According To Your Faith

Matthew 9:28-29 And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord. Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.

“According To Your Faith” It is God that creates and sustains. It is by His hand that we are made whole and it is by His Word that we are saved. He is our all in all and there is nothing too hard for him but let no man think that he will receive anything from God without faith. God has ordained that without faith it is impossible to please Him. We are commanded to believe and to not waiver in James 1:6-8 and that principle still holds true today. Jesus did not make this statement only once but Scripture is replete with this truth. In Matthew 8:13 he told the centurion, “Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee.” In Mark 11:24 Jesus said, “What things so ever you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them.”

So the question becomes, “How can I increase my faith? How do I believe in the midst of this storm? Paul tells us in Romans 10:17 that faith comes by hearing the word of God. But have you ever read the rest of that chapter? He goes on to rebuke Israel because they heard and remained disobedient. In fact the very next verse says “But I say, have they not heard”. Just hearing God’s Word is not going to magically give you faith. You must believe that God is and that He is a rewarder of those that diligently seek Him. You must hide His Word in your heart so that you will not sin against Him. Again, just memorizing the Scriptures isn’t enough. You must do it SO that you might not sin against God. This implies that you are living to please Him, desiring to not offend God in even the smallest thing. Faith is like the nucleus of an atomic particle. A particle so small, yet within that tiny structure is power so great that when it is released the power takes on a self sustaining life of its own. Faith in God is just like that. Deep within the core of your being is something as small as a mustard seed that can lay dormant and inactive for a lifetime. But when you come face to face with the Creator, its Creator, that faith can be activated and things will never be the same. It truly is a gift from God and as Jesus said, “All things are possible”, only believe.