What is Faith?

By Lester Roloff  

Faith is real. 

Faith is a gift. 

 Faith is the life of Christ. 

Faith is the rope tied to the bucket of reality, dipping itself into the fullness of God. 

Faith is stepping when there is no place to step. I don't think the children of Israel stepped into the Red Sea after it was all dry. I believe when Moses stepped, the water was right there in front of him, but I believe as he picked up his foot and put it down, the water was gone and the ground was dry. It wasn't taking any faith for him to place his foot down on a piece of dry land if it was already dry all the way across. My prediction is that it might not have even rolled back except as they walked. That's faith! 

Faith will never be understood down here. Elijah, Moses, Abraham, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Micah, and many others, especially Jesus, were not understood. They weren't understood down here and you won't be. 

Faith is victory. Faith is living the overcoming life. 

Faith is more forceful than fire. 

 Faith is the key to the lions' jaws. 

 Faith is the power that destroyed the walls of Jericho. Can you imagine anyone as foolish as that bunch of Israelites? Do you know what tore down the walls of Jericho? The Word of God. Do you know what living by faith is? Just taking God at His Word. Faith doesn't always make sense to the world but faith makes sense to me, because God says, "I will supply all your needs." I've believed Him and He has. 

Faith is the road to the city not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 

Faith became deliverance for the millions of Israelites without a shot being fired and with only one casualty. That casualty cost Moses a sentence of forty years in the wilderness. 

Faith is seeing the unseen, the invisible. Faith is endurance. Faith is the opposite of fear. Faith is pleasing God. 

Faith is Bible living. 

Faith is salvation. 

Faith is the Christian's keeping power. 

Faith is the hand and arm that is reaching after the garment of God for certain healing. 

Faith is man's extremity and God's opportunity. 

Faith is life's extension cord. 

Faith is the authority of God. 

Faith is the mixture that makes the Gospel effective.

Faith is the storm-stopper. 

Faith is man resting and God working. 

Faith is receiving. 

 Faith is giving all. 

Faith is God in action on the battlefield, winning every battle and making real what Christ made possible. 

Faith is complete surrender demonstrated by Jesus on the cross, denied by Peter, forsaken by His own, betrayed by Judas, with heaven's gates closed in His face, with the angels silent, his telephone line to the Father's house clipped, deserted by the Spirit, but Jesus still had faith? 

Do you have that kind of faith? Do you have the kind of faith that will give you victory in your daily life every day?