FAITH TO BELIEVE
Faith—the
God-given ability to believe Him for the impossible.
The gift of faith is the greatest of the power gifts.
It’s the exceptional ability to trust God to work, even in unusual ways or in
particularly challenging situations.
Again, there
is some confusion about the gift of faith. There are actually three revelations
of faith in the Bible:
• Romans 5:1
speaks of saving faith, which is
that measure of faith given to every person.
• There is
also the fruit of faith, in
Galatians 5:22, which is an important part of the fruit of the Spirit. The
fruit of faith is within each of us, as planted by The Holy Spirit, but the
gift of faith, in 1 Corinthians 12, comes for a moment, for a season, and for a
reason.
• The gift of
faith is the instantaneous assurance of God’s ability to act in a specific
situation. It does not deny fact…it changes it!
How do we move
into this gift and the three revelations of this gift?
Romans 10:17
says:
“So then faith
comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
The gift of
faith can only happen when God’s promises become more real to us than our
circumstances.
Therefore,
this gift can work through us when we act through the revelation of Scripture
and the direction of The Holy Spirit. What begins as hope through prayer
becomes faith.