Your faith is very important

Col 2:11-12

“In him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of the sinful nature, not with a circumcision done by the hands of men but with the circumcision done by Christ, having been buried with him in baptism and raised with him through your faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.” NIV

Your faith is very important. Some people have more confidence in other people’s faith than their own. They have more faith in their Pastor’s faith, or other men of God. But the Scripture above shows clearly that the individual’s faith is important. Here it shows that you became one with Christ through your faith in the power of God. Now that is the greatest miracle you can ever experience, if that happen through your faith, what can’t you have through your faith, absolutely nothing. Jesus said, “if you can believe, all things are possible to him that believes.” 

It is if you can believe. When the woman with the issue of blood was healed, Jesus told her, “daughter thy (your) faith has made thee whole. When blind Bartimeaus was healed of his blindness, Jesus said to him, “thy faith has made thee whole.” When the Samaritan leprous man came back to give thanks, he was told by Jesus, “thy faith hath made whole.” Lastly, when some blind men came and asked Jesus to heal them, he told them, “according to your faith be it done unto you.” 

What I am showing you is this, your faith is very important and get you the results you desire. If you will do the same thing with your faith as those people you look up to did, your faith also will be strong and bring forth the results you desire. What did they do with their faith? 

 1.     They used it, I mean, they exercised it. So matter how small you feel your faith is today, begin to use it, exercise it and your faith muscles will begin to grow stronger and stronger.

 2.     Feed your faith on the word of God for faith comes by hearing the word of God.

 3.     Guard your faith from things or people that will negatively affect your faith.

 4.     Guard also what you say with your mouth, for as the mouth can an instrument for strengthening your faith, it can also be a medium through which your faith leaks out and become weak.