Before, when traveling, you had to change large amounts of money in the currency of the place to be able to buy. Now, in many places, there are stores where both American dollars and the currency of the place are accepted. But, in stores that do not accept, you could have all the money you want in dollars, and if you do not have the local currency, they will not sell you the product. You have the money, but you do not have the power to exchange. And there are things that you can not exchange for money, unless you have the right currency. But there is another alternative; A credit card that, in the most remote place in the world, they accept. On your credit card there may be dollars, but when you put it in the machine, there is a transaction that transforms your dollars into another currency without you seeing it. And all you need in the kingdom of God, the card that gives you access to everything, is faith. If we see those who are part of the list of faith we see in Hebrews 11, if holiness were the currency to achieve what they achieved, Sarah would not be on that list; If the coin were to have a good past, Raab would not be on that list, but when God went to choose the lineage of Jesus, it did not bother him to pick up a woman despite his past; His faith gave him access to what others could not have. A prostitute, by faith, became part of the lineage from which our Lord Jesus Christ came.
If the currency to receive miracles and live by faith was the moral being before the standards of the world, Samson would not be in Hebrews 11. How does a man who sleeps with prostitutes are listed in the faith? If the currency to succeed in this life was courage, how is Gideon there? If when God called him, the first thing he said was: Who am I? I am very young, I can not achieve it. It was not Gideon's bravery, but faith.
The only currency of exchange that you have in the kingdom of God is one: Your faith.
"17 Elijah was a man subject to passions similar to ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months." James 5:17
Elijah was a man fluctuating in his emotions; One day I was sad, and another happy. In the same way, there are days when you get up depressed, sad; But, if your life does not change, it is because you think you need to always be up to pray. What you need is to have faith like Elijah, that although one day he was up and another one down, he dared to pray, to believe. I prayed above and prayed down; He did not change his emotional state to pray. You think that your emotions are necessary to receive the miracle, but it is not your emotions but your faith that God exchanges when you need a miracle from Him.
"29 Then he touched their eyes, saying: According to your faith be it done unto you. 30 And their eyes were opened ... "Matthew 9: 29-30a
A blind man exchanged his healing by faith. There was no money to make him see, but Jesus said to him: According to your faith, it will be done.
"28 Then Jesus answered and said, O woman, great is your faith; Ask yourself how you want. And her daughter was healed from that hour. "Matthew 15:28
This woman exchanged her faith for the healing of her daughter.
"16 Therefore it is by faith, so that it may be by grace, so that the promise may be firm to all his descendants; not only for the one who is of the law, but also for the one who is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all. "Romans 4:16
Today there is much talk of the grace of God, but we forget that access to that grace is by faith. Those who are on the list of faith in Hebrews 11 do not deserve to be there; It was the grace of God that put them there. The grace of God does not measure your sin, does not look at your past, God does not look at what you did or what you do, do not look at your moral, if you are doing right or wrong. God, what he looks at is if you believe; And, as you believe, you live in grace. That does not mean that you can sin; Christians seek to flee from sin; But we do not allow our natural condition to stop us from believing, because grace only manifests itself by faith.
You are where you are because you have believed, not because you deserve it. How did you get where you are? You do not know. All you have and what you are is for one thing: By faith. You have dared to believe what others do not. And when you do not have money, your only tool is faith.
When you live by faith, you have joy, because faith turns hope into joy. Proverbs 13:12 says that the hope that is delayed is the torment of the heart, but the tree of life is the wish fulfilled. When you wait for something, and it takes, you get sick; But faith allows you to see near what comes far, and becomes joy. Do not wait to enjoy yourself when you receive what you expect; Have joy when, by faith, you see it near. You rejoice when, by faith, you see today what will be tomorrow. You enjoy yourself because your faith gives you today the certainty of what arrives. If you do not have joy, it's because you do not have faith.
Faith makes you see near; And when you learn to see nearby, your life changes, because you begin to see things differently.
Faith appropriates the promises of God, as one who has a property title. When you have faith, your faith tells you that what God promised you belongs to you. The Syro-Phoenician woman asked Jesus for her daughter, and Jesus said to her: It is not worthy to give the children's bread to the dogs. In other words: The law forbids me to give you what you want. But she, by faith, said: But even the dogs eat of the crumbs that fall from the table of their lord. His faith seized the promise. Your faith takes over what the world has said is not for you.
Faith holds your mind, not logical reasoning, but the word of God. Therefore, in Hebrews 11, it says: By faith we understand ... The only language you must understand is faith. Faced with a problem, that of resolving with the bank, you should not understand it. They ask you how you have done it, and you can give certain clues, but after all, you do not know. The one who tells you that he knows all the keys to his success is lying to you. If you come to talk about projects where there is no faith, you should not understand; And when you speak, let it be in faith. In your life, everything must be by faith.