Introduction

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In the first three volumes of this work, we proved that the Abrahamic Covenant provided healing, prosperity and well-being for Abraham and his seed.  We also proved that Christians are included in The Abrahamic Seed Group.  Consequently, healing, prosperity and well-being for every member of your family belong to you now if you are Christ's.

     The question we must answer now is, "How do I obtain these wonderful blessings of healing, prosperity and well-being for every member of my family?".  The answer is by faith.  But, what do we mean by "faith"?

     Let me begin my answer to "what do we mean by faith" with a bit of personal testimony.  I was reared in a Godly, Baptist home.  I was taught how to be saved from a very early age.  But this business of "faith" confused me.  I didn't understand what we mean "by faith".  Every time someone said to me "by faith" something short circuited in my mind.

     When I was in high school, two different Sunday School teachers came to my home on more than one occasion to talk to me about the salvation of my soul.  I would ask them what they meant with their expression "by faith"?  They said they meant that I should "believe".  I then asked them what they meant by "believe".

     Did they mean that I was to "believe" that Jesus is "there" like I "believe" the Russian capitol of Moscow is "there" although I have never seen it?  They said that "believe" means to "have faith".  I asked them again what did " have faith" mean?  They said it meant "to trust".  They were giving me a series of what seemed to me to be a bunch of synonyms but they never defined "faith" for me.

     I shall be eternally grateful for their witness to me. But I still didn't know what they meant "by faith".  At least they couldn't define it for me.  I asked other people to define faith for me.  To this day, no one ever has to my satisfaction.  This troubled me for years.  And during those years, I was lost and on the road to hell and I knew it.  But, no one could define faith for me.

     By the time I was twenty three years of age, I wanted to be saved more than anything else in the world.  It became an obsession to me.  I was afraid to die.  I was even afraid to lie down to sleep at night because I was afraid I'd wake up in hell.  I would have done anything to be saved.  But, I couldn't "have" what I couldn't define.  So I could not be saved "by faith".  And, I still didn't know if believing that Jesus is "there" like I believed that the Russian capitol is "there" was enough "believing" to get me saved.  I was in a mess.

     The salvation of my soul was uppermost with me.  It gripped my mind like a vice.  I was consumed with it.  I was preoccupied with it every waking moment.  I was in a stupor.  But, I still could not "have" what neither I nor anyone else that I had found could define.  And, how do I believe?  Somehow, I must discover what faith is and I must learn how to believe.

     Then one day I was walking aimlessly in the Gulfgate Shopping Mall in Houston, Texas.  I was walking in the mall looking in the store windows but my mind was on the eternal destiny of my soul.  I was looking in store windows and seeing nothing.  I was looking but my mind was obsessed with where I would spend eternity.

     Suddenly, I was gazing into a bookstore display in the window of a bookstore when something hit me like a blast of thunder.  It riveted my attention to it.

     This book store was displaying a Bible in their window.  The Bible was open to the Book of Proverbs and was placed upon a red velvet cloth.  There was a spot light from somewhere in the ceiling shining on this Bible.

     Behind the Bible was a large poster with one verse from Proverbs printed in large letters . It was the poster that almost knocked me to the sidewalk.  On that poster, they had blown up Proverbs 3:5 for all the world to see.  It trumpeted "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding".  This simple scripture and this simple display exploded like dynamite inside me.  I saw something I had never seen before.  I understood something I had never understood before.

     Standing there in front of that book store window, the crowd passing by, tears of joy ran down my face.  I still couldn't define faith but I was on my way.  That night at home, I opened my Bible and applied what I had learned in the shopping mall.  I was saved then and there.  There was no one in the room with me...just me, my Bible and the Lord.

     What I learned in the mall was only the beginning.  Over the years the Blessed Lord continued to reveal more and more things to me concerning faith.  Consequently, I can now define it, describe it, explain it and support my definition, description and explanation of it with scripture.

             In Chapter One of this volume I define, describe and explain what faith is.  Then, in the balance of this book, I show you how to apply this definition, description and explanation of faith to obtain the healing, prosperity and well-being that God promised you in The Abrahamic Covenant.  After reading this volume, you are on your way to everything that God has for you.  Go for it!  

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