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What’s your favorite thing to cook?

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“What is it?” What is life? What is it all about? The answers are in the living bread. Eat the bread of direct revelation from the living God that comes to your heart every single day! (John 6:48-51) There is plenty for everyone. Whosoever will let him come and partake. (Revelation 22:17)

What is the leaf that can live in and grow in a human heart? “Belief.” Faith can not only grow in your heart. If it’s carefully and continually cultivated it will flourish there.

Believing in Jesus is much more powerful than mere mental assent to religious doctrines. It goes far beyond acknowledging the things that Jesus said and did. Faith is so much more than being intellectually persuaded by the case for Christ.

The kind of belief that the Bible is referring to in John 3:16 isn’t based on information in the head. It’s built on the rock of direct revelation from God (Matthew 16:17-18) that makes His word burn the human heart. (Luke 24;32)) True belief goes far beyond what physical eyes and ears can see and hear. It is supernaturally revealed to the eyes and ears of the heart. (1 Corinthians 2:8-10)

Faith depends and relies on the existence of God (Hebrews 11:6) not on mere human understanding or self-effort. (Zechariah 4:6) True belief trusts that God will bless those who diligently seek His face. (2 Chronicles 7:14)

Belief can’t be taught classroom style, but it can be shared and demonstrated. Belief becomes contagious when people humbly and tenderly open their heart to testify (Revelation 12:11) and allow others to see and hear the reality of the supernatural faith in God that is living and working deep inside of them. (Philippians 2:13)

If you need to fly somewhere and think that a plane can take you there, if you really believe you will get on board and surrender your all to the pilot and the plane. True belief is nothing less than surrendering your all to the risen Jesus and relying on His presence (Colossians 1:27) to lead you and direct you throughout each day. (Romans 8:14)

The Bible indicates that Jesus wants His followers to be disciples who demonstrate true faith by the way they live, (John 8:31) not religious spectators. He wants them to be God’s family, (1 John 3:1-2) not a passive audience. He wants them to teach one another, (Colossians 3:16) to encourage one another, (1 Thessalonians 5:11) and to bear one another’s burdens, (Galatians 6:2) not to just to passively attend church. However, if you want to be an active participant and “doer of the word” instead of a spectator, (James 1:22) there’s a good chance that your living reliance on the risen Jesus will be labeled as rebellion.