what happened to faith????????

What is faith? If we look to the Bible for a definition we get that faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen, and it gives us assurance about the things we cannot see. What does that actually mean when you put it in real life terms? What does it mean for the church?
Well, faith is believing in things you can’t see, but it goes a step further to not just talking about believing but acting upon what you say you believe. It is like when you have a chair, you believe that it can hold you if you sit in it, right? You have the faith that if you let all your weight go into the chair that you won’t fall flat on the floor, because you trust the chair. So if you were asked to exercise your faith in the chair to hold you then you would just sit down without thinking twice. That is how faith works. It has to be put into action for it to really be considered faith, otherwise it is still just speculation.
With God the same is true-we must put into action what we say we believe. It is no longer enough to just talk about what we believe God can and will do it is time to start acting it out. If we believe that God can do anything then why do we always limit things based on our human limitations. If we think that God wants to do something then why do we not do it because it doesn’t seem logical or from our human perspective it can’t be done. We have taken the faith right out of the church.
The church doesn’t really believe that God is going to show up each time they gather together or they wouldn’t look so sad and depressed as they sing about how much they love Him. They wouldn’t be so somber as the pastor told of the great things that God can do and wants to do (but the people lack the faith for them to happen). They would be excited when they went to meet with their creator-they would come not knowing what to expect but knowing that whatever happened it would be awesome. The people would really pray and believe that things can and are changed through prayer and not just go through the motions (like we so often do). The people’s lives would reflect that they really believed that God was so awesome and powerful that nothing was impossible. The church would again turn the world upside down if they would just start to really have faith in God again. We have gotten so far that we are believing in our bank accounts, buildings, pastors, or denominations instead of the great power of the creator of the universe. The church has to be the one to start this revolution of really acting as if God really does exist and really is at work in the world today. It has been far too long since we have seen the hand of God at work in a big way! God is waiting for people to believe in him and call on His name so that He can do some awesome stuff. What are we waiting for?