In facing the challenges of this life's experience, is what you are seeing before your mind's eye that which you believe to be true? Or are the principles you say you believe drawing the picture that you see? This is better described as lip service to God.
Faith paints a portrait.
What are you seeing? The demonstration of your faith is the portrait of what you are seeing in your mind's eye.
If you believe that the earth, the race of man and society's rules are more powerful than the maker of them all, then the picture you are seeing is desperately inadequate and is based in fear.
Fear draws a picture of circumstances that only involve this earthly ream which holds society and all it's man-made rules.
Has it even occurred to you that the picture drawn by fear is always negative? Fear portraits can show experiences such as embarrassment, rejection, humiliation, guilt and always, always, always shows an abandonment by the only Energy that can save you.
What are you seeing? Are you looking at your challenge from the eyes of God or are you looking at your challenge from your own eyes which usually shows a picture of your inability to change your circumstances.
When you have faith in God, you will see the picture before your eyes that shows God's solution to your challenge.
If you are trying to make yourself believe that God will help you, you are not there yet.
Step One.
At this stage, examine what it is that you are seeing.
What are the pictures that keep rolling around in your head? Be brutally honest with yourself because this shows what you truly believe.
This is what you have faith in.
Is your faith in God or in your circumstances? The next step.
You are faced with a choice here.
Look at it through God's eyes or continue to look at it through your own eyes.
It is your decision.
To look at it through God's eyes, you must let go of the self-defeating vision you currently see.
You must let go of it, mentally.
You can not continue to see through the negative lenses of the camera of your mind.
If you can let go of it mentally, you also let go of those tugging emotions that persist in keeping you captivated in a hold pattern that keeps your eyes focused continually on the fear portrait.
To change the picture you see, your open-mind receptivity kicks in where the Lord can assist you by passing new pertinent information to your mind that will solve your challenge.
Receiving this new information (the solution) automatically paints a new portrait in your mind's eye.
Meditating and contemplating on the new picture sends new vibrations out and within that draws to you the needed Energy which has been molded in just the right form to solve your dilemma.
The last step.
Now, you wait.
Wait on what? You wait on God.
When you are in harmony with God's frequency, in anything, there would be no purpose in trying to change perfection.
This is exactly where you want to be.
This is exactly the state of consciousness that allows God to work on your behalf.
Don't do anything else.
Just wait and see the salvation of the Lord working on your behalf.
In Isaiah 56:1, the Lord says his salvation will soon come and his righteousness will be revealed.
Sounds like a promise to me.
Do you have the patience to wait though? In James 1, the scriptures say to let patience be a perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, lacking nothing.
Honestly speaking, portrait-changing faith can not be summed up as something easy to do.
It is not easy but if you can do it, you become perfected in that challenge as the Father is within.
The Bible tells you to be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.
This process may take a few tries before you get it right but it is well worth the effort.
The fact remains that we all have faith.
The question that lingers is, "What do you see in your faith portrait?"