Faith in Your Faith vs. Faith in God
Many Christians get very introspective when it comes to their faith. They’re always trying to figure out if they have “enough faith” for something, as if they’re trying to have faith that their faith will work. Of course, the devil will be the first to tell you that “you don’t have enough faith” for whatever it is you want. The trap is that you can end up trying to have faith in your faith instead of exercising faith in God and His Word. The devil loves to tell people that they’re faith isn’t good enough because they haven’t spent “enough” time studying the Word, praying, fasting, or whatever. His definition of “enough” time is always a little more time than you actually spent lately, no matter how much time it was.
Don’t get me wrong; if you never study the Word, pray or fast you won’t be as strong a Christian as you would be if you did these things. However, here is something for you to consider – how much time did the people healed in the Bible have to “develop their faith?” They did not have Christian books and radio shows, they did not go to faith seminars and they did not have access to countless faith-building videos on the internet. Many of them had just heard of Jesus, yet they received incredible miracles. It can’t be as hard as we’ve sometimes made it out to be!
Jesus didn’t teach, “Have faith in your faith.” He taught, “Have faith in God” (Mark 11:22). Make GOD your focus, not your faith. (If you’ve been taught that this verse is a command to you to have the God kind of faith, please read What Mark 11:22 Really Means for proof that the verse really does mean “Have faith in God.”)
You can tell whether your faith is in God or in your faith by your focus. If the focus is YOU, you are trying to have faith in your faith. If the focus is JESUS and the provision that He already made for your healing, you are exercising faith in God and His Word. Get your focus off YOU and get it onto JESUS. Stop asking yourself how much faith you have and start asking yourself what God has said about the matter in His Word. Then just act on what He said. This is much less stressful than trying to be your own faith meter to determine how big your faith is right now. The people who received healings in the Bible didn’t get all caught up in that. They just acted on the truth that Jesus is the Anointed One and they received from Him and His anointing. Today you have something way better – you don’t just receive from His anointing; you receive healing that was forever paid for when Jesus took your sicknesses before He died and rose again.
Trying to have faith in your faith is thinking, “This will happen just because I believe it will happen.” A far better way to think is, “This will happen because God is faithful to His Word. He backs His Word and HE makes it happen when I believe Him and act on His Word.”
The question should not be, “How big is your faith?” The question should be, “How big is your God?”
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