Book excerpt: Step Up to What God Has Said in His Word The Two Kinds of Faith explains directly from the Scriptures what real faith is. This book is a must-read for anybody who desires a deeper walk with God. Read it expecting the Holy Spirit to reveal principles that are easily applicable to your life situations, bringing powerful results because the Word of God is true and practical. What are the two kinds of faith? 1. "Sense knowledge" faith, where we must see, hear, or touch to believe. 2. Real faith, where we do not see, hear, or touch, yet we believe--and receive. We might understand this difference intellectually. Yet if we're not actually applying it in our everyday lives, it can have serious consequences for our relationship with God and the effectiveness of our prayers. Some people lose faith altogether when they feel God has not heard their requests. Many whose prayer lives were ineffective have turned to philosophical and metaphysical cults. Unanswered prayers stand between the believer and a life of faith. No matter what we may think or feel in the natural, God's Word is true, and it is the only foundation for faith. To help us live in this reality, we must actively exercise faith rather than "hope." You never receive what you are "hoping" for. Hope is always in the future. But faith is now! As we become one with the Living Word in our actions, faith will become an unconscious reality for us. We will never need to struggle to produce faith. We will only think of the need before us and God's ability to meet it. Real faith means acting on the Word, independent of any physical evidence. To believe is to step up to what God has said in His Word, and to have faith is to arrive there.