The substance of things unseen is the substance that is invisible which predates all of creation, which made all things. All things God made are visible. He is not, none of His things are visible. All of God’s things are in Christ, and it is the Holy Spirit that introduces us to all things that are there.

Any faith that’s not attached to the invisible is not a faith of God’s substance. So we need to understand the proper protocol to communicate with the Living God. Just as every country and culture has a language that is specific to it, so too with The Kingdom of God. If we do not speak His language, God may not hear us.

Just as Isaiah said;

Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened,
That it cannot save;
Nor His ear heavy,
That it cannot hear.
² But your iniquities have separated you from your God;
And your sins have hidden His face from you,
So that He will not hear.

We can see here there is a proper way for us to relate to God. We need to understand what stands in the way of God hearing us and answering us.  James says, “you have not because you ask not and when you ask you do so to consume on your own lust”.

There are types of communication and protocols setup for different situations. The communication is more than just language. Fortunately for us, with God it is not that we need to call Him during hours, He is always available. It is not as though we need to learn a specific language, like Hebrew or Greek, for Him to hear us because at the Throne of God there are Representatives, “from every language Nation tribe and tongue.” Hebrew is not the preferred language, there simply isn’t one. Scripture says there are many languages and there are none without importance.

The Book of James says to, “ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.” God turns a deaf ear to your instability and floundering in your faith.

The book of Hebrews says, “for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.” This is a protocol of trust. It is not that we would need to reach a degree of perfection for God to hear us, but more clearly, we need to have dealt with the things that have been pointed out by the Holy Spirit for our words to have more validity. There is a great place of validity where the Father said, “ask anything in my name, up until now you’ve asked for nothing in my name but ask for anything in my name for your joy to be fulfilled.” The Lord does not want us to leave this place of joy and fulfillment.

If we understand our transition here on Earth as pilgrims, we would know that we are in constant growth. And when we ask anything in His name, in His name is everything important that is invisible. Even as Christ said “my joy I give you not like the worlds joy. So these things in his name, are broken down aspects and concepts of who He is that we may put them on to become more Godly. If we are performing according to the standard of where we are in our faith, God Honors that. And as God gives us things of Himself, we find our self in a position of Greater mastery. Creation serves the Creator just fine. And if it serves its’ Master and Maker, and we, too, are at peace with its’ Maker, then creation serves us as well. Not for the purpose of personal lusts, but more richly satisfying , our lot is in pleasant places, even as those around us are in turmoil.” We are in the world but not of the world. We accept the exchange and the gift given, tangible and expendable for eternally new. God’s Son took on our sin so that the Father would see the Son in each of us. The trade, cursing for blessing , is credited to us in that way only. Having peace with the Creator, creation works for us to accomplish our crossover. This is the real baptism from here to there. He took on our crown of thorns to give us His crown. The price is paid. “It’s the Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.” Not just a morsel, but the whole thing. Even as Christ told the disciples about His body broken for us, “take and eat! Eat of all it! Referring to the manna come down from heaven.

As you remember, on the sixth day God looked at what He had made and said “it is good, very good”. Meaning that nothing went beyond the boundaries God had given them during the 6 days. So as we are told not to despise the chastening of the Lord, for it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness, to be a partaker of His holiness, then we can understand the things He gives us is Himself and not manufactured things like the earth and all it’s works. In this way we are joint heirs with Christ. Everything Christ has is ours, we just need to grow in how to appropriate them.

Even as Christ said if you had faith of a mustard seed you can move a mountain? The mountain was Sinai with The Law and all its artifacts fulfilled, expired and shelved for our perusal of a bygone age in the history book. Gods history. His-story. It belongs to Him.

So if God wanting to display himself and answer a Prayer by feeding a multitude He could do so. But for the faithful, we do not pray for things he’s already given us in His word. As you said look at the birds of the air they do not fall to the ground without your father knowing about these things and how much more value are you today. And observe the Lilies of the Field how they are arrayed in glory for I tell you even Solomon was not arrayed in such Glory as these little ones and how much more value are they are you than they.

So if we understand these things we do not accost our Heavenly Father with vain repetitions as did the Israelites when He said “who has commanded you to approach my altar with vain repetitions. To trample my courts with your sacrifices. Because God can speak a thing and the thing exists the moment He speaks it.

 When we observe the promises given in Scripture, if we walk willy-nilly right through them and then go and ask for a thing he’s already promised us in his word, it is a great insult.

And again, do not be like the Pharisees that think that they will be heard for their much words. To be able to have faith and ask for the thing to receive the thing. To not constantly hammer on the door with the same prayer, the prayer of this kind honors God for this one has faith. Even as it was said of the man with the huge Army he said Lord just say the word and I know my son will be healed. And the Lord said of this man oh I have not seen such great no not an all of Israel. Why? Because this man did not need to continue to go to a synagogue or to a special place at a special time to beg and plead these things over and over with God. No no no that’s an old Covenant practice. It is when we believe and act as if to receive, by stopping thinking about it as being a settled matter.

So when we see the word that says “I will never leave you or forsake you”, why then would we asked where are you? Or when Shadrach Meshach and Abednego were threatened with the fury fire they did not say, oh God help us. They knew who they were in Christ and He was the forth one dancing in the fire with them. This is faith. Having a strong relationship with God they said “oh King we have no need to answer you in this matter for our God is (more than) able to Deliver Us from your fire, but even if not we will still not Bow Down and Worship your figure”. Showing that the faithful know what God will do whether it’s to save from the fire or not God will do the right thing and we can trust in what is done because of the outcome will be that we become more Godly. We gain mastery with this kind of faith.

So there are some other things we need to know about our posture before the heavenly father. If we are stuck at the cross confessing and such we are denying the provision from that Cross. In the book of Hebrews contrasting the new and old Covenant he said, “if those practices had worked then the worshipper once purged would have no more consciousness of sin.” Meaning because we are purified with the much greater sacrifice than bulls and calves being the sacrifice of the Son done once and for all.  So to continually talk to God about your personal sins is unfaith and unbelief. It is a misappropriation and a misunderstanding of the Living God who came in the flesh to deliver us from that fallen condition. God wants us to believe in his provision for us over sin to be able to stand up not so much in a physical way but in a spiritual way and see eye-to-eye with the Father. It is a servant who looks at the sandals and worships the figure but it is a son who sees eye to eye and depending on where he is at in growth, to become of equal stature. Isn’t that the purpose of the Gospel till we all come to a perfect man to a full stature of the son of God?

So then again from scripture “when you pray to God do not ask for what you shall eat or what you shall wear. For these are the things that the unbelievers seek after.” And if we may interject at this point, just as what you eat has nothing to do with your stature with the father what day you worship on has nothing to do with your stature with the father, so too what you wear has nothing to do with your stature with the father. Meaning not that we should not eat right not we should not dress right but that whatever we do eat, and however we do wear, we may be accepted. It is okay to have nice clothes and nice things, but more importantly, Christ became poor so that we may become rich but not in human terms. The richness played out is in great satisfaction of accomplishing the goals that are set out for us by our teacher the Holy Spirit. As we pass through these different phases in life by the leading in the unction of the spirit, we put on and become God like in greater and greater degrees.

So this is what it means when God says that he cannot hear you because your sins have separated, that is what this means we are asking for silly Provisions he’s already promised us but because we’re not walking in the voice of God by the spirit of God our prayers are roadblock

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For by this the elders obtained a good testimony with God because they trust in that which is intangible to the human senses.

Faith is a word we use to describe a belief system. The concept of Faith itself being a belief system is a series of thoughts in at its initial introduction is completely invisible. Faith is invisible however Faith affects everything.

Faith is a trust system. To have faith in a thing means you trust. Like a chair you have faith that the legs will hold up when you sit down on it. This is how faith is invisible but affects the physical through action. It is our belief system and the things that we trust to give us confidence to move forward for certain accomplishments in spite of the visibly knowable obstacles.

Faith is invisible. Not all faiths attach to the substance of the invisible. Faith being the substance of things hoped for are in fact a substance itself. For “by faith we understand that the worlds are made of things which are invisible”. Meaning that the invisible precedes and supersedes and intercedes the visible. And because the physical things were made by the word of God, when God spoke other things we should have the same confidence that they exist also, however they may exist in a form or a condition that is uncommon or unfamiliar and unnoticeable to our human perceptions. This speaks of the root of the essence of what faith is. Because everything of time and matter came forth from the spoken word of God for those who believe in God, more however they have faith in the Living God that the Living God trusts and works on behalf of those who seek him our faith then becomes more weighty and more important then the whole realm of time and matter itself. So that one ounce of Eternity far outweighs all the elements of time in matter from the first day to the last day. Why? Because the things that are made will be dissolved with a flaming Heat. So Faith being the evidence of things hoped for or the substance of things not seen being more substantial then the things carnally Noble.

So then, the term Faith correctly understood is synonymous with the invisible. So in reading and understanding scripture when the word faith is said, and visible things are inferred so therefore we can use the word invisible where the word “faith is, and faith is the substance of things hope for the evidence of things unseen”. In the importance of this, is that is God’s realm. God who is invisible Eternal in immortal the only wise God can be understood best, when we transfer our thinking into his element. The carnal mind is enmity with God in this way in that it always wants something to be physical in order to for it to be verifiable and that is why God calls those who seek signs, Wicked and adulterous generation.

The Kingdom Of God is at hand.