EXERCISE YOUR FAITH

Rom 10:17

“So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”

2Th 1:3

“We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;”

Let us look at our passages one more day. Another way to look at the faith that cometh by hearing is to call it head knowledge faith, that is, the faith that is just a head knowledge. This means all the theories about faith is known to such people but that is where it ends. It is in them alright but it has not gone from the head to the heart to make a difference.

Jas 1:25

“But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.”

I believe what will make your faith to grow is when you are a doer of the word of faith not just a hearer. A doer of the word of faith is someone who actively engages his or her faith in something. Another way to illustrate this is to liken having faith by hearing to just eating food. 

When you eat food, your body parts receive nutrients and grow properly but when you go to the gym to work out you develop muscles and you can lift weights. You cannot lift weights because you eat good food, you lift weights because you exercise. It is when you use your faith to lift off burdens that it grows.

Jas 2:14

“What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?”

There is no profiting in a faith that is not exercised after it cometh. So exercise your faith today! How? Engage it on something, believe God for something. You can believe God for the salvation of somebody you know that is not yet saved, or believe God for some material thing.