What tells me if my faith is effective? How can I know whether I am in faith or presumption?
There are three parts to faith: belief, risk, and knowledge of the will of God. We all believe in many things. For example, I believe hang gliders actually work. However, until I take the risk to actually strap in and run off the side of a cliff I have not experienced it, I have not committed my belief to the point of taking risk. Belief alone without risk is not yet faith.
After risk is the third component, the will of God. If I set my own agenda and then risk expecting God to come through, I may be in presumption-it may or may not be the will of God. God is not obligated to back up what He did not initiate.
True faith is when we know what the will of God is, we believe that He is able to bring it about and we put ourselves at risk. We commit ourselves to some kind of a course of action and if God does not intervene, we will in fact be hurt.
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