Our participation is involved in bringing God’s will to pass in our lives. Many will prefer for God to do it all for them. Since God does not impose His will on us, we need to understand the place of our reliance and active dependence on God. Hebrews 6:12 says we should imitate those who through FAITH and PATIENCE inherit the promises. Patience, endurance and long-suffering are three virtues that will enhance our walk with God. Patience is necessarily in dealing with God, endurance in dealing with things and long suffering when dealing with people.

Faith has to do with our believing, receiving and acting on the Word of God. It is strengthened by our meditation in the Word (promises). To meditate is to conceive and mutter to ourselves. We let the Word (promises) become so much more real to us than the problem. We do what we can do as we stay in agreement with the Word and reliance on God. Faith is the inner conviction that produces outward confidence.

Hebrews 10: 35-39
35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

Patience is the ability to stay consistently in faith until the promises become a reality. When you are ready to stand forever, you won’t stand for long. When you believe, you receive. Patience (staying consistent) is necessarily to have that which you believed you received.

Hebrews 11: 1 - Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Hebrews 11: 6 - 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: 13 - These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Faith comes by hearing God’s Word.

Romans 10: 17 - So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Faith reduces or goes by fear-filled words. Faith demands a heart and mouth connection. Say God’s Word until you believe it, then say it when you believe it until you actually build an inner-image of it’s reality on the canvas of your heart. That inner-image is the hope built by God’s Word. It is the anchor of our soul in Hebrews

Hebrews 6: 19 - Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;

I accept God’s Word as final authority, I consciously believe it and patiently dwell on it until the image of failure or death gets completely wiped out inside me.

Faith is what opens the door, patience is what keeps it open until the promises are fulfilled here in this life time.

HIS WORD IS BACKED BY HIS POWER!

Rev. Kola Ewuosho