Faith is (present tense). If its not right now, its not faith. If it’s just around the corner, it’s not faith. If you say God is going do it, its not faith. If you see things off in the future its not faith. Faith is! Faith is! If you say I don’t know why its taking so long, (without proper preparation ) it will never come. If you say just keep praying for me, ( for the very same thing), you’ll remain the same. If you see yourself any other way than having your answer right now, your not in faith. Faith calls those things that be not as though they were. Let me repeat that, faith calls those things that be not as though they were.
Romans 4:17-25 King James Version (KJV)
17. (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
18. Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
19..And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb:
20. He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
21. And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
22. And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
23. Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;
24. But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
25. Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.