DOES FAITH EXIST IN THE WEST?

DOES FAITH EXIST IN THE WEST?

Good times and abundance seem to describe the western Christian's idea of the normal Christian lifestyle. However when you try to match it up with Romans 1:17 the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. Then when you go to the well known faith chapter, Hebrews eleven, there is a wide gap! Abundance does not reveal or build faith. Faith to be faith must have negative circumstances to cause it to exist. The very mention of the need of faith, means a hard time is about to be entered. 

There is a major catastrophe coming to the western abundance that almost every western believer refuses to talk about, of even think about, because there is such little faith. Untested faith is no faith, because faith without works is dead faith. How can mountain moving faith exist with no mountain. Extreme fear paralyzes the human being, that's why men's hearts will fail them for fear, as they look at those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken." Luke 21:26 

The thought of living with no money at all, no gas, no job, no insurance, and no electricity, wow, that's insane, because to live like that you would need actual faith! Suppose you return from the grocery store and only had enough money to buy two packages of fish and five loaves of whole wheat bread. You planned on it for your family of four, but  when you turned on to your street there was over a thousand hungry neighbors in front of your house! Faith demands hard times in order to be called faith, for this cause as the hard times come to the abundant believer they will fall away, thinking I have failed them, when it was their faith that failed them. 

I came that you might have life and life more abundantly, but the western mindset misinterprets abundance as money and things.  I made it very clear, when I said, "Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life does not consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.  Luke 12:15

Everything in the western mindset is equated with money and material goods, this is the great deception! From this point on you must equate abundance with faith, because with out it your heart will fail. For this reason, "today's trial of your faith, is much more precious than of gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire, so that you might be found giving Me praise and honor and glory at My appearing:  [9] So that in the end your faith, is rewarded with the salvation of your soul." 1 Peter 1:7-9 

This is next to impossible for the western Christian to understand, but hard times are actually a large part of your salvation, because without faith it is impossible to please My Father.