Inherent Faith

Inherent Faith

Throughout the epistles, which actually are the revelations of the new creation, you’ll never find a place where the Holy Spirit expressly instructs the Christian to have faith in God. The reason is quite simple: The just shall live by faith.

To the Christian, faith is a lifestyle. It is the New Testament principle of life for the believer. We are actually never told to have faith in God, because our very life is by faith. God already dealt to every man, according to the Scriptures, the measure of faith. In other words, you already have faith as a Christian. The reason our Lord Jesus had to keep urging people around Him to have faith in God as found in Matthew, Mark and Luke is that those He was addressing at the time weren’t born again.

If you are born again you have faith. God has given to everyone of us in the body of Christ the measure of faith. Notice I didn’t say ‘a measure,’ but ‘the measure’ of faith. That’s because every Christian has faith. We have the exact amount of faith that we require to receive anything, and effect any change in our lives. What you need do is grow your measure of faith.

Faith Is Given To You – Small
When you’re born again, you have faith! God imparts into your spirit the measure of faith. However, that measure is given to you small. God doesn’t give you big faith, He gives you little faith to enable you grow your faith. It’s your responsibility to build your faith strong. The Bible talks about weak faith, little faith, great faith and strong faith.

God gave you the exact amount of faith that He made available to everyone. He has never given anybody any less than He gave to Jesus. We were all given the same measure of faith, but what matters is what we do with it. You can be anything in this world! Understand this: you can have your life under control; your destiny isn’t in the hands of anybody. You can go anywhere you choose to go; have every good thing you desire; live a supernatural life of prosperity and be an all-round success. How? It is by putting your faith to work, for faith always works! Why then do some Christians’ faith not work or yield result? Could the problem be sin?

Sin Is Not The Problem
Some people think the greatest problem in the body of Christ today is that of sin, but that’s not true! When you study the Bible carefully, you’ll discover that the reason Jesus came to die was to deal with the problem of sin. As a believer, sin is no longer your problem. Many Christian struggle with sin in their lives because they are ignorant of God’s word. The death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ brought an end to sin and ushered the believer into a newness of life. That’s why the Bible declares that “…sin shall not have dominion over you” (Romans 6:14).

When you understand that Jesus died for the propitiation of sin and He’s given you a new life that’s superior to satan, sin becomes a thing of the past. Jesus took responsibility, and paid the full penalty for your sins and misdeeds; past, present and future.

You Qualify For God’s Best
The Bible admonishes us to “… be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus” (2 Timothy 2:1). That means we should take advantage of God’s unmerited favour! He has qualified us by Himself to be blessed. It is not our works but His own work on our behalf that has qualified us for this special place. That’s what grace is all about, and Paul the Apostle encourages us to take advantage of it.

God has qualified you to be a partaker of the inheritance of the saints in light (Colossians 1:12). In other words, you’re qualified to receive God’s best, not because of your own works of righteousness but through the grace of Jesus Christ. You need to know that receiving from God is not according to the works that we have done, but according to His grace. That grace is in Christ Jesus. He made us qualify to receive God’s best! Hallelujah!

For your faith to work you must learn not to trust in your human ability or qualification but in Christ. You must trust in the blood of Jesus Christ that speaks better things than the blood of Abel. He’s the reason God cannot not bless you! Settle this truth in your heart: nothing can disqualify you from receiving God’s best, not even your sins! You’re qualified to receive every good thing that God has made ready for all those who are in Christ Jesus. The Bible says, it’s not works, lest any man should boast but through the grace that’s in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2:8-9).