Your Faith Tank Is Always Full
I got a word at a conference for someone who had been believing God for healing but was in despair and had said on the inside, “My faith tank is out of gas.” The Lord led me to exhort the person that he had been lied to. His tank was full all along! The devil wants you to think that you can use up your faith.
If you could use up your faith, it would be necessary by some means to obtain more faith to replace the faith you used up. You would have to find some kind of faith dispensary. But Jesus never taught that you should try to get more faith. In fact, He taught the opposite – that you just need to use the faith you already have.
Jesus is our best example of someone operating in faith. There is no record that He pulled away from the multitudes because He had used up all the faith in His faith tank and therefore had to get filled up again with more faith before any more healings could occur.
The opposite is true – the more you use your faith, the easier it gets to use your faith! Faith is like your muscles in the natural. I have yet to be in a gym where there are warning signs that you should not work out too hard because you could use up your muscles and have to get more muscles somewhere. Working out doesn’t use up your muscles; it makes your muscles stronger!
I know the feeling of despair that says, “I’ve tried my hardest but I don’t see any improvement.” But the question is, when should you give up on the Word of God and its Author who stands behind it? Is it proper to set a time limit on your healing and declare that divine healing wasn’t workable after all if you don’t see the full manifestation before then? I have seen very quick healings after believing that I received them, but I had to “stand for” other healings over time. It wasn’t that my faith tank was empty, but I was being tempted to get weary in well doing and faint.
Galatians 6:9:
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
2 Thessalonians 3:13:
But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
Fortunately, the Bible gives us the antidote for this.
Hebrews 12:3:
For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
Stop considering your body and start considering Jesus, who paid for the healing of your body!
I realize that the verse above has implications other than divine healing, but I believe that the same principle applies. If you get caught up in how you feel, focusing only on yourself, you can easily get into despair. When you focus on Jesus and God’s Word, you see that you have absolutely no reason to despair.
You DO have faith and you CAN continue to use it. You can never “use it up.”
So when is it time to give up on what God says about your healing, give up on God and give up on His Word? NEVER!
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