God Responds To Faith

Sometimes people get in situations where their backs are up against the wall. Something has happened, somebody has done something, or a circumstance has come against them and they don’t know what to do. Here is what some Christians do when there is a problem. They get real spiritual and have all of these religious things that they say. The sayings are based on truth, but they can become a cliché to the point they are not spoken as truth.

It is scriptural to pray and to ask God for things, but it is not scriptural to just throw up a prayer like you’re throwing dice and just hope that your number comes up and you win the prize. It’s not scriptural to ask God to do something He has told you to do. You may say, “Well, God can do a lot of things I can’t do.” That’s true. There are many things God can do that we can’t,-like create a universe or save people. However, we have been given authority on this earth that many Christians are not aware of.

Faith is knowing in our heart that God has completed His work concerning our problem and speaking and acting on the faith that is established within us. When Jesus spoke, He spoke in faith and in authority. He spoke with confidence and did not leave room for a loophole. In Mark 4, Jesus spoke to the wind with authority and confidence: “Then He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, ‘Peace, be still!’” and they listened and obeyed: “The wind ceased and there was a great calm” (v. 39). Afterward, Jesus turned His attention to His disciples, who had not been walking by faith.  “He said to them, ‘Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith?’ And they feared exceedingly, and said to one another, ‘Who can this be, that even the wind and the sea obey Him!’” (Mark 4:40,41).

We cannot allow our confessions to become charismatic clichés. Our confessions must be the Word of God spoken from our heart. When we believe, speak, and act on the Word, that’s faith. God responds to faith, not clichés.