I read an interesting concept in a book called “The Deep Things of God” by Norman Grubb. In the chapter “Faith in Action” he points out “ALL activities of life, material or spiritual are activities of faith…” We are justified by faith (Rom. 5:1), saved by faith (Eph. 2:8), sanctified by faith (Acts 26:18), receive and exercise the gifts of the Spirit by faith (Rom. 12:3,6). Christ dwells in our hearts by faith (Eph. 3:17) we walk by faith (2 Cor. 5:7), and we fight the good fight of faith (1 Tim. 6:12.) There are many more references to what we have, are and do by faith. I encourage you to use a concordance and look them up, list them and put them to memory.
We wake up every morning by faith. There is a testimony often spoken in my church during testimony time, “God woke me up this morning.” I always thought that an unusual thing to testify about, but when you think about it, He did not have to wake you this morning. It could have been time for you to go home to be with Him. You could have died in your sleep. When you think about it that way, He really DID wake you up this morning!
We ate breakfast, lunch and dinner by faith. Think about it. What if our country was going through a drought and food was scarce? What if we were homeless and could not afford food? God provided that food you ate today!
How about something as simple as turning on a light when you enter a dark room? You reach and flip the switch and light fills the room. You flipped the switch believing that the light would come on. Would you flip the switch if light never came on every time you flipped it? You flipped the switch in faith.
Well, you begin to get the idea. When you think about it, everything we do and everything that affects us is there by faith or we deal with it by faith. Since faith is so important it would stand to reason that we should want as much of it as we can get. God gives us a simple way to obtain it in Romans 10:17, “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” Putting the formula in reverse; a believer reads/studies the Bible and learns to hear God and when he knows how to and hears God he gains faith.
When your best friend calls you on the phone, how do you know their voice? You know it because you have heard it often. You heard it so often you recognize it right away. It is the same way with the voice of God. You have to hear Him a lot to recognize His voice. If you want to recognize His voice, read His Word. When you hear and recognize His voice you gain faith. The more you listen to Him by reading His Word, the more your faith grows and the stronger your walk with Him.
