Everyone has a measure of faith
“For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.” (Romans chapter 12 verses 3)
Faith is about what someone believes
When you have the privilege to question some persons about the subject of faith, they can’t tell they actually have faith or not. They believe that one claiming to have faith, he or she should experience a certain feeling within or outside the person for a prove he or she has faith. Little do they know that faith is never about how anyone feels. Faith is about what someone believes.
In the chaos where faith seem to drained, when you have the opportunity to interact with people and ask them how they are doing, their responds is always, “It is well.” That is faith been released. But to some it is a habit he or she might have grown up with. Saying it is well. To them it is about confessing positively but they never realized that was faith word been released. It do work out for them as they confessed even when they have little or no knowledge about the subject of faith and its operations.
No individual can depend on any another for him or her faith to grow
According to the scripture above, if everyone has a measure of faith that simply means everyone has the responsibility to deploy his or her faith to work. There is no one who has that audacity to act on behalf of another person’s faith. It is an individual’s responsibility to make his or her faith work. No individual can depend on any another for him or her faith to grow. It is an individual’s power to nurture and grow one’s faith into action that brings tremendous impacts.
People exercise faith yet they are not aware they are exercising faith. I have seen young men who never prepared their meal as long as I know them. They always believe in going out in search of what to eat to quench their hunger. They have jumped from one restaurant to the other to order food to eat. Walking into a restaurant, you order for a food you do not know who cooked. You are not aware of what was used to prepare the food. They dished out the food with a plate you do not know how many people who must have eaten on the same plate. You did not know what was used to prepare the meal. Because you are hungry and you need to quench the hunger, you then believe that, that very meal will be ok for you. You believe that meal will be ok in your system without harm. That is faith in action.
Faith is the driving force of life that brings hope for a beautiful tomorrow.
Faith is the anchor of life. We live each day with the anticipation to see another breaking of the day. We live each day with the belief that each moment will turn out great to our favour. That is faith. There is no better tomorrow to anyone whose faith has been defeated. Once someone does not operate on faith, he or she is bound to become a victim. Nature is a respecter of no one. Faith is the driving force of life that brings hope for a beautiful tomorrow.
You can’t live on someone’s faith. You have to develop your own faith. It is true as a child your parents can stand for you just as the scenario that always take place in infant baptism. But you can’t teach a child to faith to believe and so much trust his mother’s breast for the breast milk that will sustain him. Even as a child, who taught the child to have confidence when he is thrown on the air that he will land self? Even as a child, he believes his parents who throw him up will not allow him to crash. That is faith at work.
You have the responsibility to fan your faith
It is on this note that everyone gets to realise that no one is your problem. No one has what it takes to hold anyone down. If you believe you are down, then you are down. If you believe you are standing, though you are down but your faith will lift you up to stand on both legs. You can’t assume that things will just occur. You can’t continue to pretend that things will just be fine. You must have the conviction from that depth of your heart things will be alright.
You have the responsibility to fan your faith. You have the responsibility to always keep your faith working. It is in your power and no one can take up such responsibility for you. Everyone is working on his or her faith. People can only encourage you to build up your faith as I am doing right now, but I can’t step into you to work out your faith. It is an individual’s responsibility to take their work into action.
Conclusion
20 – “And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
21 – For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.
22 – But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.” (Mathew chapter 9 verses 20 to 22)
Jesus said to her, it is her faith that made her whole. You that is reading this, your faith has the capacity to make you whole. Your faith in the finished work of Christ Jesus on the cross will surely make you whole from the captivity of the enemy.
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