If you would like to study some examples on people who were spiritually reborn or “switched on.” their stories are in the Bible, and many of them are listed in the 11th chapter of Hebrews. (which is, by the way, my favorite book of the Bible).
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. …By faith we understand that the world was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was made out of things that do not appear.
By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than did Cain….
By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death….
By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events yet unseen, took heed and constructed an ark for the saving of his household …
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place which he was to receive as an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was to go.
By faith Sarah herself received the power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised…
By faith, Abraham when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises to offer up his only son …
By faith Isaac invoked future blessings on Jacob and Esau …
By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, made mention of the exodus of the Israelites…
By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid for three months by his parents because they saw he was beautiful and were not afraid of the king’s edict ….
By faith, when he was grown up,Moses refused to be called the son of the Pharoah’s daughter, choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God ….
The author of Hebrews goes on to say that there was not enough time to tell of all those who had seen the things which were to come through the spiritual understanding received in their faith. Will you be one of the “great cloud of witnesses”(Hebrews 12:1)? Whose spiritual insight has inspired you?
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