Take FAITH hostage
Have you ever watched a movie where someone is kidnapped and the kidnapper either leaves a ransom note or makes a telephone call to someone indicating his demands for return of the one kidnapped? The kidnapper usually contacts someone extremely close to the kidnapped person because he knows that that person will respond and do everything possible to retrieve their loved one as soon as possible. The note usually reads something like this:
If you want to see so-n-so again. I need 1million dollars and a helicopter or a super fast car – NO COPs or else!
It’s usually very emotional for the family. The only one that benefits from an ordeal like this is the kidnapper UNTIL he gets caught by the cops.
I want to flip this scenario and make it personal and show you how you can benefit from taking something hostage. A hostage is a person seized or held as security for the fulfillment of a condition.
For the sake of this blog, our hostage's name is FAITH. “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.”
Have you ever considered the advantage of taking FAITH hostage? Holding onto it until God releases unto you, all that you request?
In movies, the kidnapped one is always the one who has fear of the unknown. But I want to let you know that even as you take faith hostage, there are going to be some things to work in your favor. You see, the Word of God says that “the trying (adapted to try, or put to severe trial) of your faith worketh patience.” So even if your faith tries to waver, when you grab hold to it tightly, and bind it to your very existence and being, you are going to come out with something beneficial -PATIENCE! Patience is the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset.
Can you stand to have a little patience when those things that you need, have yet to surface or manifest fully in the natural realm? If so, busy yourself, by capturing some faith, as a matter of fact hold it close, tight, long, don’t let it escape and out of it will flow Patience and in God’s time, the very thing that you need.
You see, God is moved by faith, He is pleased by it.
“Without faith it is impossible to please God,” (Habakkuk 2:4).
So when He looks down and sees you detaining your faith, he is delighted. God responds to it but He does not respond to the absence of faith. So holding faith hostage is not a bad thing! It’s actually valuable, “the just shall live by faith,” it will “save the sick,” it can be used as protection against the enemy (see Ephesians 6:16), and it can lead us where we need to go (see 2 Corinthians 5:7).
In order to get what you need from God, you need faith, because it takes faith and a lot of it to speak forth the Word of God to God. We need FAITH to speak and believe that there will be a response to our hearts desires from God. Our belief will be accounted to us as righteousness. God responds to His Word, because He responds to Himself. Isaiah 55:11 states “so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper [in the thing] whereto I sent it.” Ok so when you speak back to God, what He has already said, and all that He is, something is going to happen. It’s going to accomplish something.
Now I ask, what is it that you need God to do? Do you have Faith in your possession? If not, go get it and don’t let it go, until you get what you need from God.
Be encouraged. Abduct Faith.
And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen. Matthew 21:21
Believe, Love, Obey God
~Tanika
If you want to see so-n-so again. I need 1million dollars and a helicopter or a super fast car – NO COPs or else!
It’s usually very emotional for the family. The only one that benefits from an ordeal like this is the kidnapper UNTIL he gets caught by the cops.
I want to flip this scenario and make it personal and show you how you can benefit from taking something hostage. A hostage is a person seized or held as security for the fulfillment of a condition.
For the sake of this blog, our hostage's name is FAITH. “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.”
Have you ever considered the advantage of taking FAITH hostage? Holding onto it until God releases unto you, all that you request?
In movies, the kidnapped one is always the one who has fear of the unknown. But I want to let you know that even as you take faith hostage, there are going to be some things to work in your favor. You see, the Word of God says that “the trying (adapted to try, or put to severe trial) of your faith worketh patience.” So even if your faith tries to waver, when you grab hold to it tightly, and bind it to your very existence and being, you are going to come out with something beneficial -PATIENCE! Patience is the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset.
Can you stand to have a little patience when those things that you need, have yet to surface or manifest fully in the natural realm? If so, busy yourself, by capturing some faith, as a matter of fact hold it close, tight, long, don’t let it escape and out of it will flow Patience and in God’s time, the very thing that you need.
You see, God is moved by faith, He is pleased by it.
“Without faith it is impossible to please God,” (Habakkuk 2:4).
So when He looks down and sees you detaining your faith, he is delighted. God responds to it but He does not respond to the absence of faith. So holding faith hostage is not a bad thing! It’s actually valuable, “the just shall live by faith,” it will “save the sick,” it can be used as protection against the enemy (see Ephesians 6:16), and it can lead us where we need to go (see 2 Corinthians 5:7).
In order to get what you need from God, you need faith, because it takes faith and a lot of it to speak forth the Word of God to God. We need FAITH to speak and believe that there will be a response to our hearts desires from God. Our belief will be accounted to us as righteousness. God responds to His Word, because He responds to Himself. Isaiah 55:11 states “so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper [in the thing] whereto I sent it.” Ok so when you speak back to God, what He has already said, and all that He is, something is going to happen. It’s going to accomplish something.
Now I ask, what is it that you need God to do? Do you have Faith in your possession? If not, go get it and don’t let it go, until you get what you need from God.
Be encouraged. Abduct Faith.
And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen. Matthew 21:21
Believe, Love, Obey God
~Tanika
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