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“You may say that you know God's Word is good, but you never will really know until you have acted on it and have reaped the results. And this is what I am trying to tell you that faith is. Faith is giving substance to the things hoped for. I acted on God's Word; I went to work. I hoped for the physical strength to do the work, but it was my faith that gave substance to what I had hoped for. Faith says, ‘God is the strength of my life.’ As I acted on God's Word, faith gave substance to that for which I had hoped. A lot of people just hope—and stop there. And that won't work. Faith is the substance of things hoped for. If you say, ‘Well, I hope God heard my prayer,’ and that's all you do, He didn't, and there won't be any answer. But your faith can and will give substance to the answer to that prayer. Remember this: Hope says, ‘I will have it sometime.’ Faith says, ‘I have it now.’”- Kenneth E. Hagin