DAY 28 - LORD, TRANSFORM ME INTO A WOMAN OF MOUNTAIN-MOVING FAITH.
God takes the tiniest bit of faith we have and makes it grow into something big when we act on it. The bible says that "God has dealt to each one a measure of faith" (Romans 12:3). We already have some faith to start with. When we step out in that faith, God increases our faith. In other words, acting in faith begets more faith.
Whether you realise that or not, you are litigation by faith everyday. Each time you go to a doctor, you trust he will do the right thing. How much easier and more certain is it to trust God?
We have no idea what great things God wants to do through us if we would just step out in faith when he asks us to. That's why He let's us go hrouh some difficult times. Times when we feel weak and vulnerable. He allows certain things to happen so that we will turn to Him and give Him our full attention. It's in those times, when we are forced to pray in Greater faith, that our faith grow a stronger.
Praying increases our faith as well because it's how we reach and touch God. Every time we reach out and touch Him in prayer, our lives are healed in some way and uor faith is increased.
PRAYER
Lord, increase my faith. Teach me how to "walk by faith, not by sight" (II Corinthians 5:7). Give me strength to stand strong in Your promises and believe Your every word. I don't want to be like the people who did not profit from hearing the Word because it wasn't mixed with faith (Hebrews 4:2). I know that "faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God" (Romans 10:17). Make my faith increase every time I hear or read Your Word. Help me to believe for Your promises to be fulfilled in me. I pray that the genuineness of my faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even when it is tested by fire, will be glorifying to YOU, Lord (I Peter 1:7).
I know "faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" (Hebrews 11:1). I know I have been "saved through faith," and it is a gift from You (Ephesians 2:8). Increase my faith so that I can pray in power. Give me faith to believe for healing every time I pray for the sick. I don't want to see a need and then not have faith strong enough to pray and believe for the situation to change.
Help me to take the "shield of faith" to "quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one" (Ephesians 6:16). Help me to "ask in faith, with no doubting." For I know that "He who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind." I know that a doubter is double-minded and unstable and will not receive anything from You (James 1:6-8). I know that "whatever is not from faith is sin" (Romans 14:23). I confess any doubt I have as sin before You, and I ask You to forgive me. I don't want to hinder what You want to do in me and through me because of doubt. Increase my faith daily so that I can move mountains in Your name. Amen.
Scripture for Meditation
Hebrews 11:6
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Mark 9:23
And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.”
Matthew 17:20
He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”
Romans 5:1
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
I Peter 1:6-7
In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, 7 so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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