November 10th, 2025
By: Kara Wallis
I recently was doing a devotion with a friend on the subject of faith and it was so good I wanted to share it. I hope it encourages and inspires you like it did me. Sometimes it’s just the small reminders in everyday life that make a huge difference. Sometimes those little God winks leave a huge impact.
The definition of faith is having deep trust and confidence in God and his promises, which involves both believing in God’s existence and truths, and committing one’s life to Him. So we confidently trust God in a way that moves beyond just intellectual belief to us actively relying on God’s promises. Our faith shapes how we view our circumstances and leads us to live differently in response to God’s faithfulness. Hebrews 11:1 says,”Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”
I don’t know about you guys, but in my life I’ve never seen this defined more accurately than when I’ve been challenged to exercise it. When problems come it’s not operating in mere wishful thinking, it’s a confident trust based on who God has revealed himself to be!
With my personality I love to know the whole plan, what are we doing, where are we going, who’s going with us, but with faith we don’t always get to know ahead of time. An example of this is Abraham, he had to take the next step without knowing or seeing the entire journey. When God called him to leave everything, Abraham went out not knowing where he was going(Hebrews 11:8). He didn’t have to understand the plan, because he put his faith in the character of the One who made the promise. It says in Romans 10:17, ”So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.”
This verse shows us that faith is not something we can manufacture through just our sheer willpower, but instead faith grows as we expose ourselves to God’s truth and promises. We have to align ourselves with God’s Word. “So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.”
James 2:17 challenges our inclination to separate faith from action. When we operate in true faith it will always bring about movement. It will change how we live, make decisions, and how we respond and react to challenges that we are faced with. For Abraham faith wasn’t just a mental agreement with God it was demonstrated in his willingness to pack up his entire life and start walking, and the same goes for us.
2 Corinthians 5:7, ”For we walk by faith, not by sight.” Paul reminds us that in the daily choices to choose faith it becomes the lens through which we view and respond to life. Ephesians 2:8 says, “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God”.
When with the uncertainty of life, we can remember He is both the object and originator of our faith. The smallest steps we take are empowered by His grace. One of my favorite things out of the devotion was this sentence right here: As we encounter situations that test our faith, let’s remember that God isn’t asking us to conjure up perfect confidence, instead He invites us to know Him better, trust his character, and simply take the next step in following him. Let us have a hunger and passion to get to know God better and each day spend time with Him and allow Him to reveal His true character to us.
I recently was doing a devotion with a friend on the subject of faith and it was so good I wanted to share it. I hope it encourages and inspires you like it did me. Sometimes it’s just the small reminders in everyday life that make a huge difference. Sometimes those little God winks leave a huge impact.
The definition of faith is having deep trust and confidence in God and his promises, which involves both believing in God’s existence and truths, and committing one’s life to Him. So we confidently trust God in a way that moves beyond just intellectual belief to us actively relying on God’s promises. Our faith shapes how we view our circumstances and leads us to live differently in response to God’s faithfulness. Hebrews 11:1 says,”Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”
I don’t know about you guys, but in my life I’ve never seen this defined more accurately than when I’ve been challenged to exercise it. When problems come it’s not operating in mere wishful thinking, it’s a confident trust based on who God has revealed himself to be!
With my personality I love to know the whole plan, what are we doing, where are we going, who’s going with us, but with faith we don’t always get to know ahead of time. An example of this is Abraham, he had to take the next step without knowing or seeing the entire journey. When God called him to leave everything, Abraham went out not knowing where he was going(Hebrews 11:8). He didn’t have to understand the plan, because he put his faith in the character of the One who made the promise. It says in Romans 10:17, ”So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.”
This verse shows us that faith is not something we can manufacture through just our sheer willpower, but instead faith grows as we expose ourselves to God’s truth and promises. We have to align ourselves with God’s Word. “So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.”
James 2:17 challenges our inclination to separate faith from action. When we operate in true faith it will always bring about movement. It will change how we live, make decisions, and how we respond and react to challenges that we are faced with. For Abraham faith wasn’t just a mental agreement with God it was demonstrated in his willingness to pack up his entire life and start walking, and the same goes for us.
2 Corinthians 5:7, ”For we walk by faith, not by sight.” Paul reminds us that in the daily choices to choose faith it becomes the lens through which we view and respond to life. Ephesians 2:8 says, “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God”.
When with the uncertainty of life, we can remember He is both the object and originator of our faith. The smallest steps we take are empowered by His grace. One of my favorite things out of the devotion was this sentence right here: As we encounter situations that test our faith, let’s remember that God isn’t asking us to conjure up perfect confidence, instead He invites us to know Him better, trust his character, and simply take the next step in following him. Let us have a hunger and passion to get to know God better and each day spend time with Him and allow Him to reveal His true character to us.
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