By Darlene Aiken
What is faith? Refer to Hebrews 11
When we lack faith, we subscribe to a mentality that believes in scarcity. Scarcity is totally the opposite of who God is and what He's about. In addition, when God talks about abundance, His abundance is not like our abundance. Just for starters, let’s think about whatever we imagine abundance being and multiply it by 100 trillion just for starters. That may seem overwhelming, but we should be overwhelmed with comfort and joy. Can you imagine having 100 trillion choices every time you need to make a decision? In addition to having to make the decision amongst 100 trillion choices, whichever one you select will turn out to be righteous and awesome! I can see that you’re smiling already!!! Well, we have that and more at the bending of our knees. All we have to do is ask and have faith that it will be done. I’ve had people ask me, “Why would God grant you anything that you want?” My response was because when we become in tune with God, we only want those things that He wants for us. Since we have faith that He only wants what’s best for us, when His answer is no, then we become content with that response, “so if you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him.” Matthew 7:11 NLT
When we operate from the standpoint of abundance then we do not fear that there isn't enough for equal distribution, rather everyone will have an opportunity and perhaps have leftovers as well. Since we are having a discussion with regard to abundance, please keep in mind the story in the book of John 6:1-14 when Jesus fed about five thousand men with the little boy’s five loaves and two fish.
How do we consistently activate our faith? I have prepared 10 tips to assist you with your faith walk.
Tip #2: Set aside family time and stick to it. It's ironic how we think that we have all of this time. The reality is we all come with expiration dates. However, unlike milk and other perishables, our expiration dates are not stamped anywhere. Every day we are really in existence by God's grace. In fact, every second, we are here by His grace. I am of the mindset that we expedite our expiration when we fail to appreciate those who love and nurture us by spending time with family. Family is not necessarily the traditional mother, father, sister, brother. For some it might consist of uncle, aunt, close family friend who raised you, adoptive parent, or a grandparent, “but if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel." 1 Timothy 5:8 KJV
