Increasing Faith

Question:



Greetings fellow sibling in Christ,
I've been recently been searching and chasing after the faith of a mustard seed that is talked about in Matthew 17:20-21. Every great Christian I know has this type of faith, and I have been searching for it, yearning to find it.

My question is: How do I develop this type of faith? It's gotta start somewhere right? So where do I start and how can I start to develop it?

Thanks for your time, and thanks for this wonderful ministry you have going!




Answer:



That’s a very good question. I have often struggled with the same thing. To see others who are experiencing the joy of the Lord in their lives and walking in His fullness, and then looking at your own walk and feeling inadequate is very easy to do. What we have to first remember is that the faith that we do have is not something that we conjured up in ourselves. A very well known verse (Ephesians 2:8) says that we receive grace through faith. That faith doesn’t come from ourselves, and that even this is a gift from God. At the beginning of our walks when we are spiritually born, Christ receives us when we respond to His reaching out to us. He then gives us the ability to believe based on our response. We then are called to live by faith and not our feelings as 2 Corinthians 5:7 shows us.

Hebrews 10:23 says that we need to hold fast to our profession of faith because HE is Faithful. We are not walking based on our own faith. We are called to live based on the faithfulness of Christ in us. That takes the pressure of performance off of us and enables us to rest in His presence becuase He has promised never to leave us or forsake us (Hebrews 13:5). In resting in His faithfulness, we will see Him work mightily thorugh our lives and that increases our faith.

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