Whatever is not of Faith is Sin
What do you believe? - That is faith.
God will meet you where your faith is.
Meaning, some can believe to truly move a mountain; others can believe to get their fussy car to start; others are simply believing to get out of bed in the morning…yes, being slightly humorous…but you get my point.
Wherever your faith is, God will meet you there!
The faith of one person is in a different place than another and God will meet you according to you using your faith. For example, if someone has a medical background and their faith is in the medicine from the doctor, fine. Simply pray over the medicine each day when you take it, just like you pray over your food, expecting God to work through that medicine to deliver you from whatever the issue is. God meets you where your faith is.
When you are new to living Godly, it’s like being a young child. God doesn’t expect a 4 year old to drive a car. He nurtures them closely. There’s more grace - meaning they can get away with things a mature believer cannot. Just like that 4 year old child. The parents know they have to help bathe and clothe the little one each day but as they get older the parents expect the child, who is 10 or 16 to bathe and clothe themselves. It’s the same.
Faith is simple - it is whatever you believe. Everyone believes something. Including atheists. They believe that.
Back to the example of healing: when your young in the faith you may not know how to take Authority over your body to be healed. Or you may not be aware of blessing your food to keep the toxic chemicals among other things, away from your body. There’s many things a young believer may not know and the Lord will protect them.
However, as a believer matures, God’s expectation is greater. Perhaps you have always had someone pray for you for healing and it’s worked each time. At a certain point in time the Lord expects you to pull up your faith-boots and stand for your own healing. You can tell because when you have had people pray for you and it hasn’t worked. This is a means of the Lord letting you know you have to stand on your faith, not someone else’s.
God is faith.
Faith, hope, and love - the greatest of these is love and God is love, so God is faith and hope. And He is in us. Therefore His faith is in us. And it’s like a muscle. It needs to be worked.
Hebrews 11:1, 6 Says faith is the substance of things hoped for - or expected from the promises in the Word of God - and it’s the evidence of what your hoping for before you see it. It’s the evidence that it exists because God spoke it, just like He spoke the earth, moon, and stars. And faith pleases God. We always want to please our Father. We simply take scripture regarding a situation and stand on it - this means to read it, speak it out loud over ourselves and our lives until manifestation comes.
Use it. Believing. Using God’s faith to bring it to pass. You stay on that scripture each day until it comes to pass. And you don’t really have to ask for it. God already spoken it into being. Simply believe. That’s what a “disciple” is: disciplined one - stay steady on the Word - confessing the Word as a “disciplined one” until it comes to pass.
But when we operate in fear, that is not faith. And whatsoever is not of faith is sin - so CAST DOWN THAT VAIN IMAGINATION and replace it with your faith filled scripture you’re using - Romans 14:23. Let’s look at the entire verse: “But whoever has doubts is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.” Symbolically “eating” is eating from the Word of God, it is our “food.” Our Spiritual meal. That’s why Jesus called Himself the “Bread of Life.” John 6:35.
Let’s look at this a bit deeper. What is your “conscious” telling you? That’s where the doubts are. Sometimes it comes from our thinking - which may be true or may not be, but we think they are. Everything we think is not truth. 1 Corinthians 4:4; & 1 Corinthians 8 is about abiding by your own conscious even if it’s not the Truth.
Whether conviction is coming from your own mind or coming from the Holy Spirit, OBEY it. If it was coming from you own thinking, the Holy Spirit will show you at the proper time. You are still operating in faith by obeying your conscious. Because if we do not, we sin. Whatever your conscious deems as sin, if you do it, it is sin. (I Corinthians 8:7.) For instance: If you believe having a glass of wine is sinful, then it is. (I know I may have to address this for some. Jesus said, “All things in moderation”; and in Titus 2:3 to not be addicted to much wine.” You can be addicted to sugar. Whatever the addiction is, is the sin.)
Jesus BECAME SIN, ENTIRELY for us and PLACED ALL of it in hell!
ALL OF IT!!! FOREVER. ALL SIN HAS BEEN BOUGHT AND PAID FOR!
ALL we have to do is put our bodies into subjection to the Word and change our way of thinking to what the WORD SAYS ABOUT IT. If we sin He is faithful and just to forgive us. In fact He has already forgiven us of all sin, otherwise if He didn’t Jesus would have to die on the cross again. What sin does is block you from hearing God. And now more than ever we NEED to hear God. Stay in faith, abide by your conscious, and stay in the love of God and in love with God.