For the Christian, faith is a staple!! It’s like food is to the body. It’s a necessity for walking in God’s best…His Blessing. I want to encourage you today, to take that “measure of faith” that we’ve all been given and grow it to full maturity. As you walk through life, you’re going to quickly realize how much you will rely on and need faith.
Life is HARD!!! And not at all fair. But God has equipped us with the ability to take Him at His WORD and stand on it when we are facing troubles. Jesus told his disciples the way you increase your faith is to start using what you have. It’s like body building. Your muscles, over time, with consistent work will begin to enlarge, grow stronger and as a result your body is stronger and healthier. Faith works much the same way. You start where you are. Believing for what you are spiritually able.
What do I mean by spiritually able? Your ability to believe God and take Him at His Word depends on YOU! How much time you spend in His Word, meditating on it, speaking it, and making it your final authority, will determine the level of faith you have and where you can begin to increase it.
This blog post is about 21 verses in the Bible that addresses what FAITH DOES. I hope you will read through them all and Hebrews 11 as well. It is often referred to as THE FAITH Chapter.
WHAT FAITH DOES:
1. It will make me whole. Matt 9:22 “Daughter, be of good comfort; your faith has made you whole.
2. It determines the outcome. Matt 9:29. “According to YOUR faith, be it unto you. Matt 15:28. “Woman, great is YOUR faith; be it unto YOU even as YOU WILL”.
3. It moves mountains. Matt 17:20. “If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, move from here to yonder place and it will move and nothing will be impossible for you”.
4. It saves me. Luke &:50. “YOUR faith has saved you, go in peace”. “For by grace are you saved through faith:. Eph 2:8
5. It performs great miracles. Act 6:8. “Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people”.
6. It helps me live. Romans 1:17 “The just shall live by faith”.
7. It brings about my righteousness. Romans 3:22 “Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe”. Romans 4:5 “To him that believeth on Him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness”. Phil 3:19. “And be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by Faith”.
8. It delivers the promise made to Abraham to me. Romans 4:16. “It is of faith, that by grace, to the end of the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all”.
9. It justifies me. Romans 5:1. “being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ”.
10. It gives me access to grace. Romans 5:2 “By who also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand”.
11. It keeps me from sin. Romans 14:23. “whatever is not of faith is sin”.
12. It keeps my eyes focused on the answer, not what I see. “We walk by faith, not by sight”. 2 Corinthians 5:7
13. It justifies me and positions me to receive the blessing of Abraham. Gal 3:7-9, 11, 14. “They who are of faith, the same are the sons of Abraham…God would justify the Gentiles through faith…So, then, they who are of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
14. It makes me a child of God and heir to His promises. Gal 3:26,29. “For you are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus”. “If you be Christ’s, then are you Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.
15. It gives me boldness and access with confidence to the things of God. “In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him”. Eph 3:12
16. It allows Christ to live in me. “That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith”. Eph 3:17
17. It enables me to stop all the fiery darts satan sends at me “Above all, take the child of FAITH, with which you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked”. Eph 6:16
18. It allows me to inherit the promises. Hebrews 6:12. “That you be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises”.
19. It becomes the substance of what I hope for and evidence of what I don’t yet see. Hebrews 11:1. “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen”.
20. It heals me. James 5:15 “The prayer of faith shall save the sick and the Lord shall raise him up.
21. It allows the power of God to keep and hold me safe. 1 Peter 1:5 “Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last times”.
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