; this is the time to seek His face. This is the time when true worshippers will worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. This is the day and hour that our God has been waiting for and the generation that His Spirit desires; the generation of them that seek Him.
These indeed agree with the words of the prophets—that the day and hour of a mighty outpouring of the Spirit of God is upon us. This is the hour when a generation will begin to seek God in spirit and sincerity.
Dear friend, before you continue reading, ask yourself: What do I seek? Whom do I seek? What is my passionate desire? What is my daily pursuit and principal desire?
We know, without the shadow of a doubt, what the world seeks after. The Lord Jesus has already told us in Scriptures what the world seeks after. In the sixth chapter of Matthew, He said: “For after all these things do the heathen seek.” After what do they seek? The heathen seek after things. They seek after stuff and pursue the things of this world with a passion.
Children of God do not seek after things, or, should we say, are not to seek things. They do not spend their lives seeking and pursuing the things of this world with the heathen. They do not join the world in the rat-race and involve themselves in the so-called dog-eat-dog world. When the children of God are in need, they ask their Father and He supplies their needs. The heathen do not know how to ask God, so they push and shove, and scramble to get what they want.
What does the Scripture tells us to seek? Throughout the Scriptures there is only one Person that the people of God are admonished to seek. The Almighty God is the only One the people of God are to seek. To make any other thing our object of desire is to put that object in the place of God. Seeking after God should be our ultimate passion. The heathen seek “things” but the Saints of the Most High seek after their God. This is their reason for life; this is the purpose of the New Creation.
The Apostle Paul teaching us against worldliness in the New Testa- ment wrote this in his Epistle to the Romans:
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, and ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God” (Rom 12:1-2).
Here the Apostle is admonishing us to present our body to God as a living sacrifice which is one that is acceptable to God. As we discussed above in the early part of this Chapter, God spoke to Moses stating that when anyone brings an offering to Him, it must be from a willing heart. An offering from a willing heart is a living sacrifice and this is what is acceptable to God. Here, the Apostle is saying that, like the
Burnt-offering of the Old testament, we should wholly and willingly surrender our bodies as a living sacrifice on the Altar of Burnt-offering. And as we do, the fire of the Holy Ghost will fall upon us and our life will be offered unto God as a sweet smelling savor, holy and acceptable unto Him.
We are to present our bodies wholly to God as a living sacrifice. This is our spiritual worship. God seeks a spiritual offering, an offering presented in spirit and in truth. An offering given to Him of a free will and out of the heart. An offering of life, willingly and wholly laid upon the Altar. Not one given grudgingly or under compulsion. But one which, like Isaac, is laid on the Altar in obedience and total submission to the Father God. We are to, like our Lord and Master, willingly lay down our life on the Altar.
It is important to understand that this is the true worship that God is looking for from us. This was symbolized by burnt-offering in the Old Testament, an offering made by fire that brings worship and adoration to the Most High. Burnt-offerings means worship. We worship God not only with our words but with the totality of our life laid upon the altar. A life total devoted to God in words and deeds is the worship He desires.
We must understand that offering our worship to God is not just singing and praying but the life that we live in praise of our God. A life lived in honor of God and dedicated to the cause of righteousness and holiness, a life lived as “Holiness unto the Lord” is the acceptable worship and desired sacrifice that God is looking for. This is the living sacrifice the Apostle is talking about