Journey by Faith

By Patricia Davis

Journey by Faith tells the story of what happens in a life filled with faith. Every believer is given a measure of faith, but there is a gift of faith dispensed from the Holy Spirit that is poured into chosen believers' lives that goes beyond simple understanding and hopes. Their faith becomes miracles and blessings.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
• Release date: Jul 3, 2020
• ISBN: 9781646706037

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Journey by Faith

Patricia Davis

ISBN 978-1-64670-602-0 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-64670-603-7 (Digital)

Copyright © 2020 Patricia Davis

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Table of Contents

Introduction

The Life and Faith of the Believers

Faith with the Father

In Heaven by Faith

Miracles and Blessings by Faith

Finance by Faith

I Am Not My Own

My Kind of Love

PHOTO BY VINCENT E. DOHMEN

STUDENT FROM KOLIN, GERMANY

IN OUR TRAVEL THROUGH FIVE STATES FROM TULSA, OKLAHOMA TO SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA

NOVEMBER 2016

Introduction

Without faith, it is impossible to please God!

During this time of writing this book, my son died. Was this death devastation trying of my faith in Father God? There are not enough words of praise and words to describe the trust and faith to believe Father God for the resurrection of my son. I discuss this miraculous event in the chapter called Miracles and Blessings by Faith.

It is when you know God that you can walk in faith (full confidence and talk in faith), speak things into existence (see in faith and imagine all that I hope), and follow the words of Father God (in Him I put my full trust).

My number one priority in life is to please God, and I have no greater joy than spending time in the Lord’s presence in conversation with my Father God as my Best Friend. I totally believe my Father God through His gift of faith. I expect nothing less than a miracle when I come to Father God in prayer and conversation.

Life is a journey with various roads to travel, and I am overjoyed that I found the right road to God. He led me in the path of righteousness for His name’s sake. God will position you in life according to your faith, trust, and obedience to Him.

I believe God has a purpose for every person’s life, and for that purpose, God equips believers for their journey of life with gifts from the Holy Spirit to accomplish their purpose in accordance with the fulfillment of the kingdom of God. It is important for you to know who you are as an individual and your family’s lineage and your position in life with God, as is read in Romans 12:3: According as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith.

There are some of us that have more than a measure of faith. We have the gift of faith. In 1 Corinthians 12:4, the Word says, Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. First Corinthians 12:9 says, "To another faith [my emphasis] by the same Spirit. For the achievement of our purpose, 2 Corinthians 5:7 reads, For we walk by faith, not by sight. The gift of faith that the Father has given me allows me to take Him at His word with all belief and trust that God will fulfill His word. As I remember, God spoke the entire world into existence. God said, Let there be, and it was just as He spoke.

There is much work to be done on earth in sharing the good news of Jesus Christ as to the expectation of people in order to inherit eternal life (life of love and comfort) with God. God is looking to this generation and the next generation of believers/disciples to carry out, put in action His word on the confidence of hearing from God, and reading His Word. Dressed in the full armor of God, we will conquer fighting the good fight of faith.

Faith in Action

Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do (act) that is not seen that God reveals in His word. This type of faith is what the ancients, the patriarchs, disciples, and apostles were commended for their faith.

Hebrews 11–12 is what I refer to as the roll call of faith. In these chapters, the writer distinguished the patriarchs of renowned faith in how they chose to believe God, no matter the circumstances or setting, precedence, or surrounding events that had never happened before such as Noah and the flood. (It had never rain before the flood, and no water fell from the sky. There were no arks, and therefore, no designs or books and schools on ark building.) Noah believed God for the instructions, the measurements, the building materials, the occupants for the ark, and, most of all, preaching constantly the words of God to a disobedient generation of people who refused to believe Noah. Who could believe it’s going to rain when it had never rain before? And nobody listened to Noah’s preaching about the ark as no one had ever seen an ark before. It may have been the same message, but it was the right message to save the people from the tragedy that was about to take place. God tell generations to come, saying, He that has an ear let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church [God’s people]. By faith, believe God!

By faith, Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God, (Hebrews 11:5). Enoch did not die and go to heaven, but he walked from earth into heaven with Almighty God. Enoch is very important to me in that his relationship with God was so close that his whole desire in life was to be with God, to please God, and to talk and walk with God daily. Instead of God meeting Enoch on earth for their daily conversation, God decided to walk Enoch, His faithful friend, straight into heaven. Can you imagine the conversations between God and a human? Finally, God had the perfect relationship with humankind as He desired when He first created Adam. What could God and Enoch be talking about? Does God still have daily conversations with humans of this present generation on earth? We will discuss the most intriguing conversations that God has with mankind in this book, Journey by Faith, later in another chapter.

The characteristics of Enoch are the same attributes found in those solely devoted to God. Their journey in life is by faith and God requires daily conversation and commitment.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen (Heb. 11:1). I have complete confidence and trust in God for His will in my life where my heart desires are in line with the will of God, and therefore, my desires become granted petitions in prayers and mostly acts of miracles.

Hebrews 11:6 says, "But without faith it is impossible to please Him [God; my emphasis]: for he or she that come to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him."

In Journey by Faith, each chapter reveals the power of faith. Our journey through this book will display the miraculous power of faith and how rewards are given through unwavering, life-changing, without-doubting type of faith. The seven chapters include the following:

The Life and Faith of the Believers—We learn how Believers stand firm in the Faith without wavering and as we await the return of Jesus to rapture His people.

Faith with the Father—We learn and confirm the important relationship and fellowship of communicating with Father God daily as we sense and experience the provisions through the Father and your earthly father.

In heaven by Faith—Who goes to heaven? What are some of the events that happen in heaven?

Miracles and Blessings by Faith—We learn to recognize agents of heaven and the supernatural healings and blessings brought to earth by faith.

Finance by Faith—We identify God’s riches in glory.

I Am Not My Own—We acknowledge the position and our responsibilities in the faith.

My Kind of Love—God is Love! What kind of love do you display?

The seven (seven is the number of completion) chapters represents the lineage of favor and blessings for being faithful to God and understanding the importance of being obedient to God and what it means to follow God’s instructions.

The Life and Faith of the Believers

How do believers stand firm in the faith without wavering as we await the return of Jesus to rapture His people?

Back to the beginning of life, during Adam and Eve’s time, God taught Adam and Adam shared God’s teaching with Eve. God taught Adam about how he was created with a uniqueness of choice to do right or wrong, to obey or disobey God, and to believe or disbelieve God. During this Adam and Eve’s time, mankind had a one-on-one relationship with God the Creator and divine inspiration for humanity. Adam knew his position with God as one made in the image of God and in direct communication with God concerning all creations, their existence, and the plans for their and our future.

Adam and Eve disobeyed God and therefore lost their position with God, their disobedience was the first sin of mankind, and sin separates God from mankind. Adam and Eve did not realize their disobedience would affect all mankind for all generations to come. Just as Adam and Eve, we have a choice to sin or not sin, to obey or disobey God.

We read of God’s creation of life, its order, and its organizing in Genesis 2:1–25:

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. (KJV; my emphases]

God had set the order for mankind to live in the Garden of Eden, a paradise of peace with harmony and God had planned relationships of fellowship between Him and humankind. God gave mankind a choice of obedience where mankind could live the plan of God in peace and harmony or a choice of disobedience that would separate mankind from God called sin.

Adam lost his position with God once he had sin and found himself naked and ashamed. Satan will use any form of creature to separate humans from God. The devil is a trickster; and still today Satan comes to steal, kill, and destroy good relationships. God knew that once Adam and Eve ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, their eyes would be opened to sin. Therefore, God gave instructions not to touch the fruit nor eat of the tree.

Since disobedience entered their lives, punishment was inevitable. God commanded the cherubs, powerful archangels probably on the same hierarchy as the archangel Michael, to stand in the midst of the Garden of Eden and barred every entry Adam and Eve attempted toward the tree of life. To eat of the tree of life would ensure a permanent condition of sin and torment for humankind. God did not want humankind to remain in the state of sin throughout all eternity. Sin separates humankind from fellowship with God, and in God’s plan, He desires a relationship with you of faith and trust.

Just imagine losing your position with Father God because you did not have enough faith to tell the devil no. Also, having to leave your home in paradise to never see or have the safety and comfort or eat without hard work tilling the soil in order to grow food must have crushed Adam and Eve. As much as God loved Adam and Eve, they could never go back into the paradise that Father God created for them because of sin and their lack of faith and trust. Man, woman, and serpent received their life sentences of punishment for all generations to come.

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