Faith is a force multiplier.

“… force multiplier is a factor or a combination of factors that gives personnel or weapons (or other hardware) the ability to accomplish greater feats than without it.” — Wikipedia

General Colin Powell liked to use the term to refer to having the right people in place and them empowering them to produce more together than they could alone. He also said, “Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.”[

Faith is what moves, motivates, and multiplies people and resources in the world to accomplish more than they even imagine they can do.

Like a triad in music the overtones of faith echo through the centuries.

By faith, unlikely people do the unlikely and their faith reverberates through the generations.

Faith is substance.

Faith activates hope.

Faith is evidentiary.

Grow in faith.

Hebrews 11:23–31

By faith Moses was hidden by his parents for three months after his birth, because they saw that the child was beautiful; and they were not afraid of the king’s edict. By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called a son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. He considered abuse suffered for the Christ to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to the reward. By faith he left Egypt, unafraid of the king’s anger; for he persevered as though he saw him who is invisible. By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel. By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as if it were dry land, but when the Egyptians attempted to do so they were drowned. By faith the walls of Jericho fell after they had been encircled for seven days. By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had received the spies in peace.

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True Food, True Drink, Real Life

With every free gift, there comes an action required of the recipient before the benefits can be fully enjoyed.

So it is with the gift of life, the eternal kind, that Jesus gives.

So he frames the gift and wraps it in his body and blood.

Eat it. It is an act of faith and receiving. It is a way of internalizing eternity.

Drink it. Even if the thought of it seems grotesque and undignified. Receive the gift, by faith, however it comes.

It is life-giving.

John 6:52–59

The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

So Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day; for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like that which your ancestors ate, and they died. But the one who eats this bread will live forever.”

He said these things while he was teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum.