By Faith we understand (part 1): live your destiny
"By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. " (Hebrews 11:3) Read the above once again. You will notice that it says: ‘By faith we understand..’ It does not say: ‘we understand first, then we have faith…’ Faith comes before understanding. We have faith first, then we understand. The first words of Hebrews 11:3 are the crucial order that determines our success in living the destiny that God has planned for us. Many people struggle to believe the Scripture and to obey God’s personal instructions in their lives because they want to understand first and believe later. When God told Adam not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil (ref: Genesis 2:16-17), Adam should have believed by faith without seeking to understand the result of eating the fruit. Unfortunately, the serpent lured him and his wife into a false understanding of what the consumption of the fruit would do (ref. Genesis ...