Mark 11:22-24

How Faith Works

Faith is what you believe. In the Bible, faith is the noun form and believe is the verb form of the same word.
Faith a belief is always a decision, based on some evidence, resulting in some action. Faith in God is a choice to believe what God says is true. It is accepting God's Word as evidence worthy of acting upon.
Faith in God and His Word operates on the same principles as faith in anything else. There are no special rules. It is all a matter of what you believe. All humans operate on a belief system. As we go through life we are constantly being presented with information which is evidence that we must evaluate and judge.
Whenever we choose to accept the evidence presented to us as sufficient to accept as truth, then that belief is added to our belief system. Unless and until we are presented with new evidence that causes
us to decide to believe differently about a subject, we keep the same belief. Then as we go through life, we always act  on the basis of our belief system. Sometimes we face situations in life where there is not time to think, and immediate action is required. These actions are always governed by the beliefs we have already determined which form our belief system. The Bible is major evidence to change your beliefs. It is a
message from God, the Creator, who knows how everything works. As we receive new evidence from the Bible, it may conflict with some of our previous beliefs. But we know that God cannot lie, and whatever He says is truth and will happen.  Fear is the opposite of Bible hope. Bible hope is a positive expectation based on and supported by a belief in God's Word. Fear is a negative expectation based on and supported by a
belief in something bad. Both involve the imagination, the seeing part of our thinking, the ability to visualize something before it happens, or after it happens.Faith in God produces Bible hope  expecting good to happen. Faith in bad things produces fear expecting bad to happen. Faith is the support, the foundation, the underlying thing under both hope and fear. You cannot have hope. It is your belief that supports, under girds  and provides the basis for your hope or fear. The belief was a choice you made. Then it became part of your belief system. That provides the basis for your hopes or your fears. Faith is released and put into action by speaking what you believe with your mouth. The primary action of faith toward God is speaking in agreement
with God's Word. And then we stand in that position of faith, regardless of feelings or circumstances, no matter how long it takes.





22 So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God.
23 For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. 24 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them. (Mark 11:22-24).