FAITH IS THE LANGUAGE OF GOD by Nancy Fitzpatrick Gilmore
In regard to being sensitive to how others 'take' what we
say; we need to recognize...- 'since deception makes you think you are
something you are not' - the Holy Spirit, who IS love, must 'definitely' be a
disturbance in other peoples lives. I'm never concerned about that because in
this life we say what we hear the Spirit saying, and know He is reaching His
objective. SO.. when we know someone says they 'believe,' but do not
"speak faith" ...- we address that. And we too will be a disturbance
in others lives as the Lord uses us.
Faith is a language of the Spirit we learn. It's the
language of God. It is from another dimension; the invisible. The faith that
speaks is generated in us by Christ; The Invisible One.
Abraham believed and it was counted as righteousness unto
him. So Abraham's believing was real faith. It was the substance of things
hoped for and the evidence of things not see. We can learn this language of
faith directly by God's revelation to Abraham. It's recorded in Romans 4:13-25.
It's telling us that Abraham 'caught on' to how God operates. It says Abraham
saw in God's promise that God called those things that be not as though they
were!
Abraham copied God's method, and with everything out of
Abraham's reach physically, against hope, he believed! And Abraham was credited
by God - God's-substance! It is the evidence that is in the promise. Abraham
had his son! The promise was as good as the boy! And being not weak in faith,
Abraham considered NOT his own body dead when it was about 100 years old,
neither the deadness of Sarah's womb. He staggered not at the promise of God
through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God.
Now we do the same thing! Abraham is the 'father of our
faith.' Abraham gave us this pattern. Abraham teaches us the 'know-how' of
faith. He learned how to operate in faith. SO it says, Abraham being fully
persuaded that what God promised, He was able also to perform. In other words
this is a sure thing! And he said so! For 25 years he said so. Do you suppose
he got some persecution? Or do you suppose they made fun of him? You see his
name got change when he got faith. Names back then truly meant certain things
to others, and Abraham means "I'm a daddy!"
Now this is the language of the Spirit of God. It operates
on a higher level than rational or reason, and it has nothing to do with
'sense-knowledge!' It requires a leap into a different form of operation than
we are accustom to at first. But we soon learn we are in union with God, who
CANNOT LIE! Union means we co-operate with God
in the way He does things.
Nancy Fitzpatrick Gilmore