Should I Have Faith in My Faith?

No.  You should have faith in God (Mark 11:22).

The problem with trying to have faith in your faith is that you will end up introspective, forever asking yourself whether you have enough faith to believe for something.  That is a misplaced focus.  Your focus should be on the God whom you’re believing, not on yourself to see if you’re believing or not or have “enough faith.”  God is faithful to His Word.  It is impossible for God to lie.  Rather than trying to be the author and finisher of your own faith, look to Jesus, who is the real Author and Finisher of your faith (Hebrews 12:2).  Do you think for a minute that God and Jesus teamed up to give you second-rate faith that won’t let you believe your way out of a paper bag?

I can prove to you that you DO have “enough faith.”  That doesn’t mean you’re exercising it, but the potential is there.  God has already given you the measure of faith (Romans 12:3).  He gives every man the same measure.  For Jesus to walk as a real man, He had to be given the same measure of faith you have!  So you DO have enough faith.  So only in that sense, you can have faith in your faith knowing that God has given you enough faith to accomplish anything in your life that needs to be done.

The issue is whether you have renewed your mind with the Word enough so that your mind and your flesh don’t gang up against you and get you to back off about believing for something.

So don’t start running in the circles where “having faith in your faith” leads you.  I suppose the next logical step would be questioning whether you have enough faith to have faith in your faith.  Get your focus off YOU and get it on GOD where it belongs!

In Acts 3:1-16, Peter didn’t struggle to get faith or try to have faith in his faith.  He didn’t say that the faith he struggled to work up caused the crippled man to walk.  He DID say that the faith which is by Him (Jesus) had given the crippled man perfect soundness.

In Matthew 9:27-30, the blind men had faith in what Jesus was able to do, not just a general faith that a miracle would happen that didn’t involve Jesus.  Our faith is in God; it is not just an abstract faith that something will happen just because we believe that it will, as some New Age cultists teach.