Faith, Healing and Miracles | Healing Springs Church, Basingstoke

Mark 16:17-18
Hebrews 11:1-3
Philippians 2:9-11

What is the general definition of faith?

Faith is assurance and conviction
Faith is confidence based on past evidence
Faith is personal conviction about a reality
Faith is believing in what you know or accepting the knowledge (information) you have received as true
Faith is believing in what you have HEARD from a highly reliable source (i.e. high integrity information)
Most of the knowledge you have in the physical life has been acquired through HEARING and READING (i.e. education and socialisation)
Believing in the knowledge you have received/experienced is a choice!
It is absolutely possible to refuse to believe in what you know (you can resist or reject any knowledge that does not agree with your internal convictions)
It is absolutely possible to refuse to believe in evidence (even if compelling). Believing is a choice made in the heart!

What is the difference between natural faith and spiritual faith?

Natural faith is personal conviction about physical realities
Spiritual faith is personal conviction about spiritual realities
Note that the spiritual dimension is greater than the natural
Spiritual realities can affect and change natural realities!
Godly Faith is personal conviction about who God is, what God has said/done and what God is saying/doing
Godly Faith comes by HEARING the Word of God

What is a reality?

Anything that can be experienced, whether physically or spiritually
Anything that can be perceived using your physical or spiritual senses, without/with the aid of a physical or spiritual instrument
There are true realities based on truth and there are false realities based on ‘lies and deception’
In order to establish true realities, you need an unchangeable measuring standard called TRUTH!

What is truth?

All our human experiences are limited by our perception
Your perception is affected by the state of your mind and senses, the quality of your instruments and the belief system of people around you
Only the Most High God can define truth because He ‘changeth’ not!
Malachi 3:6, Hebrews 13:8
Only the Word of God remains unchangeable (Pluto was a planet!)
Truth is the Word of God (i.e. what God has said/done and what God is saying/doing)

What is blind faith?

Blind faith is believing in what you don’t know
Blind faith is believing without evidence. Note that evidence can be physical or spiritual, present or past)
You can believe in what you can’t see (you have 7 sense organs: eye, ears, nose, tongue, skin, mind and spirit)
You cannot truly believe in what you don’t know. You can only believe in the information you have received from any of your 7 sense organs
Blind faith (believing in what you don’t know) is presumption or speculation. Blind faith is hope, not faith!
Believing in God is not ‘blind faith’. The reality of God has been experienced in the hearts, minds and bodies of humans (and properly recorded/documented) for over 6,000 years
The fact that you have not experienced something doesn’t negate its reality. You may just not have the required sense or instrument (information) needed to perceive it.
If you close your eyes, you cannot perceive sight. If you close your heart, you cannot perceive God!

What is the relationship between faith and knowledge?

You cannot truly believe in what you don’t know
Knowledge is either physical or spiritual
Knowledge is acquired through information
When you are convinced about any type of knowledge, you start believing in it
To have faith in God, you need to know God
You know God by receiving true and sufficient information about Him
You know God through the Word of God (the recorded evidence of what God has said/done and what God is saying/doing)
When you know the Word of God and believe it, your faith has come
2 Peter 1:2-4, Romans 10:17

What ingredients do you need to produce miracles?

How can you strengthen your faith?

How can you release your faith?