The Faith that I Need

I have been meditating on faith for sometimes and I am all the more strengthened to keep pursuing the hope of stability and satisfaction. Sometimes life throws stuff in your life and at times it very easy to lose faith especially when you are overwhelmed by the feeling of inadequacy and the uncertainty of the future.

Let’s consider this verse Roman 4:18-24

¹⁸ Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”^{[d] 19} Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead—since he was about a hundred years old—and that Sarah’s womb was also dead. ²⁰ Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, ²¹ being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised. ²² This is why “it was credited to him as righteousness.” ²³ The words “it was credited to him” were written not for him alone, ²⁴ but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness—for us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. ²⁵ He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.

What can we learn from this passage?

- 'Without weakening faith', 'not wavering through unbelief',  sometimes we feel like giving up and tired of waiting on our promises in God but Abraham didn’t. We have to understand the struggle is every day, with some days being tougher than others, but the encouraging thing is when we walk boldly we don't weaken our faith. We must have courage and endurance to keep moving forward pursuing our dreams and our promises in God without losing hope. We must be energized everyday not to detour and not to settle. We must have a migration mentality to move from one level of strength to another. And when we meet obstacles, we should all the more keep walking in faith, and when we get into great success, we still need not to settle, and like Abraham we should live in tents, as symbol of willingness to keep moving forward. This meaning we need to exercise the faith by basing our actions on the faith, keeping on hoping even when the natural circumstance is dictating otherwise. This brings strength and gives glory to God.

- being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised...This is now the contentious issue in our world. We have lost faith in God. We wonder whether God can really do it? We have stopped believing in miracles or in the word of God to be true. To deal with this issue, I have learnt to seek God's promises over my life. Having a prophetic word in my life has brought so much order. When God speaks to you as an individual that is the word that we need to hold on. Do you have a word from God? Is there any promise of God that you are holding on? Once we have this, we then should be persuaded that God has power to do what he has promised. Hold on the promises of God over your life.

Faith rests in three things; knowing the Nature of God, His power and His word. His nature as love, as a father and meaning good for us, His power to do as he promised to do, to defy the natural order and his sovereignty, and lastly the Word of God, which is true and must come to pass. Those three things are the things that our faith should rest in.

Finally, we can never please God without faith. This then means we have to discover the kind of faith that Abraham had so that we don't walk in ignorance.