Whenever you see a Christian suffering and living below where he ought to be, you can easily tell what he has been listening to. For the most part, he has been listening to things that have turned his heart away from the Word. There’s so much negative information in the world, enough to drain faith from you until you don’t have a lick of faith to face the daily challenges of life.
What gives that miraculous faith in the now is the picture we have of ourselves before God; it’s what we see ourselves to be in the presence of God. The faith principle wouldn’t work in your life beyond your knowledge of the Word. Your faith is in your ability to comprehend what God has done for you through Christ Jesus. Such information can only be received from the Word of God. So, you can see that faith comes only through your knowledge of the Word.
“Oh, how I would love to have faith for the miraculous!” you say. Well, the Bible says it’s impossible to be born again without faith. The fact that you’re born again shows that you already have faith (Romans 12:3). It’s your choice either to build the faith you already have with the Word or neglect it and be at the mercy of the circumstances of life. When you spend more time in the Word of God, faith will come to you and soon it’ll be to you something that’s so easy, something that comes naturally. It’ll become for you something that you possess in the now!
Faith gives us the boldness to face God and confidence to ask whatsoever we desire in prayer and expect results. It’s impossible to please God without faith (Hebrews 11:6). Therefore, faith is a necessary ingredient to lay hold on our inheritance and live the victorious life in Christ Jesus.
