Hebrews 11:6 says, “Without faith it is impossible to please Him (God).”  That being the case, it is safe to say that “with faith it is altogether possible to please Him.

God created us to be “faith people.”  We are created in His image, and we are to imitate Him.  Was it not faith when God said, “Let there be light” before there was any light?  It was the word of His power, but it was undergirded by faith that it would surely be as He said.  He calls things that are not as though they were.

A loose paraphrase of Hebrews 11:1 is, “Consider things to be so, eventhough they are not so, so that they will become so, because God said they are so!”