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HELEN SANDERS
3-3-2022
HOW DO YOU INCREASE FAITH?
I remember one of my children saying to me, “What would we do without your faith mother?” My response was, “You need your own faith. You can’t always depend on me to be there.”
As parents we must teach our children how to walk by faith. There is nothing more precious than to see a young child pray for their parents and see God touch the situation. Children mimic what we do. If we have faith, they will learn faith. If we have fear, then they will learn fear.
I remember a situation when I was young. My sister had five children, and I was babysitting them. There was a bad electrical storm, and they were scared as the lightning was striking close by. In my sister’s upstairs was a loft with a sealed window overlooking the front yard. Now, I am not particularly fond of lightning and learned very young to respect it, but I wanted to teach my nieces and nephews to not fear lightning but respect it. I had all of them sit on the loft, look out the window, and watch the storm and the lightning. They could see the lightning safely from inside the house and knew it would not touch them. They learned to not fear it, but to respect it.
Faith is like that. We learn that we do not have to fear what Satan throws at us. We respect God and his promises and take Him at His word. He overrides anything that Satan can try to put on us. Faith is built by our being put into situations that require faith! But if you do not have the promises (scripture) stored up in your spirit man you will not have any weapons to fight the fear.
In Romans 10:17 it says, “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” We must listen to the word of God to build our faith. It is as simple as that. Yet, without believing what we hear, we still do not have faith.
A simple definition of faith is just believing God meant what He said. You can trust God and His word every time over what anyone else may say. People try to make something so simple to be difficult.
Do you need healing? Well, find a scripture that tells you healing is yours and confess it over yourself. If you need finances, find a scripture that says God will supply all your need and confess it over yourself. If you need direction, then find a scripture that says that God gives you wisdom and will guide you and confess it over yourself. Do this with every need and confess the scripture over yourself. God’s promises are like gold. You must dig for them, but once found they are more valuable than gold.
Read the promises and believe them my friend and your faith will be stronger than ever. Faith is like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets. So, start today if you are not doing it already to build that faith muscle up! I have never regretted it, and neither will you.
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