Develop Your Faith

Remember that of all the beautiful, exuberant, marvelous places that exist on the face of the the Earth, God chose to live in your heart. Make the personal work for growing to the maximum in your faith, to be what God dreamed for you to be: a person of strong faith in a God who lives among us.

Not one who stifles God and is many times discouraged.

Have faith.

That which is of God is reached through faith, not through the senses or through intelligence.

That which is of matter one touches through the senses. One can touch, feel, see and hear, but that which is of God, one cannot.

Do not try to rationalize or intellectualize something so transcendent. All of that which is natural is searched for with intelligence. See, for example, how beautiful is touch. You can feel and, therefore, there are millions of nerves in your body. They bring all the sensations of your body to your brain. It is so fast that automatically a response comes from your brain.

For example if you cut yourself with a needle, immediately your brain will respond with a sensation of pain.

Much more can we account with your eyes. There are millions of points each one without a lens. There is not a single lens that is capable of seeing all that you can experience with your human vision.

Hearing is marvelous, there are hundreds of nerves that bring all the sounds to your brain.

The same occurs with your intelligence. That which is material you cannot grasp with intelligence what you can grasp with feeling. Through intelligence you reason and have ideas. Your intelligence is marvelous. It is that which differs us from the animals.

Beyond intelligence you have another grace that God gives you. more than the senses and your own intelligence: Faith.

If you don’t use your eyes, you will not see. If you don’t use your touch you will not feel, if you don’t use your tongue, you will not taste, close your ears and you will not hear.

So as you need to use your senses and your intelligence, you need to use your faith.

We have faith and we need to use it.

There are persons with mental laziness. They do not use their intelligence. It is true that a majority of persons do not use more than 10% of their intellectual capacity. The same accounts for their senses that lack full use. There are persons who are sensibly lazy. They don’t use 100% of their vision or their hearing because they don’t apply themselves.

These visually dificient have adequate touch and the hearing. Therefore, they are excellent musicians, cantors and they can hear that which most people cannot hear. And why, simply because they apply themselves.

I have the oppotunity to perceive this in my better musical recordings when I worked with the Titulares do Ritmo, a group of blind musicians. They impressed me with a sensitivity in the interpetation of every recorded rhythm.

You too have this capacity, One person upon losing his vision is practically able to hear better and to apply his hearing better. He is able to read through the medium of the marvels of braille a system of upraised dots.

You too have this touch and because you see and hear you don’t apply it. The same thing with your faith. Unfortunately you are lazy. You don’t apply even 10% of your intellectual capacity nor 1% of your faith. You would like to give one more percentage, but unfortunately you don’t apply not even 1% of your faith. I repeat, you unfortunately have not applied not even 1% of your faith.

” tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” (Matt 17:20 NIV)

Faith makes the impossible become possible, but you have to apply it.

If you do not apply your touch, your hearing they are not going to develop, but if you apply them you will arrive at 100%.

You need to grow in your faith, You need to apply yourself in faith.

If you do not develop your faith, you will not see that which only those whom a confident and living faith can live and experience. The victory will not happen.

I want to be a conqueror. I believe that faith is victory, that conquers the world and is capable of conquering all situations of the world.

Renew my faith, Lord. Awaken me, Lord, I want to believe with all my heart and I want to be truly happy. The power of God is greater that any kind of resistance, but he respects liberty and not violence. On the contrary He desires an encounter. Yes a personal and unique encounter with you and He, the Lord.

If you still have not had this encounter. You need to have it.

Monsignor Jonas Abib
Founder of the New Song Community.