Faith and reality - I am confused

[Achie]

This is the first time I am posting here.. Please bear with my English as it is not good.. I want to understand the difference between faith and reality.
We all know that faith is one of the important aspect of Christian life. When we pray we should pray believing that it will be answered by God.. But I also heard some ppl say that if your prayer is not answered then it's because it is not God's will..
This confuses me.. I pray about something and it is not being answered for a long time.. Then I start thinking ok May be it's not God's will.. But I am also scared what if God is testing my faith.. So I dunno if I should continue to pray about it or stop praying about it.. Can u please help me.. Also there is another thing that bothers me.. Sometimes I wish for something that is not possible in reality and I pray for it.. But ppl laugh and say please pray for things that are possible in reality.. But i tell them Jesus says if you have Faith it will be done to you.. But they don't agree.. They give me long reasons but I am not convinced.. When Jesus says if we have Faith and ask him anything it will be done.. Does the subject of Faith matter? I may be wrong.. Please help me understand..

 

[ladylovesJesus]

Sometimes when we pray and expect answers what we get from God is not what we expected as He will answer with a no, or wait. His timing is perfect and when we pray according to His will, He will answer but there is no time with God. He will test our patience etc.

Without faith it is impossible to please God. Hebrews 11.6. We walk by faith and not by sight as Jesus told us that blessed is he who has believed and not seen. John 20.29.


Matthew 20.17 And He *said to them, “Because of the littleness of your faith; for truly I say to you, if you have faith [a]the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.

Matthew 21.21 And Jesus answered and said to them, “Truly I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it will happen.

To pray in God's will you will find it in the Bible.

God bless.

LLJ

 

[Brad Huber]

If a child asks for a snake to play with, will a loving parent give it to them, despite the childs desire for it? If you desire something thats not good for you spiritually or physically, God will often withhold it out of love.

If you are praying that someone be changed morally to reflect better the nature of God, you are asking God to take someone's free will from them and enslave them to His will. God loves us so much that He wont force us to do anything against our own will. The most God can do, is repeatedly use the Holy Spirit to convict the person of what the right thing is, and hope they will follow the leading of the Holy Spirit.

 

[RJ]

Faith can affect or have an effect on the reality of things that are going on around you but , make no mistake, faith is not a physical thing but a spiritual one. The Bible says that we, currently, in this reality, only know in part about spiritual matters.
God says he is spirit but we often judge him or try to relate to him in the physical, like looking for change in our life, "reality".

There is nothing wrong with that and prayer does change things but often not to match our expectations.
He says that he gives to each of us our own measure of faith, so it is not for you to manufacture or blame the "lack of" based on some level of reality you are looking for. If you think that the level of the faith that you currently posess may not be working for, remember what God also said about increasing your faith...by hearing and listening to his word.
So, be sure to stay in the word of God at a level that will satisfy your doubt that He is not listening.

You want reality, here is a dose of spiritual reality: At your end, either now or later it is not the strenght of your faith that carrys you across the finish line but the strenght of Jesus faith in God telling Jesus that you belong to him and he will not loose you!

 

[james1523]

Actually faith and reality are related to each other.

In John 14:6 Jesus said He is the reality. Jesus is the reality of all spiritual things.

What is faith? Faith is not merely belief in our mind.

Faith is the substance, of the reality of things we cannot see, spiritual things. - Hebrews 11:1.

Things that we hope and wish for are not seen. The fact that we have faith is the evidence, the reality for the things we do not see.

When we have faith, we experience the reality of the things that are not seen.

To have faith, is to experience Jesus as the reality of all spiritual things.

Genuine prayer is the expression of the sense deep in our spirit. God does not answer prayers from our thoughts, will, or feelings (Eph 6:18, 1 Cor 14:15). 1 John 5:14-15 says God hears our prayer only if it is His will. It does not depend upon our thoughts, our will, our feelings.

God's will is already determined. Nothing can change God's will. His mind is already made up from eternity past. God has already determined what will happen.

Prayer is not to change God's will, it is to bring God's will into effect. We need to pray that His will is done on Earth as it is in Heaven.