The Spirit of Faith

And having the same spirit of faith according to that which is written, “I believed, therefore I spoke,” we also believe, therefore we also speak. 2 Cor. 4:13 

The phrase the Spirit of Faith is used only one time in the Bible but it has tremendous significance for the subjective experience of the believers in substantiating the things of God. This spirit of faith is the mingled spirit of the believers through which the Spirit can be directly touched by the human spirit. Ignorance of this great matter would result in a great loss in the life of the believers. By the Lord's mercy, I have been enlightened to see this spirit of faith in a clear way. Many of my doubts about the reality of the spiritual fact have been cleared by this one point of truth, the spirit of faith. What a great revelation! What a great release!

Excerpts from "The Intrinsic Significance of Faith," msg 3, God's Economy in Faith, HWMR on the exercise of the spirit of faith is marvelous yet mysterious.

1. We must exercise our spirit of faith to believe in the fact that God is love—1 John 4:8.
2. We must exercise our spirit of faith to believe in the fact that God’s grace is sufficient—2 Cor. 12:9.
3. We must exercise our spirit of faith to believe in the fact that Christ is able to save us to the uttermost—Heb. 7:25.
4. We must exercise our spirit of faith to believe in the fact that we are in Christ, that Christ is in us, and that we and Christ are one—1 Cor. 1:30; Col.1:27; John 14:20; 15:5.
5. We must exercise our spirit of faith to believe in the fact that we are God’s children and heirs—Rom. 8:16-17.
6. We must exercise our spirit of faith to believe in the fact that we have been made full in Christ—Col. 2:10.
7. We must exercise our spirit of faith to believe in the fact that we are the temple of the living God and that our body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within us—1 Cor. 3:16; 6:19; 2 Cor. 6:16.

Be sober; watch. Your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking someone to devour. Him withstand, being firm in your faith… 1 Pet. 5:8-9

1. We withstand the devil by being firm in our subjective faith in God’s protecting power and loving concern—1 Pet. 5:8-9:
2. We must exercise our spirit of faith to believe that the Lord was manifested for the purpose of destroying the works of the devil—1 John 3:8.
3. We must exercise our spirit of faith to believe that the Lord’s death has destroyed him who has the might of death, the devil—Heb. 2:14.
4. We must exercise our spirit of faith to believe that the Lord’s resurrection has put Satan to shame; the resurrection life is a life that cannot be touched by death, that transcends death, that is beyond the boundary of death, that comes out of death, and that death cannot hold—Acts 2:23-24; Phil. 3:10; Col. 2:12-15, 20; 3:1; John 14:30.
5. We must exercise our spirit of faith to believe that the ascension of the Lord has put Him far above the power of Satan—Eph. 1:20-22; 2:6; 6:11, 13.
6. We must exercise our spirit of faith to believe that the victory of the Lord is complete and that our whole life is included in this victory; we must see that we have already overcome and that we fight from a position of victory in order to maintain our victory; we can overcome because we are all included in the Lord as the leading Overcomer; He is the Head, center, reality, life, and nature of the man-child, and the manchild as the following overcomers is the Lord’s Body—Rev. 3:21; 12:5.

This portion of the ministry has very much strengthened my faith in the Lord concerning my own Christian life, church life, and service life. The impossible is possible with the spirit of faith! I too have my personal sturggles as much as I struggle collectively with the brothers in my locality for the Lord's work, yet the Lord's word concerning faith is so so encouraging. It is not merely a teaching, but that which can be practiced in reality. Halleluijah! His words and His works go together hand in hand.

This morning a brother also called me to consdier together the new post that has come on his path in his professional carreer. I encouraged him to take it as it is from the Lord. In fact, I reckon that it must be from the Lord. But he has had many bad experiences in the past that drove him to depression and lost all his self-confidence. In fact, no confidence in the self is the best foundation one needs to trust in Lord desperately and absolutely. But I fellowshipped with him the fresh enojoyment of the Lord I have been enjoying the past few days, the spirit of faith. Drawing an example from the life of King Solomon in building the temp of God, he himself had asked for wisdom and understanding from God and God granted his prayer! Besides, God also gave him all the manpower and the materials needed to build the temple. Though there were multitudes who actually built the temple and Solomon just oversaw the work, it was termed as Solomon built the temple. Because God's chose him to be the one who build the temple and gave him wisdom and understanding, and everything needed to build the temple. In a similar manner, when God assigns us His task, He will porvide the means to accomplish the task. Apparently, the task is ours, but actually it is the Lord's, and are being carried out through His provision.

Praise the Lord for this great wonder of the world, "the spirit of God!" What a spiritual dicovery! Exercise the spirit of faith!