Building our faith is as easy as hearing the Word of God continually.  Romans 10:17 teaches us that, “faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God”, which means that faith always comes when we hear the Word of God.  Even if we’ve only heard it once, it’s enough for faith to come, however it’s a process of hearing and hearing that builds and strengthens our faith.  So, the more we hear the Word, the stronger our faith will be.  It’s not always whether or not we have faith; it’s a matter of whether or not we are activating our faith to work for us.  The words we speak in agreement with the Word of God are what activates our faith. It takes believing and speaking the Word of God to live victorious.

It’s our speaking the Word over our situations that brings the power of God into our lives and changes things, turning things around for our good and brings glory to God.  We can hear and hear and hear the Word of God but if we never speak His Word over our lives there is no power transmitted or released in us or to us for an effectual blessing of His Word.  Faith without words is dead just the same as faith without works is dead (James 2:20).  Our works are an outward expression of our inward trust and love for God and our words are the outward affirmation of that inward trust and love for Him.  Together our works and words result in living a life for God.

Some people may deal with what I would call a false security in their faith.  What I mean is, though they have heard and heard and heard the Word of God, they have not been speaking the Word in their everyday living so they have not activated the power of their words properly.  Proverbs 18:21 tells us that it is the power of the tongue that has life and death and we eat the fruit, or the results, of what we say.

It’s like exercising the muscles in your arm.  If you had several weights before you varying from 3 – 5 -10 -15 -20 -25 + pounds and have not been training, you might be able to pick up the 3 – 5- or maybe even the 10 pound barbell but have trouble picking up that 25 pound barbell.  It’s the same in the spiritual realm too.  If you or I have not been exercising our faith by believe for healing for that headache or back pain  – or for a parking place near the store – or for wisdom to set up a budget to be a good steward of what God has given us – if we have not been training ourselves in these “little” things then maybe, just maybe we have a false security in how strong our faith really is. The time to really build our faith strong is when we are not in a crisis.

Growing our faith is a process – the hearing and hearing is the first part of that process. Speaking that faith is the next part – the part that can move mountains – either bringing mountains of blessings to us or moving mountains of problems away from us.

We learn from Galatians 5:7 that God is not mocked, whatever we sow is what we will also reap.  Spending time reading the Word and learning the Word is sowing the truth and principles of God’s Word into our heart.  Whatever we spend the most time engaged in is the area we will reap in.  Mark 11:22 teaches that we are to “have faith in God”.  The only way we can do that is by knowing His Word; not just the printed Word but also the Living Word-Jesus.

Romans 10:17   So then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.

Matthew 17:20   If you have faith as a (size) of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, “move from here to there, and it will move: and nothing will be impossible for you.

James 2:26   For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

Proverbs 18:21   Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Galatians 6:7   Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap.

Joshua 1:8   This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it.  For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

My prayer this week is that all of us will spend more time in fellowship with our Heavenly Father, reading, hearing, and speaking His Word.