Faith

Yet another great excerpt from L.B. Cowman's book Streams in the Desert:

As long as you are waiting, hoping, or looking, you are not believing.  You may have hope or an earnest desire, but that is not faith, for "faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see" (Heb 11:1).  The command regarding believing prayer is: "Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours" (Mark 11:24).  We are to believe that we have received - this present moment....

True faith relies on God and believes before seeing....

Faith that believes it will see, will keep us from becoming discouraged.  We will laugh at seemingly impossible situations while we watch with delight to see how God is going to open a path through our Red Sea.