Faith must be confessed. Faith must act. Faith must be tested. The opposite of faith is unbelief. Unbelief was the root of man’s fall. We need to see the situation in which Adam and Eve were placed at creation. God had prepared a beautiful place for them, a place of delight, full provision, great joy. The… Continue reading Unbelief Was the Root of the Fall
Category: Unbelief
The Danger of Unbelief
First, faith is the one thing that is essential in relating to God. Second, faith relates us to the invisible, eternal world. Third, faith is in the heart, whereas hope is in the mind. Fourth, faith is the only basis of righteous living. I’m going to deal with the opposite of faith, that is unbelief.… Continue reading The Danger of Unbelief
How to Overcome Doubt
No one is immune to doubt. It can and does happen to us all. You’ve just got to know how to handle it when it comes. Even the greatest men and women of God recorded in the Bible had to deal with doubt. Jesus said of John the Baptist, “Verily I say unto you, Among… Continue reading How to Overcome Doubt
The uprooting of guilt
If you carry deep guilt and self-condemnation for stumblings or falterings along the way, look for the cause of them. Those failures were probably only symptoms of a deep-rooted unbelief in the Word. Believe the Word over you, for the Living Word is the issue, not the weakness of your flesh. There is nothing more… Continue reading The uprooting of guilt
Bitterness remembers what God has forgotten
God changes the past, the present, and the future. In His mind, the only true history is not a record of facts; it is the reality that came into existence by faith. When you read all the stories of faith in Hebrews 11, and when you read the records of men in the Scriptures and… Continue reading Bitterness remembers what God has forgotten
God opened the door
A great deal of what we go through in our relationships is based upon our fear of being rejected and our struggle to be accepted. In Peter’s first Epistle, he wrote about rejection, about our acceptance by God, about our own acceptance of our place in God, and our acceptance of one another with a… Continue reading God opened the door