The Critical Difference Between Belief & Faith!

My wife Brenda made a simple yet such a profound observation yesterday.  It is a fundamental truth we’ve known so well for decades, but she presented it in a way that was fresh and new.  Powerful yet so simple.  

When you understand the revelation, I hope it captures you the way it did me, I think you’ll find your mind flooded with not only the scriptures but also with all of the times when you actually acted upon your beliefs.  That my friends is where faith was manifested.  When you understand that belief is information and faith is application then scriptures like these will take on so much more meaning.

• Matthew 8:26 26 But He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.
• James 2:18-20 But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. 19 You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble! 20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?
• The Passion Translation says it this way:  James 2:18-20 But someone might object and say, “One person has faith and another person has works.” Go ahead then and prove to me that you have faith without works and I will show you faith by my works as proof that I believe. 19 You can believe all you want that there is one true God, that’s wonderful! But even the demons know this and tremble with fear before him, yet they’re unchanged— they remain demons.
  20 O feeble sons of Adam, do you need further evidence that faith divorced from good works is phony?