Hebrews 11:1-3 (The Passion Translation) Now faith brings our hopes into reality and becomes the foundation needed to acquire the things we long for. It is all the evidence required to prove what is still unseen. This testimony of faith is what previous generations were commended for. Faith empowers us to see that the universe was created and beautifully coordinated by the power of God’s words! He spoke and the invisible realm gave birth to all that is seen.
Real faith is not hoping and wishing. Real faith is based on what the Word of God says and being fully persuaded that God has done it and it is ours.
Romans 12:3 says that God has given to every man the measure of faith. This is God’s faith! Without it you couldn’t have been born again. There are two kinds of faith: man’s faith and God’s faith.
Man’s faith only believes in what can be seen. In other words, you don’t need any real faith to believe something that you can see or touch. But, God’s faith gives us the ability to believe in something that we can’t see, touch or feel, or contact with our five senses.
Before you were born again, you heard the message of salvation through Jesus Christ and what He had done through the finished work of the cross for you and God’s faith was born in you to believe that! Romans 10:9-10 says, “that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” You believed in what you couldn’t see and you received the free gift of salvation!
Real faith is using the measure of faith that God has given to every born again person and believing in what we can’t see or touch. If we are believing for something that is possible we are not using God’s faith. It’s not until you believe in the impossible (what you can’t see or touch yet) that you begin to operate in God’s faith. If you’re not using your faith on something that is impossible (for you to do), you’re not using your God faith at all. All things are possible with God (“With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Matthew 19:26).
Mark 11:22-24 says, “So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God. For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.”
When Jesus said, “Have faith in God”, He was saying, “Have the faith of God.” The faith of God in you will cause you to speak to things, circumstances in your life and command them to line up with the Word of God. You believe in your heart (not just with your head), and do not doubt in your heart. Then you speak it forth out of your mouth. That’s how God done it! We can read it in Genesis 1 when He created the world and everything in it. He saw darkness but He didn’t speak darkness; He said, “LIGHT BE!” and it was! He is a Creator and we are created in His image and after His likeness. So, we are to operate like Him! We believe in our heart, do not doubt in our heart and then speak forth what we want to see (not what we have) and according to what Jesus said in this scripture, we will have what WE SAY!
Proverbs 18:21 (AMPC) says, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it [for death or life].”
What does your life look like? Are you speaking what you have or what you want? Are you speaking words of Life (based on God’s Word) or are you speaking words of death (based on circumstances and what you see or feel)?
If you want to see real changes in your life begin to read the Bible and discover what you have already been given. Meditate on it and as you do, faith will begin to rise up in you. Then speak it forth and watch things change.