God bless you and greetings in the name of Jesus Christ.

"HAPPY NEW YEAR!" Welcome to 2001
When I was a kid growing up in the fifties, the year 2001 was one of those years that popped up in the science fiction movies about spaceships and aliens roaming earth. 2001 seemed so far into the future and yet, here we are starting the year of 2001.

Starting with Adam and Eve in Genesis, God has been consistent in His exhortation to man [to have faith] to believe in Him and believe what He spoke or had spoken by way of His prophets.

Hebrews 11:6(a)
But without faith it is impossible to please Him [God, for he
that cometh to God must believe that He is,..

Impossible is translated from the Greek word "adunatos," and it means: "deficient in strength and power, unable." Without "faith," we are unable, deficient of strength and power to please or be well-pleasing unto God.

WHO and WHAT are to be the object of our "faith?" First is GOD

II Chornicles 20:20(b)
"...Believe in the Lord your God, so shall ye be established..."

We are to "believe in" the Lord our God. Jesus reminds his disciples in John 14 of their belief in God.

John 14:1(a)
Let not your heart be troubled: ye "believe in" God, believe in me also.

Jesus said you believe in God, believe in [or have faith in] me also. Jesus is also to be the object of our "faith;" First God, then Jesus Christ .

John 6:29
Jesus answered and said unto them [the multitude, this is the work of God, that ye believe on him, whom He [God] hath sent

Paul, in Acts 20:21 tells the elders at Ephesus that he testified
to both the Jews and the Gentiles, repentance toward God and "faith" toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

The third thing that should be the object of our faith is our belief in the scriptures that were spoken or written of God by way of Moses and the prophets.

Let us begin 2001 with great expectation and believing in God, Jesus Christ, and His life filled and powerful Word.

John