TRANSFORMING LOVE (MEASURE OF FAITH, PART 2)

CHAPTER 3

PART 2

GIVES YOU A “MEASURE OF FAITH”

“…..according as God hath dealt to each man a measure of faith” (Romans 12:3).

Godly faith actively rest in the promises of God’s word. Your “measure of faith” is alive. Your “measure of faith” is not simply dead inactive belief like the demons who also believe (James 2:19).

This “measure of faith” is a gift from the holy God and therefore, originates from Him. Again, faith is not originated from man, but distributed to each person by God alone (Romans 12:3).

 Faith powerfully enables each believer to respond to God’s word every time he/she hears it.

God’s “measure of faith” also keeps people humble by stopping them from thinking more highly of themselves than they should (Romans 12:3).

Faith is a gift that is “given” to each child of God from God and therefore, no one can boast about his or her personal effort (Ephesians 2:8).

Your “measure of faith” is a gift from God and powerfully appears as the power of God unto salvation when you are justified by faith (Ephesian 2:8).

Believers’ “measure of faith” is the power of God unto salvation, which opens the door to experience further supernatural gifts and blessings.

Faith is one of the most important of all gifts and Christians are commanded to live “…by faith and not by sight…” (2 Corinthians 5:7).

The most difficult part of responding by faith is living in a culture that depends mainly on what they can see and perceive to be true or not true.

This is often ingrained in the human psyche and when you are born again God-given faith proves to be a real struggle.

Christians think it’s a “lack of faith” that plagues them, when it’s actually a “lack of the exercise of faith” that’s the culprit.

Just like one grows and develops in the natural using their own reasoning and worldly perceptions; they must grow and develop in the spirit using their own“measure of faith.”

Godly faith requires regular spiritual exercise and exercise “…comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God…”(Romans 10:17). 

Don’ worry about how hearing the Word causes faith to come or appear. “…Have faith in God…(Mark 11:23-24).

God watches over his word to perform it (Jeremiah 1:12). God’s word never returns to him without first doing what it is supposed to do (Isaiah 55:11).

If God says faith comes at the hearing of his word, remember “..not one of the good promises which the Lord ..made……failed; [but] all came to pass..” (Joshua 21:45). Faith comes………

You grow up having some kind of visual proof to invoke human faith of some kind, however God-given faith does need to have visual proof.

GOD GIVEN FAITH

God-given faith is the proof and always makes the invisible, visible. That kind of faith, when regularly exercised through HEARING the word of God, grows stronger and stronger over the lifetime.

If exercised properly and regularly, God-given faith enables you to experience the creative, unseen power of God.

Exercising God-given faith is hardest when human effort interferes, and most believers fail because of human effort. “Therefore they said to Him, "What shall we do, so that we may work the works of God?" Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent" (John 6:28-29).

The Christian walk is a walk of faith. However, the problem with God-given faith happens when things occur in your life that you cannot “see” an answer to, or scientific evidence for, or human logic to solve it.

Faith becomes a challenge, even with your “measure of faith,” to truly depend totally on God, when you can’t see your own way out of a situation.

There are two solutions to this problem; HEAR the word of God often and get to KNOW God.

It’s hard to believe in someone you don’t know and you can’t know someone unless you spend time with them.

Hearing the word helps you to both know God and exercise your faith at the same time.

In the YADA relationship, God and the believer become “one” as they spend time together on a daily basis.  

God has left his intimate message of love to you in the Holy Scriptures and as you read his words you will come to know him more and more.

This will also activate your faith muscle to enable you to fully experience the creative, unseen power of God.

You can read the word quietly, read it out loud, listen to it by audio, watch it on DVD, or hear it through preaching as a way to build faith and get closer to God.

 If you don’t exercise faith it will be weak and inactivate. Your transformed spirit and God-given faith is ready and willing to enable you to live a rich and prosperous Christian lifestyle (Matthew 26:41).

The flesh will not profit you in that direction at all (Mark 14:38, John 6:63).

There are more doubting Thomases than people are willing to admit it and many rely solely on what they see. But Christ said,“……..blessed are those who have NOT seen and yet have believed….” (John 20:29).

Doubt is a part of the Christian journey and every one experiences it sooner or later. Believing without seeing is not a natural practice, but supernatural one.

God is Spirit and it is God’s normal is to make things visible out of that which is invisible (Romans 11:3).

Because humans keep their experiences limited to the tangible realities; spiritual realities are way beyond their inquiries or thinking (Ephesians 3:20). 

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"MEASURE OF FAITH" FROM THE

BOOK TRANSFORMING LOVE

BY PENSACOLA H JEFFERSON
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