Faithful Worship

Faith pleases the Father because God is faithful. When He sees faith, it reminds Him of Himself. He sees that it is good because God is good; all the time, and every time, God is good. When you declare that God is faithful you are saying that God can be trusted, that what He says, He will do, because first He says it, then He does it, every time. God works according to His word, without fail. He is faithful.

But what exactly is faith? Where does it come from? What does it mean to be full of faith and what kind of faith do you want to be full of? Hebrews 11:1 says, “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen.” This verse teaches that faith is a substance. The Greek word translated “substance” is hoopo-staice. It is made up of two Greek words, hoopo, which means “under,” and staice, which means “to stand,” or “solid structure.” Faith is a foundation upon which life rests and is built. It is the unseen strength of life, like the unseen foundation and inner structure of a building, when it rests upon the word of God.

But faith does not have strength in and of itself. Faith in a lie rather than the truth is the exact opposite of strength. It can be the source of all kinds of evil when it becomes the foundation for what God has not said. But when it connects with what God has said, and rests upon His word, God goes to work and builds upon it. The strength of faith comes from the truth of God’s word.

God’s word is in invitation to know Him. God reveals Himself in His word. He reveals what He desires to do. His works declare who He is. Since God is faithful, His word carries the seed of His faith in it. His faith is an invitation for His activity. This is what God searches for, an invitation to go to work upon His word!

As you hear God’s word and receive it as the truth, God’s faith in His word becomes the eternal structure and strength in your life. God builds upon His Solid Rock, the Life that is well pleasing to Him, the Life that He has already chosen, the Life of the Lord Jesus Christ. As God builds more and more of Himself in you and with you, more and more of His Life is seen and known through you and as you, before Him and the watching world around you. This pleases God. This is what it means to be full of faith. This is what it means to worship the Father in spirit and truth.

Today, hear God's word by listening to it, reading it, studying it, memorizing it, meditating on it, and then watch God do it!