THE FAITH THAT WORKS -Part 1

Our relationship with the Lord is dependent on faith, for without faith it is impossible (not difficult) to please God (Hebrews. 11:6)
Faith is what brings the things God has provided for us from the spiritual realm into the physical realm (Hebrews. 11:1).
Our faith is the victory that enables us to overcome the world (1 John 5:4). For whatever is not of faith is sin (Romans 14:23).
Everything the Lord does for us is accessed through faith for it is written, The just shall live by faith (Romans 1:17).
Everyone has faith since we are created in God's image, but There is a difference between human faith and God's faith.

Human faith is sensual, based on the 5 senses. Human faith can only believe what it can see, taste, hear, smell, or feel; it’s limited to the five senses. Using natural human faith, we can sit in a chair. We drive in cars when we don’t fully understand how they work, and we don’t know the  drivers, but we trust that everything will be okay. We buy and consume foods without knowing who prepared them....That takes human faith, which God gave to every person.

But God's faith is based on His word
When it comes to God, we have to believe things that we cannot see. You have not seen God or the devil. You have not seen heaven or hell. You have not seen sin; therefore, you would not know what you would look like if your sins were taken away. However, you have to believe in all these things to be born again. How can you believe in things you cannot see? The answer is that you cannot believe in invisible things with human faith. You need God’s supernatural faith.

That is why with human faith, you will never dare to sit on a chair whose legs are made of paper, you won't ride in a car whose driver is mental...
At salvation, God gives us the measure of faith (Romans 12:3) not"a measure"

In the following Passages, Matthew 23:32; Romans 12:3; Ephesians 4:7; Ephesians 4:13; Ephesians 4:16, the same Greek word is used for the expression "the measure".

Once we receive God’s supernatural faith at salvation, it doesn’t leave us. Galatians 5:22-23 says, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, FAITH, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law” (emphasis mine). Faith becomes a permanent part of our born-again spirits. The truth is, it is always present. There is no lack of faith within any true Christian. There is just a lack of knowing and using what God has already given us.

We sometimes use the God kind of faith that is present in our spirits and other times we don’t. That is why I  believe Jesus told the disciples the parable of the master and his servant in Luke 17:5-9 when the disciples asked Jesus to increase their faith.

To further buttress this topic, we'll use the following passage to illustrate it.
2Peter 1:1 From: Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus, the Messiah. To: Those who have received faith that is as valuable as ours through the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus the Messiah. 
We can understand the following from this passage:

1. If you are born again, the faith you have, you received it.The verb receive used here is to from the Greek word lagchanō which means to obtain by lot, to receive by divine allotment or by the act of God. Lots of people are trying to believe God with their own strenght and work instead of just putting their trust in what Jesus Christ did for them at the cross.
2. That faith is as valuable as that of the early apostles! If sold at the faith market, it will be bought at the same price, because it is of the same quality, same quantity which means it has the same ability! Waoh! What a merciful and impartial Father we have! So what Peter did with his faith, we can do same because it is of same value, same quality, it has the same potency.
3. The third thing we can get from this passages is that we got that faith through  Jesus' own righteousness, not through your own merit. It  is not based on your own merit or effort, that's why the quality or quantity of that faith has nothing to do with you (what a relief! praise God!) No wonder Ephesians 4:7 called it"a grace"  "a gift of Christ". It is an unmerited favour. What influenced the measure or quality of the faith given to you when you became born again is the finished work of Christ and we know that the Father was well pleased with His son Jesus.

Just like brother Andrew Wommack (www.awmi.net)  will say, a Christian does not havea faith problem, but just a knowledge problem.

The difference between those we sometime erroneously say have a "great faith" and those we think have a "small faith"is just in the use of that same measure of faith given to them by God at salvation. (Hebrews 5:14)

It like two persons using the same phone, the person that to yo took the pain to study the manufacturer manual will surely be the one that will maximize the usage of that phone.

So quit asking God to give you more faith, go to the word of God and learn more how to maximize the faith given to you.

....To be continued