Today, we continue our series entitled “Living the Grace Life,” where we will learn to embrace and walk in God’s unmerited, unearned, and often undeserved favor throughout 2025.
As part of this series, I am teaching a verse-by-verse exposition of the book of Galatians.
Key scriptures for this year:
2 Corinthians 9:8 TPT
“Yes, God is more than ready to overwhelm you with every form of grace, so that you will have more than enough of everything—every moment and in every way. He will make you overflow with abundance in every good thing you do.”
Galatians 5:4 TPT
“If you want to be made right with God by fulfilling the obligations of the law, you have cut off more than your flesh—you have cut yourselves off from Christ and have fallen away from the revelation of grace!”
Romans 6:14 ERV
“Sin will not be your master, because you are not under law. You now live under God’s grace.”
1 Corinthians 15:10 CEV
“But God treated me with undeserved grace! He made me what I am, and his grace wasn’t wasted. I worked much harder than any of the other apostles, although it was really God’s grace at work and not me.”
Scripture(s) we will study today:
Galatians 3:6 TPT
“Abraham believed God and God recognized his faith as righteousness.”
Galatians 3:6 NIV
“So also Abraham ‘believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.'”
Hebrews 11:1 TPT
“Now faith brings our hopes into reality and becomes the foundation needed to acquire the things we long for. It is all the evidence required to prove what is still unseen.”
Romans 4:17 TPT
“That’s what the Scripture means when it says: ‘I have made you the father of many nations.’ He is our example and father, for in God’s presence he believed that God can raise the dead and call into being things that don’t even exist yet.”
Setting the Stage:
For the past two days, we’ve been exploring how Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness. We saw that he lived 430 years before the Law, that his faith stood alone without religious performance, and that nothing was added to his faith to make it acceptable. Today, I want to show you something even more significant about Abraham’s faith that will most certainly impact your own.
Abraham taught us a major key about faith: faith peers into eternity from time and then comes back to live in accordance with what was seen. When God showed Abraham the stars and told him his descendants would be that numerous, Abraham wasn’t just looking at stars; he was seeing into a future that wouldn’t manifest for thousands of years. His faith allowed him to see what wasn’t there yet. His faith gave him access to eternal realities while he was still living in temporal circumstances. Our faith does the same for us today.
This is the nature of true faith. Faith sees what God reveals and believes it, even without any sense-realm evidence to support it. Faith has vision that transcends time. Faith looks past the temporary and locks onto the eternal. Faith peers through the veil of the natural and glimpses into the supernatural reality that God has already established.
Abraham’s faith became the bridge between what God had already done in eternity and what would manifest in time. This is what your faith does, too!
So what does this mean to you today? A few things.
1. Faith Gives You Access to Eternal Realities Before They Manifest in Time.
Abraham saw nations in his future when he didn’t even have one son. He saw countless descendants when his body was practically dead. How? Faith gave him eyes to see what God had already established in eternity, even though it hadn’t shown up in time yet. And he did this without a Bible, without a Pastor, and without the Holy Spirit. He is the “Father of faith.”
How this applies to you:
— Your faith is not about you believing that you are waiting on God to decide your future. Faith is you believing that God is revealing to you what He has already decided.
— Abraham didn’t convince God to give him descendants. God convinced him. Faith is not about you convincing God to give you what you want. Faith is what happens when God convinces you to believe what He wants for you.
— When you exercise faith, you’re not hoping God will do something; you’re seeing that He has already done it in the eternal realm. This is why we say, “It’s already done!“
— Faith sees the finished work before time catches up with it. And faith lives in the present based on what God revealed about your future, without regard for any current circumstances that say (or maybe even SCREAM) otherwise.
— Faith operates outside the limitations of time. While your natural eyes are bound by time (your eyes can only see the present), your faith can peer into eternity and see what God has already accomplished. This is how Abraham could rejoice over descendants he would never meet in his lifetime.
— God told Abraham, “I have made you the father of many nations.” Guess what? That is past tense! God spoke about Abraham’s future in the past tense because in eternity, it was already done. Your faith accesses these “already done” realities.
— It’s like when God transported the Prophet Isaiah 700 years into his future, so he could see Jesus on the cross. Isaiah came back from that expereince and wrote, “But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.” Read that verse again and you will see that Isaiah wrote beforehand in past tense! Why? Because it was already done.
— Every promise God makes to you has already been accomplished in eternity. Your faith doesn’t make it true; your faith sees that it’s already true, agrees with it, and then lives convinced by it, while refusing to be moved by what you see with your natural eyes.
— When circumstances contradict God’s promises, faith chooses to see what’s true in eternity rather than what appears true in time. Abraham’s circumstances said “childless,” but his faith saw “father of nations.”
— Your faith is literally your spiritual eyesight that allows you to see into the eternal realm where all of God’s promises already exist in their fulfilled state.
2. Faith Calls Things That Are Not as Though They Were.
Romans 4:17 tells us that Abraham believed in the God who “calls into being things that don’t even exist yet.” But notice, Abraham didn’t just believe IN this God; he believed LIKE this God. Abraham learned to call things that were not as though they were. God told him to start introducing himself as “Abraham” (which means, Father of Many Nations) before he had the promised child. Abraham had to do this by faith. He had to walk around saying, “I am a Father of Many Nations” before it manifested.
How this applies to you:
— Faith doesn’t deny current reality; faith declares the eternal reality. Abraham didn’t pretend he wasn’t old; he declared he was a father of nations despite being old.
— When God changed Abram’s name to Abraham (meaning “father of many”), He was teaching Abraham to call himself what he was in eternity before it manifested in time. Every time someone called his name, they were declaring his eternal identity.
— Your faith declarations are not wishful thinking; they’re announcements of what already exists in eternity. When you declare “I am healed,” you’re not trying to make it happen; you’re announcing what Jesus already accomplished.
— Abraham had to call himself “father of many” for about a year before Isaac was born. God changed his name when he was 99, and Isaac came when he was 100. But here’s what’s powerful: Abraham waited on God’s promise for 24 years before God even changed his name! This teaches us that faith maintains its confession even when time hasn’t caught up to eternity yet. Faith is patient because faith sees the end from the beginning.
— Faith speaks from the eternal perspective, not the temporal one. This is why faith can say, “I am blessed” in the middle of lack, “I am healed” in the middle of sickness, and “I am victorious” in the middle of battle.
— When you speak faith, you’re not lying about what is; you’re prophesying what shall be because it already is in eternity. There’s a massive difference between denial and declaration.
— God honors faith that calls things that are not as though they were because this kind of faith operates the same way He does. You’re literally speaking His language when you declare eternal realities into temporary situations.
3. Faith Sees the Invisible and Makes It Visible.
Look at how different translations of Hebrews 11:1 reveal this truth. The TPT says faith is “all the evidence required to prove what is still unseen.” The ERV declares that “Faith is… proof of what we cannot see.” And the AMPC goes even deeper, calling faith “the title deed” and explaining that faith is “perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses.”
How this applies to you:
— Your faith is the confidence you express in your belief that what God promised already exists, even when no one else can see it yet. Abraham’s faith was the only evidence of his coming descendants for 25 years.
— Faith doesn’t wait for physical evidence; faith IS the evidence. When you believe God’s promises, your faith becomes the proof that they’re real, even before they manifest.
— The invisible realm is more real than the visible realm. Everything visible is temporary, but everything invisible is eternal. Faith chooses to focus on the eternal invisible rather than the temporary visible.
— Abraham saw Isaac in the realm of faith decades before Sarah held him in the realm of sight. Your faith sees your promise fulfilled right now, even if your eyes won’t see it for years.
— Faith makes you look crazy to people who can only see in the natural. Imagine Abraham, at 99 years old, telling people he was about to become a father! But faith doesn’t care about looking foolish to those who can’t see into eternity.
— Or what about the time when God told Abraham to sacrifice Isaac? Abraham said to his servants, “You guys wait here. Me and the boy will go up to sacrifice and me and the boy will be back!” (Genesis 22:5 Rick Pina Version). Arbaham SAW himself coming down from the mountain with his son. So, even though God said to sacrifice him, all Abraham knew was, “I don’t know how it is going ot happen, but me and this boy are coming back togehter from that mountain.” That’s how we live by faith. We may not have all the answers, but if God reveals, we believe it! That’s it!
— When you walk by faith, you’re literally walking according to what you see in the eternal realm rather than what you see in the natural realm. This is what it means to “walk by faith, not by sight.”
— Your faith is creating a bridge for the invisible to become visible. Every time you believe God’s promises, you’re building a pathway for eternal realities to manifest in time.
4. Faith Transcends Time and Connects You to Eternity.
Abraham’s faith allowed him to transcend the limitations of his lifetime. He saw and rejoiced in things that wouldn’t happen for thousands of years. Jesus said, “Abraham rejoiced to see My day” (John 8:56). How could Abraham see Jesus’ day? Faith transcends time!
How this applies to you:
— Your faith connects you to eternal realities that transcend your present time, and sometimes even your lifetime.
— When you pray in faith based on God’s promises, you’re coming in agreement, in your present, with the future God has revealed. You’re not hoping it might happen; you’re seeing what God said WILL happen.
— Faith allows you to see the end from the beginning. Abraham saw himself as a father before he had a child. You can see yourself healed, blessed, and victorious based on what God has revealed in His Word.
— Your faith can reach into your future and bring confidence into your present. When you know what God has promised for your tomorrow, it changes how you handle your today.
— When you operate in faith, you’re literally living from your future backwards. You’re making decisions based on where God said you’re going, not just where you are right now.
— Lastly, faith allows you to rejoice about promises that haven’t manifested yet. Abraham rejoiced about being a father while still childless. You can rejoice about your healing while still fighting sickness, about God’s provision while still in need, because faith sees what’s coming and it knows it is ALREADY DONE!
That’s enough for today.
Declaration of Faith:
Father, I thank You that my faith peers into eternity from time!
Like Abraham, I see what You’ve already established in the eternal realm.
I call things which be not as though they were, because in eternity, they already are.
My faith transcends time and connects me to Your eternal realities.
I’m not waiting for You to decide my future; I’m seeing what You’ve already decided.
I speak from eternity into time, declaring what shall be because it already is in You.
My faith sees the invisible and creates a bridge for it to become visible.
I am living #TheGraceLife and GREATER IS COMING FOR ME because I see it already done in the eternal realm!
I declare this by faith. In Jesus’ name. Amen!
This is Today’s Word. Apply it, and prosper!
