Every Day With Jesus, January 22, 2023

 

Every Day With Jesus

January 22: Faith and Hope 

Hebrews 11:1-6

Hebrews 11:1-6

Faith is Being Sure

1Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2For by it the elders obtained a good report.

3Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

The Faith of Abel, Enoch, Noah

4By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. 

5By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 

6But 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 11:1

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 

Note:

Substance  definition: (noun) entity, element, essence, meaning, wealth 

Hope definition: (noun) longing, dream, (verb) long for, dream about

Evidence definition (noun) proof (verb) proved

There is a direct relationship between faith and hope. You can’t have one without the other. Faith gives substance to things we hope for. Remove hope, and faith has no goal to achieve. A story that illustrates this is about a hillbilly who wandered into a church service. As the people started praising the Lord, the temperature in the sanctuary began to rise. He saw an usher walk over to the wall and turn a dial on a little white box. Within seconds cool air blew out of a vent onto this hillbilly’s face. Utterly amazed, he thought this must be one of the greatest things he’d ever experienced!

Immediately he asked the usher what the device was and how he could get one. The usher told him it was a thermostat and all hardware stores sold them. The man could hardly wait to get out of the church service and buy one. After purchasing a thermostat, he took it home and mounted it on the wall of his house; but no matter how much he turned the dial, cool air never came out.

This man didn’t realize that the thermostat didn’t produce the cool air. It only turned the power unit on and off. That’s a beautiful picture of the way faith and hope work together. Hope is your thermostat. It activates your faith. Although your faith is the power that overcomes the world, hope is the victory your faith moves to achieve. Remove hope, and faith will never be activated. Faith must have a goal.

Let God build a strong hope in you today, and then release all your faith behind it.

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Devotional by Pastor Andrew Wommack.  

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