What works between you and God works everywhere else too.
When you hear “faith,” what comes to mind?
If it’s some hazy, mystical just believe and the universe will deliver thing… congratulations, you’ve been sold the “name it and claim it” version.
That’s not faith. That’s a bad infomercial.
It’s not insert prayer, get dream house. And don’t get me started on the guys who tell you that if you only send them money, God will pay you back.
Biblical faith is a lot more grounded—and a lot harder.
It’s trusting what God says is true even when all the visible evidence screams otherwise.
Case in point: the gospel says if you’ve trusted in Jesus, you’re perfect in God’s sight.
Not “getting better.” Not “almost there.” Perfect. Right now.
But look around your life and tell me how perfect you feel.
- You still want to do stuff you know is wrong.
- You still do it—maybe less than you used to, but still.
- You skip doing what you know you should.
- You screw up without even realizing it—by forgetting to trust, by thinking you know better, by not even knowing what you don’t know.
From where you’re standing, “perfect” is the last word you’d use.
Faith says, “Yeah, but I believe what God says over what I see.”
In Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill talks about faith too—but it’s a different animal. He’s talking about believing you’re going to achieve your goal before you’ve got a shred of proof.
You carry yourself like it’s already a done deal.
But when you see evidence your way isn’t working, you don’t just stand there and wait for it to fix itself. You change something. You adjust. You improve.
That’s the split right there. With God, you’re not the one making the thing happen—He already did it. You’re not improving His system. You’re just trusting it.
With your own goals? You are building the thing. So you trust the end result will happen, but you also fix what’s broken as you find it.
Jeff Olson in The Slight Edge doesn’t call it faith, but it’s basically the same principle: small actions, repeated over time, lead to huge results.
The problem is, most people quit because they can’t see it working yet.
Faith, in Olson’s world, is knowing those boring little actions are paying off—even when the scoreboard says zero. So you keep doing them.
Biblical faith says: trust what God says, even when the evidence doesn’t back it up. Hill’s faith says: trust your goal enough to take every step like it’s already yours. Olson’s edge says: trust the process long enough for it to work.
The difference is who’s doing the heavy lifting. With God, He’s the Creator. You rest. In your life when you’re the creator, you adapt.
Either way, the key is the same: live and act today like the unseen thing is already real—because in the ways that matter most, it already is.
I’m not even going to try to tie this one to real estate—you either see it or you don’t. But I’ll still ask you to subscribe…
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