It Takes Faith

Beloved, it takes faith to be who God says we are through His grace; to pray without ceasing as we arise morning after morning or whenever He calls us to seek His face.

It takes faith to believe in the one in whom God has sent; to receive Him and embrace Him as one with the Father even though you have not experienced Him in all of Who He is.

It takes faith and courage to come out of form and religion to worship and serve The Lord in the beauty of His Holiness. It takes faith to walk in total boldness, regardless of man’s expressions or opinions of you.

Beloved, it takes faith and patience to wait on God and overcome; to speak to the spiritual mountains in your life and command them to be removed. Yes, Beloved, it takes faith to live and not die, to declare the works of the Lord, yes live to fight another day. It takes faith to love and suffer while still at rest; to endure to the end and give God your best.

It takes faith to believe and rest in Jesus, the Author and Finisher of your faith. A faith that encourages, endures, and performs according to God’s Word and the measure or weight of our faith. Beloved, it takes faith to become sons of God, led by the Spirit, graced to endure, rebuke, reproving, chastening, pruning, purging, and scourging, so that we might grow up and bring Him glory.

It takes faith in Jesus to surrender our will and die to ourselves, to fight the good fight of faith, and it is this exercising of our FAITH that overcomes the world. It takes faith to overcome in the love, joy, peace, and rest of Jesus while becoming who only the Father, Son and Holy Spirit truly knows that you are; to love unconditionally, forgive freely, serve God through serving others, without thought of oneself; to live abundantly, with great expectation, believing that nothing is impossible for God, all it takes is faith the size of a mustard seed to see and become all that God says that you are. All it tales faith.

Dr. Marie