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“Faith is like rotisserie chicken”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Faith is one of my favorite subjects.\u00a0 I have spent a lot of time studying and considering the subject and am getting more and more clear about how faith operates.<\/p>\n

Every human being has faith.\u00a0 Every time you sit in a chair you have faith that it will hold you up.\u00a0 Every time you get in your car, you have faith that you will reach your destination.\u00a0 You have faith that you will receive a paycheck or direct deposit on payday.\u00a0 You exercise faith when you get into an airplane and expect it to take off and land safely.\u00a0 This kind of faith is based on trust.\u00a0 That\u2019s why you don\u2019t worry about whether any of the things I mentioned will work.\u00a0 You just trust that they will based on previous experiences.<\/p>\n

Everyone has a certain level of faith in God\u2019s creation.\u00a0 You know that the sun will come up in the morning and set at night.\u00a0 You know that if you let go of a glass it will fall to the floor because there are laws in place that make it so, and you have learned to trust those laws.<\/p>\n

Why is it then that we have a faith issue when it comes to the spiritual realm?\u00a0 The reason is that spiritual things require a different kind of faith.\u00a0 It is not a natural faith based upon logic and reason.\u00a0 God\u2019s kind of faith deals in the invisible.\u00a0 It\u2019s seeing something that is not seen by others in the natural.\u00a0 Faith sees things in the spirit before they are seen with our physical eyes.\u00a0 God\u2019s kind of faith is based solely on His Word.\u00a0 Faith takes God at His Word and needs no other proof.\u00a0 According to Hebrews 11:1, faith IS the evidence of things hoped for and the proof of things unseen.\u00a0 To a true believer, faith is all the evidence and proof he or she needs to have confidence that what God says already is.\u00a0 It\u2019s just a matter of time before it manifests.<\/p>\n

Faith sees the unseen before it is seen!\u00a0 Let\u2019s take the promise of healing as an example.\u00a0 The Bible says that \u201cBy His [Jesus\u2019] stripes we HAVE BEEN healed.\u201d (1 Peter 1:24; Isa. 53:5) \u00a0Let\u2019s say someone is sick and the doctor proclaims that the sickness is terminal. Most people take the doctor at his word since he or she is the \u201cauthority\u201d in this matter.\u00a0 A true believer\u2019s response is \u201cNO, I have been healed by Jesus\u2019 wounds.\u201d\u00a0 Yet, the symptoms persist and now what do you do?\u00a0 Do you succumb to the doctor\u2019s report and the symptoms being experienced, or do you stand on God\u2019s Word?\u00a0 Do you trust what God says or what the doctor and the symptoms say?<\/p>\n

This is not an easy situation.\u00a0 Especially since we have been trained to trust doctors and symptoms which involve our five natural senses.\u00a0 So, what do we do?\u00a0 Let me use a woman in the Bible as an example.\u00a0 Her story can be found in Mark 5:24-34.\u00a0 The woman was suffering from hemorrhaging for 12 years.\u00a0 She spent all she had on doctors and only got worse.\u00a0 She must of heard about Jesus and all the healings He performed.\u00a0 Her hearing caused something to rise up in her.\u00a0 That something was faith.\u00a0 Romans 10:17 says that \u201cfaith comes by hearing\u2026.\u201d\u00a0 Her faith must have come from the testimonies of Jesus\u2019 acts of healing.\u00a0 When she heard that Jesus was near, she came to Him.\u00a0 Then she said something extremely important, so read carefully.\u00a0 She said to herself, \u201cIf I just touch the fringe of His robe I will<\/em> be made well.\u201d \u00a0Do you get it?\u00a0 She saw herself healed before she actually received her healing!\u00a0 She pictured her healing and then acted upon that inward picture.\u00a0 Her confidence was based upon what she heard.<\/p>\n

After her hemorrhaging ceased and her healing complete, she got Jesus\u2019 attention.\u00a0 What He said to her is amazing.\u00a0 Jesus said, \u201cYour faith has made you well.\u00a0 Go in peace and be free from your affliction.\u201d\u00a0 How did she get healed?\u00a0 She heard and had faith to act on what she heard and according to Jesus, her faith made her whole.\u00a0 The woman\u2019s faith was all the evidence she needed to persuade her heart to take action.\u00a0 In a nutshell, that\u2019s all faith is.\u00a0 Faith is a fully persuaded heart (Romans 4:19-21).<\/p>\n

So, why did I name this post \u201cFaith is like a Rotisserie Chicken\u201d?\u00a0 Have you ever gone to the grocery store and seen those chickens turning and turning over those burners?\u00a0 \u00a0As they turn they bake until they are done.\u00a0 That\u2019s how faith works.\u00a0 You must come to the Word (heat) and meditate on it (turning and turning) until your faith matures, and BAM!\u00a0 What you are meditating on manifests!\u00a0 It comes from the invisible to the visible.<\/p>\n

Meditation is pondering, considering, musing, and imagining that what you are hearing is yours.\u00a0 As you meditate, your heart is being fully persuaded.\u00a0 Once the heart is persuaded, it\u2019s a done deal.\u00a0 If it\u2019s healing you are meditating on, once the heart is fully persuaded that what God promised is true, you will have your healing.\u00a0 The same with financial blessing or any of the other promises of God.\u00a0 You don\u2019t need to understand how this works, you just have to know that it does.\u00a0 It\u2019s like gravity; it\u2019s a law.\u00a0 It is the law of faith.<\/p>\n

There is a portion in the Bible that illustrates this perfectly.\u00a0 In Mark 4:24-29, Jesus give a parable of what the Kingdom of God is like.\u00a0 It\u2019s like a man who sows seed in the ground.\u00a0 He sleeps and rises night and day and the seed he sowed grows.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t know how it produces a crop all by itself.<\/em>\u00a0 First comes the blade, then the head (bud), then the ripe grain in the head.\u00a0 That what faith looks like.\u00a0 We meditate on a word (seed) and we sleep and rise until<\/em>, before you know it, the crop is ready to harvest.<\/p>\n

Faith requires patience.\u00a0 In the illustration above, patience is demonstrated.\u00a0 The farmer sows the seed, but it doesn\u2019t manifest right away.\u00a0 It takes time.\u00a0 However, the farmer doesn\u2019t worry, doubt, or fear because he trusts the process.\u00a0 We too must trust the process of faith.<\/p>\n

Faith is an amazing thing, but few experience true Biblical faith.\u00a0 This is why there are so many sick and broke people in the church at large.\u00a0 They don\u2019t exercise their faith.\u00a0 The Bible stays on their shelves.\u00a0 How can you meditate on something you never open and read out loud?\u00a0 Then, when an emergency comes, they run to the Pastor or Facebook and ask for prayers.\u00a0 Faith is a process and if you are not in the process, your emergency may turn into a disaster that will require a miracle.\u00a0 I believe in miracles, but it\u2019s much better to live by faith.\u00a0 It\u2019s more peaceful and restful.\u00a0 It\u2019s the way God wants us to live.\u00a0 Miracles are for the unbelievers.\u00a0 A life of faith in God\u2019s Word is for the believers.<\/p>\n

So, now you know how faith is like a rotisserie chicken.\u00a0 I hope this helps you understand the process of faith and compels you to pursue a life of faith in God\u2019s Word. I pray that you will take the time to build yourselves up in your most holy faith.<\/p>\n

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Faith is an amazing thing, but few experience true Biblical faith. This is why there are so many sick and broke people in the church at large. They don\u2019t exercise their faith. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[487,314,482,486,315,484,485,483,206],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}