Faith Life 2 (GOD USES THE SAME FAITH AS OURS)

GRACE ABOUNDS ONLINE BIBLE STUDY
THEME: FAITH LIFE OF CHRISTIAN BELIEVERS (Part 2)
TOPIC: GOD USES THE SAME FAITH AS OURS
SPEAKER: PETER AYOOLA FAKEYE (PAF)

Ephesians 1
God has chosen Christ for the world to be the center and the central of all human history; to be the anchor and the pillar of the whole world. God has chosen Christ to be the creative force behind the creation of the universe, and also the remedy of it even before the world began. Christ had become everything the world will ever need before the world was created. And that's why the Bible says, He was slain before the world began (Revelation 13:8)
In the sight of God, whenever He sees Jesus, He sees the picture of the entire world, even when the world has not been created. Jesus had been the creative force and component of the world. That's why God did not have to worry when He spoke the world into existence because He has Faith in His son. God knew that His son possesses the same ability He has. It is important to note that faith is engage as a result of knowledge of Christ we have. The understanding of Christ we have will engage faith in our lives. The reason we worry is because of lack of knowledge of what Christ has been made for us and what we have been made in Him. I am glad to tell you that he has been chosen for us and we have been chosen in him. 
God had already seen the world by faith in His Son before He sees it into existence. Brethren, what you have not seen in your heart by faith, you can't receive them into existence. Every of this Spiritual blessedness is not dangling in the air, but it's anchored on Jesus. Everything you see in the physical is what has been established in the Spiritual realm. Unfortunately, many Christian believers are physically dominated and this is why faith has not been functioning appropriately in our lives. 

Hebrew 11:3
The created world was not just hanging or dangling in the air. God didn't speak the world out of nowhere, but rather he spoke the world into existence from the source point which is Christ Jesus. The word that the Father spoke during creation was embedded in a personality, which is His Son, Jesus Christ. The word spoken is equivalent to the personality, the sufficiency, the potency of the God’s Son, Jesus. God has never joked with His word, because He knows the content of it. 

John 1:1-5
When God was speaking the word into creation, He saw that the word creating what he had already seen in His Son. It's just like a painter who had already painted an art privately in his studio, but gets to display it during an Art exhibition. So also, God spoke the world out in time because the creation had already been concluded in His Son. 

Friends! Confidence rises when we know that everything we need has already been concluded in Christ Jesus. The reason the world is in chaos is because it has forgotten its source. When you take your eyes away from Christ, who is your source, then your lives may not take the shape God want it to take.
When men fell, God did not have any worry about restoring them back to their position. Because He knows the ability of His Son never fades with time. If Christ had offered himself to be the Carrier of the world before the foundation of the world, then His blood will never lose its efficacy.
Jesus is the center and central of all human history. And through all eternity, He will still be.

God bless you.
Grace Abouds!

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