Hebrews 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.”
We all know the scripture quoted above that tells us that without faith it is impossible to please God, but that is not all that scripture says, for it goes on to say that there are two specific requirements that we need to fulfil when we come to God. The first requirement is that we must believe that God exists, for the scripture says that we “must believe that He is”. Obviously every born-again believer meets the first requirement, but it is the second requirement that we as believers, need to ensure that we fulfil. The second requirement in this passage states that we must believe that God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. And so we see that whatever we want to receive from God our Father, the requirement is that we must believe that He will reward us by answering our prayer. The only way that we can fulfil that requirement is by being fully convinced in our minds that what we are asking God is according to His will, for the Holy Spirit through the apostle John teaches us that if we ask anything according to His will He hears us and grants us our petitions (1 John 5:15).
Michael E.B. Maher
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