FAITH - THE LAW OF THE CATALYST

I just found my revelatory Bible study on faith from 1998:

FAITH - THE LAW OF THE CATALYST

As revealed to Gene W. Benjamin II

Hebrews 11:1, “Now faith is the foundational catalyst of things that are confidently expected. It is the evidence of events that are still not seen.”

While meditating this Scripture on Resurrection S-nday evening, April 12, 1998, I wanted to know what faith really is. I was thinking of faith in relation to when I turn on a light switch, expecting and knowing the light will come on the instant (NOW faith is, this I understood) I flip the light switch. Faith is not the light bulb, or the light itself (the EVIDENCE of things not seen, this I understood), or the power that produces the light that is flowing in the wires all the time. It’s not the light switch or the power plant downtown. It’s not the wires either. Faith is not me, or me walking over to the light switch, or even the action of flipping the switch. The expecting is hope (of things HOPED for, this I understood), the knowing is belief. It’s the SUBSTANCE part that I DO NOT UNDERSTAND!! Oh Yehowah, WHAT is FAITH? Words started coming up out of my spirit, words like action, will, and then my knower that I know, that I know that I know spirit settled on the word CATALYST. That’s it! I knew that I knew that was it! I grabbed my Webster’s Dictionary to see what a catalyst was:

catalyst 1: a SUBSTANCE [emphasis mine!] (as an enzyme) that initiates a chemical reaction and enables it to proceed under different conditions (as at a lower temperature) than otherwise possible 2: an agent that induces catalysis; broadly: one that provokes significant change

Faith is a catalyst! It’s an initiator, a provoker, an inducing agent that allows us to act under different conditions than plain old natural carnal humans. It’s what motivates us to step into the realm of the divine, out of the natural and into the supernatural! Yehowah is the power that saves and the power that heals. Faith is the catalyst that causes us to choose with our own free will to believe Yehowah’s Word enough to take Him at His Word and therefore to act on His Word. Faith sparks us to choose to lay hands on the sick and see them recover. Faith induces us to choose to receive financial blessing from Yehowah through humans. Faith initiates our willpower to choose to trust Yehowah for salvation in the first place. Faith kindles that fire in our bones to preach Yehowah’s Word expecting results like what Yeshua produced!

Faith works with my will, never overriding it, to cause me to act in line, in union, in harmony with Yehowah, His Word, and His will for my life. I have tried for years to figure out with my mind what faith is. Hebrews 4:12 states, “For the word of Yehowah is living, active, and sharper than any two-edged sword. It pierces even to the division of soul from spirit, and joints from marrow. It is able to know the heart’s thoughts and intentions.” Understanding of Yehowah’s Word comes only by revelation through his Ruach Kodesh. You can read, study, and teach the Word of Yehowah out of your soul and never have a spirit understanding of what it is saying or what it really means in the Kingdom of Yehowah. Thank you Yeshua for your precious Word of life, my living thirst-quenching water!

Faith is what stimulates that boldness of spirit in healing evangelists to do whatever Yehowah tells them to do to an infirm individual to see them made whole; like when Yeshua spat in the dirt to make muddy eye patches for the blind man. Faith is what releases Ruach Ha’Kodesh in us to boldly rebuke Satan off of and out of people. Faith incites us to choose to speak the Words Yehowah gives us for people.

Faith is what energizes us to choose to connect our spirit with Ruach Ha’Kodesh of Yehowah to see His power flow through us to others. Like electricity, the power of Yehowah is always flowing and is always available. But you will never see the light until faith stimulates you to choose to flip the light switch ON! You could pray and ask Yehowah to turn on the light, but He won’t do it. He’s given that authority to you as a human. You could try commanding the light to come on, but it won’t work. You could call the electric power company and beg and plead with them to send you more power so your light will come on. They won’t and it won’t. You already have more than enough power flowing to power up the light bulb! You could ask someone else to turn on the light for you. That might work if they believe in light switches, and that there really is power flowing through the wires. Or you could just stir yourself up in your most set-apart faith (Jude 20) and reach out and touch Yehowah Almighty and let His power flow through you to light up your life!

Now you know what Paul meant when he said in Romans 10:17, “So faith comes from hearing and hearing by the spoken word of Yehowah.” You make faith more powerful, stimulating if you will, and stronger by hearing Yehowah’s Word spoken and preached. You want a more potent instigator faith! You want a provoking faith, a stirring up faith. The apostles desired growth in their faith when they asked Yeshua in Luke 17:5b to, “Increase our faith.” The word they used for increase is Strong’s number 4369, which means to place additionally, lay beside, annex, repeat. They thought they could add on more faith to the faith they already had; like faith + faith = double faith. They apparently did not understand the principle that Paul taught later in Romans 12:3, that every man had been dealt the measure of faith. Again, the problem with their faith was not volume or quantity but quality, as Yeshua instructed them in Luke 17:6 with the correct teaching that faith is like a grain of mustard seed. The size of the seed is not the issue, it’s the fact that it’s a pure seed, a pure CATALYST, that will stimulate the birth of a mustard plant. Yeshua states that a pure faith, unmixed with doubt or unbelief, might incite you to, “…say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.” It will obey the command spoken with a pure doubtless faith. Man has been given a finite amount of perfectly pure faith as determined by Yehowah, but it is enough to do all that He commands us in His Word to do on this earth. Yeshua, of course, has an infinite amount of faith, because He is Yehowah and has the Ruach of Yehowah without measure as stated in John 3:34. He also has absolutely pure faith. When Yeshua speaks His faith, even nonexistent things listen and become existent things, lumps of clay become sentient beings. Faith is substance that causes significant changes to occur.

Divine faith will stimulate you to make wise choices that will lead to divine actions that fulfill Yehowah’s perfect will in your life. Now you can understand how fear is the opposite of faith. Fear is a negative catalyst. Fear will cause you to make unwise choices that will lead to devilish actions whereby you will never fulfill Yehowah’s will for your life.