Gifts and Talents

            From the beginning of time, mankind has used many things as a currency. They started with animals and animal skins and ivory and many other things such as bones and animal’s teeth. The metals that were used were bronze, copper, silver and gold. Our money today is paper and coins. Our coins were at one time pure silver and pure gold. Our paper money was backed by silver and gold. Today we have no backing of our money except the promises of our Governments. That is a little scary. There are a lot of currencies in the world today.

      A currency is a standardization of money in any form, in use or circulation as a medium of exchange. When we buy a house we pay for it with the money in use at that time. The same goes for everything we buy. We use the money at hand.

      The currency of Heaven is a little different from our money. The Heavenly currency is not something we can touch or feel. Our heavenly currency is Faith. When we ask God for anything we spend our Faith. Our Faith is what God requires from us for His answer to our prayers. Faith is a lot easier to obtain that other types of currencies. The currencies of this world require a lot of sweat and hard labor. But Faith requires us to believe what God has said is the truth.

      When the men and women of the Bible had problems, obstacles, and the many things they had to overcome, the Bible said it was by Faith that they overcame. In Hebrews there is a list of a lot of people who had to overcome things in their lives. It was through Faith that they received the promise that God had given to them. Noah worked on the Ark for 120 years before it was finished. It had never rained up to that time. That is a lot of time to have Faith in God. Enoch was taken away to Heaven and did not see death. He had a testimony that he had pleased God. By Faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. By Faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they were encircled for seven days.

      God does not respond to our complaints, our crying over our problems, our listing our problems to Him. He does respond to our Faith. Our Faith is the currency that He requires from us. It is by Faith that we will see God’s goodness to us. We cannot please God without Faith. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. We see the things we are believing God for, though our Faith. God will not lie to us. If He said it, it will come to pass. We cannot have anything without Faith. Faith is the Currency of Heaven.

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      New King James Version
Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
2 For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.
3 By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.
4 ¶ By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he being dead still speaks.
5 By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, "and was not found, because God had taken him"; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
7 By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
9 By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise;