Receive, Believe, Act on it

From Danny Steyne (excerpts): 
       "Faith is the determination to believe and know that everything that has been promised—everything that our hearts are yearning for—will happen, even when we still can't see it happening in the natural world. It is this trust that brings the accolades and the pleasure, not from men, but from God. In fact without this radical belief, it's an impossibility for God to receive honor and be blessed and excited about what is happening in a person's heart and life, because the first step in getting to know God is to simply to believe in Him even though you can't see Him. You have to determine to trust that He is, and you must also trust that He will come through for you simply because you are searching Him out (see Hebrews 11:1-2, 6 and 13)."
     "If the "Spirit of prophecy" is what demonstrates the "testimony of Jesus" then we must receive that which God is speaking to us and believe it, walk in it, and live in the reality of that promise regardless of external evidence at the moment. That is not foolishness, it's basic Christianity."