1 Timothy 6:12 English Standard Version (ESV) Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

We left off yesterday declaring that faith is an active part of every aspect of Kingdom life. How do we activate this faith that we all possess in order for it to be exactly what God promises? In the verse above it says we have a good confession of faith in the presence of many witnesses. What does that look like?

Acts 20:20-21 English Standard Version

²⁰ how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house, ²¹ testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Here Paul lays out the foundational principles of activating faith. Repent of the life we lead without God and turn to Him for the help promised by placing our faith in the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Declare Jesus Christ to be our Lord before witnesses and He will activate this faith of promise.

2 Corinthians 3:18 English Standard Version (ESV) And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

The power to change lives comes from our Lord, who is spirit, who is God. Placing our faith in Christ Jesus is placing our faith in God. The formula for testing faith to prove God as described in Hebrews 11 is complete.

Tomorrow we will begin to explain the promises of God and how it all works together to prove God’s promises.

Hebrews 11:23-28 English Standard Version

²³ By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict. ²⁴ By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, ²⁵ choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. ²⁶ He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward. ²⁷ By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible. ²⁸ By faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.

We see here that Moses made choices that were not the path of least resistance. Reading Exodus tells us of the story but the issues of faith contained within are elusive because we cannot see into the hearts of others. These events happened so long ago that the telling of them is left to us only in the scrolls and translations of them. What makes them unique is that the same faith that wrote them is the same faith that translated them and is the same faith that reads them today. This elusive faith has not changed since its inception.

Even without Moses knowing God his actions led him to a place that many call a divine appointment. That was Moses and the burning bush. We who live by faith have all had our own burning bush moment. We might not understand how we came to that moment but each of us had to make a choice to place this faith in God.

If faith seems to be elusive to us it is because we have chosen to enact our own will in place of God’s will. Active faith aligns itself with God’s will.