"According to His Word"/A Book of Studies

Hebrews 11:1-3 "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear."

Greek & English Definitions

now: (Greek) a primary particle (adversative or continuative);

(English) At this present time; instantly; at this moment; [Now is the constant syllable clicking from the clock of time. Now is he watch word of the wise. Now is the banner of the prudent]; Used to express or imply a connection between the subsequent and preceding propositions, often to introduce and inference or an explanation of what proceeds. Used as an emphatic in cases of command, entreaty, wishing, and the like; Existing at the present; The present time or moment. 

faith: (Greek) to convince (by argument, true or false); to pacify or conciliate (by other fair means); to assent (to evidence or authority), to rely (by inward certainty); to agree, assure, believe, have confidence, be confident, make friend, obey; persuasion, credence; moral conviction (of religious truth, or the truthfulness of God or a religious teacher), especially reliance upon Christ for salvation; constancy in such profession; the system of religious (Gospel) truth itself; assurance, belief, believe, faith, fidelity;

(English) The accent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting on his authority and veracity, without other evidence or on probable evidence of any kind; assent of the mind to a statement or proposition of another, on the ground of the manifestation truth of such statement or proposition; firm and earnest belief, on probable evidence of any kind; The accent of the mind to what is given forth as a revelation of man's relation to God and the infinite; a settled conviction in regard to trust in the Gospel's of Jesus Christ, specifically, in the Christian theology, 

(a) belief in the historical truthfulness of the Scripture narrative and the supernatural origin of its teaching;

(b) the assent of the mind to the truth of divine revelation, on the authority of God's testimony, accompanied by a cordial assent of the will or appropriation of the heart; an entire confidence or trust in God's character and declarations, and in the character and doctrines of Christ, with an unreserved surrender of the will to his guidance, and dependence on his merits for salvation, also called evangelical, justifying, or saving faith; The object of belief; a doctrine or system of doctrines believed; Faithfulness; fidelity; a strict adherence to duty and fulfillment of promises; Word or honor pledged; promise given; Credibility or truth:

(credibility  means the state or quality of being credible; Worthy of credence; believable, as a book or opinion; Entitled to credit or trust; capable of being believed). 

(truth  meaning the quality or state of being true; trueness, as (a) conformity to facts or reality, as of statements to facts, words to thoughts, motives or actions to professions; exact accordance with what is, has been, or shall be; (b) habitual disposition to speak only what is true; veracity; freedom from falsehood; (c) honesty; sincerity; virtue; uprightness; (d) disposition to be faithful to one's engagements; fidelity; constancy; That which is true, as a fact; a reality; a verity; the opposite of falsehood; a verified fact; a true statement or proposition; and established principle, a fixed law; a divine command; the doctrine of the Gospel.)

substance: (Greek) a setting under (support), (figuratively) concretely essence, or abstractly assurance (objectively or subjectively); confidence in, confident of, a person; applied to the mind, firm confidence, constancy; confidence or confident expectation; to stand.

(English) The divine essence or personality, as considered common to each member of the Trinity; hypostasis, "The Son is said to be the same substance as the Father, that is, truly and essentially God as the Father is."; to enrich, to endow. 

things: (Greek) a deed; by implication an affair, as the affairs that transpire when conducting business; an object (material), a business, matter, a thing, a work. 

(English) An act; a deed; a transaction; a matter; an event; an action; whatever happens or falls out, or is done, told, or proposed, as, a plan, a business, a work. 

hoped: (Greek) to expect or confide; (to anticipate, usually with pleasure); expectation or confidence in. 

(English) A desire of some good, accompanied with at least a slight expectation of obtaining it, or a belief that it is obtainable; Confidence of a future event; the highest degree of well-founded expectation of good; To place confidence in; to trust with confident expectation of good; to entertain hopes of; to anticipate the obtaining or occurrence of; to be hopeful of, being full of hope; having qualities which give rise to or grounds for hope or expectations of good; full of promise; promising; full of hope, desire, or confident expectation. 

evidence: (Greek) the proof, the conviction: 

(proof  meaning any effort, process, or operation that ascertains truth or fact; a test; a trial; What serves as evidence; hat proves or establishes; a convincing token or argument; means of conviction; that amount of evidence which convinces the mind of the certainty of truth or fact producing belief; The thing proved or experienced; truth or knowledge gathered by experience);

(conviction  meaning a strong belief on the ground of satisfactory evidence, without any implication of previous error; the state of having such belief; In theology, the awakening of conscience preceding conversion; The act of convincing of error or the truth of what is alleged);

(English) That which enables the mind to see truth; proof arising from perception by the senses, or from testimony of others, or from inductions of reason; To prove; to make clear; To support by testimony.

things: (Greek) [same as above]

seen: (Greek) to look at (literally or figuratively); to behold, to beware of, to look (on, to), to perceive, to regard, to take heed of; To stare at, (by implication) to discern clearly (physically or mentally); to attend to; to experience; to gaze (with wide open eyes, as something remarkable);

(English) Manifest; understood; evidence; also the past particle of see: (manifest ); (evidence); (see meaning to perceive mentally; to form a conception or idea of; to have intellectual sight or apprehension; to observe; to distinguish; to comprehend; to understand; to discern; to witness; to experience; to become acquainted with; to have the power of perceiving by the proper sight or apprehension)

                                                       Commentary

Faith: The Scripture says in Hebrews 11:1 "NOW FAITH" ( faith meaning trust, confidence, and loyalty in God, by and through His Word, not yesterday’s faith, but, "NOW FAITH") is the substance (or is the bridge of trusting in, having confidence in, and having complete loyalty toward and in God, by and through His Word, walking into the perfect will, plan, purposes, and destiny that God has for an individual) of things (or possessing the great and precious promises , the promise that His, God will build in us and manifest through our lives His and His Son, Jesus Christ divine nature, by and through the Holy Spirit of Promise, the Comforter, also that those who believe, trusting in, have confidence in, and have complete loyalty toward, and in God, by and through His Word, will be blessed with the natural things, the tangible things, the physical things, that He will be glorified through or works and deeds) hoped for (I or we hope, or who have confident expectation in God, through the revelation of the Word that He empowers and individual with, that He, God, by and through the Holy Spirit will build He and His Son, Jesus Christ divine nature in us, that we may be able to fulfill His calling that God has purposed on our lives, and to do the works and visions that God has planned and purposed in and through a person's life. Because in accordance to God's eternal plan for us, that we do the work and vision that He gives us. So the projects, the works, or the visions given by God, by and through the Holy Spirit, into a person's heart and mind, that through His works and visions the love of, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ may be made manifest in and through our lives, works, and deeds, that salvation may be brought to people of every person of every race and ethnic group, into every country around the world, that will bring glory and praise to the Great and Mighty and Awesome Almighty God and Father of all who believe in Him and in His Son, Jesus Christ, who is the King of kings, and the Lord of lords), the evidence(evidence meaning conviction which is a strong belief on the ground of satisfactory evidence, without any implication of previous error; that which enables the mind to see truth; proof arising from perception of the senses, or from the testimony from others, or from induction of reason) of things not seen (although we do not physically see the tangible assets, provisions, or finances initially when God gives a person a work and vision. Be assured that the businesses, the facility, and the finances and all of the provision, the tangible assets, is right here right now, as a person follows the leading and guidance of the Holy Spirit, even a God promised that Abraham's seed would inherit the promised land, or the land he was standing in, [as a person continues to trust in, have confidence in, and stand and be loyalty in the Word that God gives a person through every situation and circumstance and, in His promises, the substance of things hoped a person hopes for, the "Word of God" being the bridge into the plans, the purposes, and destiny that God has purposed in, and through a person's life, will pave the path into a person's destiny]).

As God did not have to create the land that He promised that He would give to Abraham and to his descendants, the land already existed, all Abraham heirs had to do was to go in and possess God's promises and the land He promised them. And today as the Children of Israel where the natural heirs and descendants of Abraham. Today, all who believe and who have made Jesus Christ their personal Savior and Lord, like the Children of Israel were heirs of the promises that God gave to Abraham, we as believers, who are born by the water of the "Word of God" and by the Spirit of God, have become heirs and joint heirs with Jesus Christ concerning the promises of Abraham and concerning the promise of God declared in and through his Word, that he promised to all who believe and who have received Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord into their heart and lives.

As a person yields to the leading and guidance of the Holy Spirit and begins to step out and do those things that the Holy Spirit reveals to them to do, both spiritually and in the physical. The Spirit of the Lord, He will lead us and guild us into all Truth, toward possessing the promises of God, and toward possessing the parts and tangible things for the works and the visions that God has given us. Where we as Believers, who are born of water and of the Spirit need to always keep in mind and remember, that entering into the plans, purposes, and the destiny that God has purposed for us, does not come by might (our might), nor by power (our power), but entering into and possessing the promises of God, and the parts, and the provisions of the works and visions that God has given and purposed for us, comes by and through, His Spirit Saith the Lord God Almighty.

And if I, or we have faith in God, in and through His Word, I or we have to step out and walk in faith, because without faith it is impossible to please God (faith is an action word meaning that we have to trust in, have confidence in, and be loyalty to God, in accordance to the Word and the revelation of the Word He gives us in every given circumstance and situation. Our only act in this process is to hear His Word or Commandment, receive it in our hearts and minds as He reveals the revelation of His Word to us , by and through the Holy Spirit, I or we need to be obedient (obedience is an act, or it is an action) to what God has said, and what we know what He has told us to do, in accordance to His divine will, plan, and purpose, and destiny He has purposed in and through a person's life).

Where we need to always keep in our mind that we have a Great and Mighty God and Heavenly Father, who is "able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that (He) worketh in us". We also need to always keep in mind that the one thing that pleases God, is faith (again faith is stepping out and entirely, completely, exclusively, and perfectly trusting in Him and only in Him and in His Word, also having and maintaining our complete confidence in Him, and continuing to maintain our total loyalty to Him (to our Almighty God), and to what He ( The Almighty God) has shown us to do individually and collectively as the body of Christ, and He (The Almighty God) is "ABLE" to do as He (The Almighty God) has said and promised in and through His Word, for us and through us, by and through the mighty working power of the Holy Spirit, in the, “Mighty Name of JESUS CHRIST", our Lord and Savior).

Because in Hebrews 11:6 it says, But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is (as I or we believe that He is or He exists), and that He is the a rewarder (rewarder meaning one who or that which rewards or causes to recompense or cause a return for; to give or render an equivalent for services, losses; to repay; to requite; to make compensation for and received all of the rewards, provisions, and blessings in this life time) of them (who so ever will), that diligently (diligently meaning to search out, to worship; to seek after; In a diligent manner or steady in application to business, also constant in effort or exertion to accomplish what is undertaken; assiduous or performed with constant diligence or attention; as, assiduous labor; attentive or characterized by thoughtful regard or attention, courteous or polite; industrious or given to industry; diligent in business, not slothful or idle, diligent in a particular pursuit or to a particular end) seek Him (Almighty God).

So with the above said, the Lord has shown me that as a person steps out in faith, as Abraham did when God told him to leave the land of his fathers, or when God told him to sacrifice his son to Him, that God would bless a person's obedience and cause him to possess the promised land (or the promises of God written throughout the entire Bible), as He blessed and prospered Abraham and his seed. Where God's first and foremost promise to us is that He will cause us we to be partakers of His and His Son, Jesus Christ divine nature, in accordance to His Word found in 2 Peter 1:4, then as His divine nature is built in us and manifest through us, all of the other promises of faith, hope, love, peace, joy, prosperity, will be added to us, and will overtake us, in Jesus mighty name.

Author:

Na To Ah Wa Pii (Holy Speaker)