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One of the wrong beliefs that most of us grew up with is: I’ll believe it when I see it. The problem with that belief is that it puts things in the wrong order. The truth is that we see it because we believe it, not the other way around.

In the context of faith and abundance, our unbelief says: I’ll believe that I have abundance in my life when I see it. The truth is: I’ll see abundance in my life when I believe that I already have it.

I know that we look around at our circumstances and say, “But I don’t have the abundance I want. Just look at my bank account, or my credit card balances.” But seeing our current reality as something that is persistent, or even permanent, is part of the problem. We end up stuck where we are because we believe that things don’t, or can’t, change.

Faith is being able to acknowledge our current circumstances, but still hold onto the promise of what we hope for, even though it is not yet tangible for us. By definition, hope is something that we don’t see (Romans 8:24-25). So when Hebrews 11:1 tells us that faith is the substance of what we hope for, it’s saying that faith is the conviction (the belief and attitude) that we already have our hope. It is as real to us today, at least in how we think and feel about it, as if we were already holding it in our hands.

BY R MARSHALL