Dear friends and family,
Everyone has faith in something. Even deciding that there is nothing to believe in requires faith. What you believe determines where your faith is formed. Our experiences, knowledge, relationships, and understanding all help shape what we believe—but biblical faith goes beyond mental agreement. Faith requires a decision.
The Hebrew word translated “believe” is aman, carrying the idea of something that supports, steadies, or holds you up. That gives us a powerful picture of faith: what you believe becomes the support system of your life.
In Exodus 17, when Moses became tired, Aaron and Hur literally supported his hands so they could remain raised. Scripture uses the related Hebrew word emunah to describe that steadiness. In the same way, God is our Source, but He often allows His strength, encouragement, and provision to flow through the people He places around us.
Abraham gives us one of Scripture’s greatest pictures of believing.
Genesis 15:6 says:
“Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness.”
Abraham did more than mentally acknowledge God’s promise. He committed himself to it. Hebrews tells us that by faith Abraham obeyed. His believing produced movement.
Faith is the root that produces the fruit of obedience.
That faith was eventually tested when Abraham was asked to offer Isaac. Everything God had promised seemed to rest upon that son. Abraham had to decide whether he would trust what his circumstances were telling him or trust what God had spoken. His faith moved beyond understanding into complete dependence upon the faithfulness of God.
There will be moments when believing God makes no sense to your natural mind.
The storm may be raging.
The promise may appear impossible.
The circumstances may argue against everything God has said.
But faith says, “God has spoken, and I will believe.”
Jesus repeatedly used the word amen—from the same Hebrew root—to communicate certainty, truth, and trustworthiness. Our faith is not built upon changing circumstances; it rests upon the unchanging character and promises of God.
To believe is to see the promises of God before they become visible.
To believe is to stand with certainty upon His Word.
To believe is to endure the storm because you know the One who made the promise.
Don’t allow circumstances to determine what you believe.
From my heart to yours,
Mike