THE FOOLISHNESS OF FAITH

                   
I was opportuned to minister to a group of students and during the meeting i said "faith doesn't make sense..." they are like "whats Daniel saying?" but it wasn't a thing of suprise cos people want to believe only what has proofs to back it up.
I want to share with you on the intellectual "foolishness" of faith. You will be able to see in very logical terms how "foolish" faith is. But very interestingly too, the foolishness of faith is the winning ticket in the race of life. Paul said in Romans 1:16, that he is not ashamed of the gospel. This is because some of its demands are things you could be ashamed of as they may appear like you're not rational ( to the natural man ). But paul said he's not ashamed of it, for inside that "foolishness" lies the power of God that is able to deliver results. As you understand the foolishness of faith you will be able to embrace faith with a sense of confidence in every injunction of scriptures.
There is that scattereth and yet increaseth and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. Proverbs 11:24.
For someone to be increasing when he's "losing" and then another that is keeping what he has is the one losing dosnt sound like good arithmetic but the foolishness of faith recomends that you believe that when you're scattering (giving your tithes, sowing seeds, offerings) you're increasing, when you withhold you decrease.
In the story of Lazarus being raised from the dead, when Jesus got there when he was told Lazarus was dead he said "Father i thank you". Father I thank you? Yes! God won't hear you until you thank him. It looks like foolishness because you don't say thank you until someone has done something for you or given you something but scripture is clear. Be careful for nothing but in everything by PRAYER and SUPPLICATION with THANKSGIVING let your request be made known unto God. Phil 4:6.
When the word of God says you are healed (1st Peter 2:24) and yet you feel pains and very sick, when the word says God has provided all your needs (phil4:19) and at that point you seem broke, when everything is going contrary to plans. To go with the word may seem foolish. Whatever God tells you to do no matter how crazy it may appear, believe it. When you do you've committed God to perform, you are bound to see what he has said come to pass. The foolishness of faith is the winning ticket in the race of life. Believe whatever the word says, don't rationalize it.
and blessed is she that believed for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord. Luke 1:45.