According To Your Faith

For she said within herself, If only I touch His garment, I will be healed. And Jesus, turning and seeing her, said, Take courage, daughter; your faith has helaed you. And the women was healed from that hour.......According to your faith, let it be done to you.

Matthew 9:21,22,27b.

What a record! The Lord opened my eyes afresh this morning as I was on the Word. Faith is not a merely doctrine to preach on, it is a reality to experience. What is impossible is truly possible with the Lord for those who believe. Lord I believe! Help my unbelieve if I ever or slighly doubt your Word.

As I was praying and considering the Lord's work assigned to me within my capacity things seems tough and impossible. The plans are good, but the way to accomplished? At this juncture the Lord spoke to me the verses, "If only I believe.... my faith in the Lord will make a way for the Lord to accomplish it." And He does according to our faith. Yes, according to my faith. Lord, strengthen my faith.

The need is great, be it spiritual or physical. Something spiritual also covers something practical. If practical human affairs are not met, spiritual needs cannot be met either. As much as the Lord is divine yet human, so much more we are human yet divine. The divine life we recieved on regeneration does in no way annul the physical life nor its existences. Rather, the more divinity we possess the more human we will be. Otherwise it would be awefully mysterious leading to extremism.

Have faith in God for all spiritual or physical needs. His supplying our physical needs is for the spiritual purpose. His caring for us is His caring for Himself, for in us He moves and lives and does things to fulfil His purpose. Our existence is for Him, our welfare is for Him, and everything pertaining us pertains Him too. He lives in us, through us, for Him. So trust in God for all affairs of life, He cares and ever will. Believe and have faith, and it will be done.

Faith is Christ Himself inwrought into us, the believers, to believe into Him and for His will to be done on the earth. It is a gift of God yet to be treasured and exercised for the Lord's purpose. Such faith is already in the Body of Christ. When one joins himself to the Lord and His Body, he is positioned rightly to receive the heavenly blessings in whatever form. And the goal of such blessings of faith is to build up the Body of Christ. Let us have faith in God, and let us be always one with the Body to receive the heavenly blessings in faith.