{"id":3857,"date":"2025-04-22T05:08:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T05:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=3857"},"modified":"2025-04-14T00:08:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T00:08:47","slug":"fatih-beyond-what-we-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/fatih-beyond-what-we-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatih Beyond What We See"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Tuesday, April 22<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fatih Beyond What We See <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. <strong>Hebrews 11:1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Faith is the bedrock of our Christian walk. It&#8217;s not a wishful thought or a vague hope \u2014 it&#8217;s a confident assurance and a deep conviction. According to Hebrews 11:1, faith means we are certain about the things we hope for, and convinced of what we do not yet see.<\/p>\n<p>In daily life, it\u2019s easy to become discouraged when what we long for feels distant or invisible. Maybe you\u2019ve prayed for something over and over and seen no visible change. That\u2019s when real faith comes into play \u2014 not faith that depends on sight, but faith that trusts in God&#8217;s promises regardless of what\u2019s visible.<\/p>\n<p>Faith is not dependent on our senses or understanding.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a supernatural strength rooted in the unshakable character of God.<\/p>\n<p>When we choose to focus on God\u2019s Word \u2014 even when our reality seems to say otherwise \u2014 something begins to shift in us. Faith is stirred. Not because our situation changes, but because our perspective does. We see beyond the now, into the promises of God that are already yes and amen in Christ.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where are you struggling to see hope right now? How might God be inviting you to trust Him in the unseen?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for today<\/strong>: <em>Lord, build in me a faith that doesn\u2019t rely on what I can see. Help me to trust that what You\u2019ve spoken is more real than what I feel. Teach me to walk by faith and not by sight. Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, April 22 Fatih Beyond What We See Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1 Faith is the bedrock of our Christian walk. It&#8217;s not a wishful thought or a vague hope \u2014 it&#8217;s a confident assurance and a deep conviction. According to Hebrews 11:1, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3858,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857\/revisions\/3858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}