Hello and welcome to the Truth Seekers podcast a Truth seeker is someone who wants to know the truth

They search for what's true and they won't rest until they find it. I am a True seeker and if you are too then you've come to the right place where we will

search for truth each week in the stories of the Bible. Well hello and welcome

back to another episode of the truth seekers podcast. Before we begin today's episode I'd like to ask you a question.

Do you know what it means to have faith?

Can you say faith?

Faith is something you can say faith?

Faith is something you can have,

just like you can have courage and strength and joy,

you can have faith.

But what is it? Faith is trust. Faith is trusting in someone we cannot see. When we put our

faith in Jesus we are trusting that he is real and that he is God even though we cannot see him right now

The Bible says in Hebrew 11 verse 1 that faith is the substance of things hoped for but not have yet been seen or received.

We have faith that one day Jesus is returning for us.

We have faith that all of the things that we have learned

about in the Bible are true even though we weren't there to see them happen.

Faith is inseparable from trust. It's the confidence that God can and will do what he says in

his word. Having faith in God's word means I believe it is true. When we believe something to be true, we put our faith in it, we trust it, we rely on it.

Think of it this way.

I believe, or I have faith that a chair is designed to support me when I sit on it.

And I trust or demonstrate my faith or my belief by me actually choosing to sit on that chair.

When I put my faith in Jesus, I believe that he is who he says he is, and I demonstrate

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