Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
Here is the essence of faith ... God speaks ... the person believes ... and the person also knows God is able to do that which HE promises and HE is faithful to do that which HE promises.
Sarah had no child and yet God promised Abraham that he would have descendants as the sand of the sea in number.
Then the angel spoke that Sara would have a child. Sara was 90 at that time. She laughed. But she knew God was faithful to do what HE said ...
Then in Hebrews 11, we read that Sara judged God faithful ...
Heb. 11:11 ... Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
Sara wanted a child. But it was not this wanting that brought the strength to bear the child. That which brought the strength was Sara hearing the word spoken by the angel concerning the matter. And after the word came, Sara knew God was faithful to perform that word.
It is the same with us today. We hear the word from the Spirit of God and faith comes into our heart. First there comes the word on the issue. Then faith.
At the end of the daily writings, we are now listing Bible chapters to encourage you to read more Bible. Something happens to us when we read these entire chapters. The presence of God fills us as we choose to focus on HIS word. By listing these chapters, we give more opportunity to encourage us to fill ourselves with more of the word of God. You could find chapters by yourself. But will you? Or do you find you are reading more Bible since we began listing these chapters with each daily section of writing on the blog. The blog is a bit like God's daily newspaper. We read the various writings and then we read all these chapters for ourselves. I find good fruit comes when I read these chapters. I think you will find that also. It is simply fruit we might not have had if left to our own devices and to the pull of the world and the many options present by events of the world.