A war on our faith!, Unbelief is commen

In a world that is falling apart, let not our faith
fall apart, we live in a world where petrol prices are increasing and the world and the churches are going crazy.

Mt 6:30 - Show Context
Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

Heb 11:6 - Show Context
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.

We are told in the bible without faith it is impossible to please God!
I think it is carter conlon who calls faith the gold in heaven.

Having faith in the one who has created the universe by his very hand and put the mountains in place, who opened the red sea, who destroyed the People of Noahs time, who created the world in seven days and who stopped the sun in Joshua and Hezekiah's day, who destroyed a vast army with an angel in Hezekiahs day, who raised Jesus from the dead and caused many miracles.

Romans 11
Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in." 20 Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear. 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either. 22 Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, F57 if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off. 23 And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. 24 For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree? 25 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. 26 And so all Israel will be saved, F58 as it is written: "The Deliverer will come out of Zion, And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; 27 For this is My covenant with them, When I take away their sins." F59 28 Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. 29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. 30 For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience, 31 even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy. 32 For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all.

I know personally that I have been falling into the sin of unbelief and when we realise that it is the sin that caused the people of Israel to fail.
Think what the sin of unbelief is, it is not believing that God is all powerful, we all need to beware including me as many situations that bring are hearts down but trusting that the Lord will bring us through this hard time.
We need Jesus!

Heb 11:6 -
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.

I believe if we believers would just get a hold of this scripture, we could see that God wants to reward our seeking Him.

This scripture tells us that God is a rewarder of those who seek Him.

God is trying to tell us the importance of seeking Him.

This shows our faith in God more than any thing we could do. There is no lack to those who diligently seek Him.

Miracles happen to those who continually seek God by faith in Him.

The seriousness of unbelief by David Wilkerson (article)--Feb6, 2006

http://www.worldchallenge.org/node/1061

Pasted some of the words from the article above

--Unbelief hinders all deliverance from the power and dominion of Satan.

--What does this episode tell us? It says unbelief shuts our ears to God, even when he’s speaking clearly to us. It shuts us off from fresh revelation. And it keeps us from intimate communion with the Lord. Suddenly, because we no longer hear from God, we have nothing to preach or testify. It doesn’t matter how faithful or diligent we may be. Like Zacharias, we bring on ourselves a paralysis of both our ears and tongue.

Finally, we’re confronted by this verse in Hebrews: “We see that they could not enter in because of unbelief” (Hebrews 3:19). Only one sin kept Israel out of the promised land: unbelief.

Canaan represents a place of rest, peace, fruitfulness, assurance, fullness, satisfaction, everything a true believer longs for. It’s also a place where the Lord speaks clearly to his people, directing them, “This is the way, walk in it.” But Israel couldn’t enter the Promised Land because of one sin.

That sin wasn’t adultery (and Scripture calls these Israelites an adulterous generation). It wasn’t their rampant divorcing. (Jesus said Moses granted divorces to that generation because they were so hardhearted.) It wasn’t rage, jealousy, sloth or backbiting. It wasn’t even their secret idolatry. Those sins were all the result of unbelief.

No, it was this sin, unbelief, that prevented God’s people from entering Canaan. Therefore, Hebrews urges us today, “Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief” (Hebrews 4:11).

I have known many Christians who decided to get serious about their walk with the Lord. They determined to become more studious in his Word, and they fasted and prayed with renewed conviction. They set their hearts to cling to God through every situation in life. As I observed their lives, I thought, “Surely all their devotion will bring a glow of joy. They can’t help but reflect God’s peace and rest.”

But all too often, the opposite was true. Many never did enter into God’s promised rest. They were still unsure, restless, questioning God’s leading, worried about their future. Why? They had a habitual leaven of unbelief. All their devotion and activity had been rendered ineffective because of it.

The believing servant clings to God’s New Covenant promise: “I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them” (Ezekiel 36:27). He also clings to this Word: “I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me…I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble” (Jeremiah 30:21, 31:9).

Finally, Hebrews declares, “Some must enter therein” (Hebrews 4:6). The writer is saying, in essence, “Somebody has to enter into this incredible promise.” I ask you: why not you, believer? Why not me? If our unbelief is keeping us out, we should pray, “Lord, help my unbelief. Heal my unbelief. Give me an abundance of faith.

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My own
I believe that faith is a '2 part thing' ie faith that is given by God and our faith in accepting God's words. When we pray to God to give us an abundance of faith, God will do so in the 'portions' and 'timeline' according to His wisdom and not our wants. However, we must also do our part (not just in praying) but also in our willingness to believe. (It is a relationship between 2 parties and when both parties are in sync, then abundance faith and peace is felt by the person (a peace that passeth understanding)