When you wake up in the morning, you do not expect to lose the force of gravity and float off into space. Gravity is always there and always working. Likewise, you should not think of faith as something that you lose and try to get back. Just like gravity, faith should always be there. Do not pump up your faith at times when you need it. Just keep growing your faith at all times.

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Show Notes:

We tend to think of faith as something we apply in the moment if we want to see something happen or need an answer to prayer. A better concept of faith is illustrated by the force of gravity. Gravity does not turn on or off according to momentary needs. It is always active as a permanent part of our lives. And that is what our faith should be. Of course, faith can trigger a miracle. But that will not happen because you build up your faith at that moment. It happens because you have grown to a level of faith in your walk with God.

Faith grows. It is tested and tried. It is something dwelling in you because you have exercised it consistently in your walk with God. Faith is that which makes the unseen visible. Faith is what God moved in when He spoke the Word that created the universe, making things that are seen out of that which is invisible. God is invisible, and yet Christ visibly manifested the Father into the earth on a continual basis. He did not pump up some faith when someone needed a healing. He simply let the Father impact the physical realm through Him. And people were healed by their own faith in Christ.

If we want to measure our faith, then Christ is our example. His faith was in the Father dwelling in Him, and He manifested the works of the Father. And so our faith is not what we manage to pump up now and then, but rather it is the faith that Christ and the Father are dwelling in us by the Holy Spirit. Faith is a state of being that is constantly manifesting in the world the works of the Holy Spirit. Faith is what we keep appropriating until we are filled up to all the fullness of God, and out of that fullness the Kingdom of God will become more and more visible.

Key Verses:

• Matthew 9:27–29. “It shall be done to you according to your faith.”
• Hebrews 11:1–3. “What is seen was not made out of things which are visible.”
• Hebrews 11:1 (KJV). “Faith is the substance of things hoped for.”
• John 14:16–21. “You will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.”
• Romans 8:11. “If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He … will also give life to your mortal bodies.”
• Ephesians 3:13–19. “Know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.”

Quotes:

• “When we see the created world around us, we see the result of faith—the faith that God moved in when He spoke the Word that created all things throughout the universe.”
• “We need to have a faith that the Kingdom of God surrounds us, is in us, and is to manifest before us on a visible level. And the emanation of that faith must be constant.”
• “We need to build our faith and grow our faith surrounding what the Word of God has said already is. In other words, it is a reality in the realm of spirit, but we need to see it manifest in this visible world.”

Takeaways:

1. Faith is not something temporary that we exercise only at the moment we need it. Faith is actually like gravity, which is manifesting in our lives all day long.
2. Faith is not something we pump up because it has gone flat. It is something we build and grow in a consistent walk with God.
3. Faith is that which makes the unseen visible. And for the Kingdom to manifest daily in our world from the invisible realm requires a faith that is daily manifesting in our lives.

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