Faith the Genuine Engine Of Growth

Objective
(1) Understand that we all have faith in something.
(2) That nothing is possible without faith.
(3) That as human that our action and in action is governed by words.
(4) The things we listen to and choose to believe determine our action.
(5) We should therefore direct our energy on things that benefit or bring us happiness in the long run
(6) We should understand that both fear and faith are fuelled by words.
(7) Both fears and faith involve risk.

Faith is the proof of things we do not see and the conviction of their reality. Faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses. The reality of our world is that we are governed, or our world is powered by dreams, ideas, vision and revelation, which are intangible things. Unfortunately we live in a physical world. By physical we mean those things our hands can touch, our noses can smell, our ears can hear, our eyes can see and our bodies can feel. In science one of the law of matter states that matter can neither be created nor destroyed, but can be transformed from one form to another. This is basically exemplified with water. At normal temperature it is liquid (water), if the temperature comes down to about 0oC it becomes ice, when boiled to about 100oC in turns into vapour. In the vapour form it seems as if it has been destroyed, the fact is that it has actually changed form to gas (vapor). This clearly depicts the phase between ideas, dreams, visons and their manifestation in the physical form.
Analytically, lets consider a jobless graduate probably she has been jobless for a few years. So she needs to get a job badly. She has to be convinced in her mind that she can get a job first, in order for there to be the physical manifestation. She needs to be assured not from outside but from inside, what she needs is the education of her mind. She needs to find the actual thing she needs to engage in to get his/her self gainfully employed. All the times what she needed to do, or where she could have gone to get the job has already be revealed to her. But the idea may not appeal to her,probably looks ordinary or her beliefs had held in bondage; it is not all gold that glitters.

Using my own story I had to become “desperate” to get out of joblessness. The answer 1 found in a book, Rich dad, poor dad by Robert Kiyosaki. Because I was convinced in mind it was time to get a job. I could use the knowledge I got from the book because believed what the book said. The idea or the strategy presented by the book is intangible, I could choose to discard it. I actually shared it with a friend who told me it is not practicable. But because it was imparted into my mind I know it was the answer. I will not share the idea in this write up, because someone else may try it and may not get my kind of result, faith is personal. The company that I worked for had always been in my neighbourhood but I never visited them until this revelation birth faith on my inside. So I became bold enough to write them because I discovered what to tell them. Faith is knowledge, or put in a different form. Faith is synonymous to knowledge. You can call faith truth. The life manual said it comes by hearing, and he said how can they hear unless they are taught. What you don’t understand or know cannot propel you to action. Or better placed faith is understanding of the fact or the truth, knowing what works without physically seeing it. But you must be able to picture it in your mind for you to see it physically, it has nothing to do with religion. It is one of the basic ingredients of life, a sine-qua-non, without which you will not experience growth. It is either your mind is governed by fear or it is dominated by faith, your mind cannot be neutral. The reason why people don’t feel happy about the idea of going to work, is because they can’t figure out how the work can help with fulfilling their dreams or vision. They can’t equate the work to what they really want out of life. So everybody has faith, it means everybody knows something. And what you know determines the kind of result you get.

While I was still an undergraduate, some of my friends in school reported me to my mother that I was visiting the beer parlour regularly. So my mother confronted me with this issue expecting that I answered yes or no, but I shocked her. And asked her a question in return, I inquired from her who she wanted to believe, her son or the friends that came to report me. That if she had made up her mind to believe the report, no matter what I told her it will be a waste of time. That if she chose to belief me that whatever I told her she would believe. She was furious that I was playing around words and reported me to her very close friend. I told her the same thing. This is because there is no way she could proof what they told her or what I would have told her. The day she caught me with beer she needed no more proof. Most of the time in life, unless those that has been proved, there are few facts. We live our lives based on what our mind has been conditioned to belief. We depend, on what we hear, or read to live. No wonder the life manual, said the just shall live by faith.

This will lead me to the life manual; the Christian has equaled faith to (capital) money, which is not totally wrong. What is wrong about it is that they carry on as if there is only one kind of money or faith. We have different types of money: Naira, Dollars, Pounds, so also is faith; the issue is that what the life manual centred its teaching on is the God kind of faith or what you can term faith in God's word and ability. And why this is quite a mystery is that you can’t see God, which is the reason many represent their Gods with images. This mystery I had solved in another article or seminar, so living your life or being propelled into action based on what God said is really a problem to some folks. But without faith nothing happens, and your faith must be based on something or somebody, words or ideology. For example, an atheist demonstrates faith in an ideology.

Definitely we have been living our life’s based on what people or other human like us said. Now, someone trained as a doctor carried out some test on you based on some devices created by men and concluded that you have a terminal disease. And someone on hearing that may decide to commit suicide. This is because we have trust in the man called, doctor, his knowledge and his devices. I am not preaching doubt in medicine. But we should realize that human tell lies. It is natural for human being to tell a lie when you meet one that says the truth, celebrate him. From the character of God described in the life manual he is the only entity that has no business lying to man because he is greater than man. Imagine IBM and Bill Gates telling a lie to a computer, what they created. IBM and Bill Gates do not owe the computer any obligation, because they are its creator. God does not loose a thing by telling you the truth, why will he tell you that trust in his words can heal your disease if when he has told you otherwise it still does not change anything about the fact that he is God.

Faith is the engine of growth. Be careful the information you live your life by, because life starts and end in the mind. It took men of faith in possibilities to create the cars, phone, and all the wonders of our world. So what do you have faith in, what is that thing that your mind is telling you is possible. Remember ideas are beyond our five senses and are intangible. You need faith in them to bring then to manifestation. When it is a fact believe man, when there is no proofs believe God. Fact is anything that has been proved to be true, correct and will not change in spite of time or circumstances. Somebody said the earth was flat and limited a few, and Colombus dared and travelled round the earth, the Wright brothers consolidated his effort and manufactured the airplane. Since then it has become a fact that the earth is a round mass, anything that is spherical is a success, the balls are round and have made more millionaires than broken legs. Attached to your problem is the solution so look closely and carefully and you will soon be celebrated.