RHAPSODY OF REALITIES DAILY DEVOTIONAL
SENSE KNOWLEDGE FAITH AND SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE FAITH .
Saturday, October 14th, 2017
Pastor Chris
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation (Romans 10:10).
There’s a difference between sense knowledge faith and spiritual knowledge faith. Sense knowledge faith is the faith that you’ve acquired through the senses; it’s the mother of modern inventions. Most of the institutions that we have today are the products of sense knowledge faith. In fact, you spent all your years in school building your faith on sense knowledge.
Sense knowledge faith is based on our observations, on what we can relate with using our senses of smell, sight, feeling, taste, and hearing. That’s why you hear people say, “If I can see it, I will believe it. If I don’t see it, I will never believe.” It’s because they’ve built their faith with their senses over the years. But that kind of faith is dependent on your physical body; your body houses your senses.
You’re however, not a body; you’re a spirit being. So, your senses can’t contact God. You don’t believe with your mind; you reason with your mind. Our opening verse says with the heart man believes, not with the mind. The heart is your spirit.
Being born again, God doesn’t expect you to run your life with sense knowledge faith. 2 Corinthians 5:7 says, _*“For we walk by faith, not by sight.”*_ Sight means sensory perception! Romans 8:13 tells us, _*“For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.”*_ The flesh refers to the senses; but you’re to live by faith in God’s Word.
God’s faith, spiritual faith, comes from hearing the Word of God. Romans 10:17 says, _*“So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”*_ When God’s Word comes to you, faith comes with it. The Word imparts faith to your spirit. That’s how come, for example, you’re able to believe that Jesus is the Son of God, without resorting to any scientific proof. You neither had to “feel” that He is, nor experience a visitation from an angel in the night, to know. The Word says He is, you heard it, and that spiritual knowledge imparted the faith to your spirit to receive it. Praise God!
PRAYER
Thank you Father for the wisdom and revelation I receive from your Word. My faith is active and it prevails, because it’s based on spiritual knowledge. I’m making progress and flourishing on every side as I grow in grace and in the knowledge of your Word, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
FURTHER STUDY: John 20:29 Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed [are] they that have not seen, and [yet] have believed.
Romans 8:1 [There is] therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
DAILY SCRIPTURE READING
1-Year Bible Reading Plan: 1 Thessalonians 4:1-18,
Isaiah 59-60
2-Year Bible Reading Plan: John 5:33-47,
1 Kings 21