If it's not now....it's not faith!

Hebrews 11:1 NOW  faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. If there is anything I have learned during my time here at New Life Bible College, Norvel Hayes Ministries it is that you can't leave out the NOW in that verse. The Word of God is truth now! Anything other than the Word of God is a lie. The Word says in James 2:23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass. For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straight way forgetteth what manner of man he was. When we become born again we decide that God's way is truth and we will believe everything He has to say ( or at least we should) The whole Bible is true. The Word says that God is not a man that He could lie. and it also says let God be true and every man a lie. We see in the Word in different places that when Jesus went to the cross He took all of our sickness and disease, all our sin, all our poverty, depression, and the list goes on. HE made us totally victorious. Anything that isn't victory in our lives is contrary to the Word of God and is a lie from satan. Because it is a lie we can know that our faith works NOW to believe God at His Word. If you knew that your hair was black and short and you looked in the mirror and it was black and short, but you walked away and someone tried to convince you that it was actually red and it was really long even thought you knew that it was short and black. You wouldn't believe them because You know who You are and that your mirror doesn't lie to you. It is the same thing with the Word. We look in it and it tells us that we are healed and that is just the way it is, but we walk away from it and the devil puts a symptom on us and tries to convince us that we are sick. We need to get the Word on the inside of us so that we know exactly who Jesus has made us so no matter what it is he brings we know that it is contrary to the Word and we won't believe his lies anymore than we would let someone  tell us our hair is red when it is obviously black. It should just be second nature to us. So our faith is NOW! It doesn't matter what anything looks like, feels like, sounds like, etc. We know that our faith works now and it's the truth whether we see it right away or not!!