Faith is essentially a spiritual avenue through which God is committed to your person and the issues of your life. Many understand faith to mean a way of committing things to God. But faith is actually committing God to things in our lives.

Faith is committing God to yourself and to the issues of your life – physical, social, family, finance, career, business and what have you. No wonder, the scriptures repeatedly tells us that the just shall live by faith (Habakkuk 2:4, Romans 1:17, Galatians 3:11 and Hebrews 10:38).

“Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him”. Hebrews 10:38

God is saying here that you can’t secure His pleasure without faith in action. It is your faith actively at work that secures His pleasure over the affairs of your life. No wonder, Hebrews 11:6 tells us:

“But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him”.

Faith is a must, in order to secure God’s pleasure in your life. Faith must be in place for God to take an interest in your affairs, and for Him to commit Himself to you. The three Hebrew boys engaged their faith to commit God.

“If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, 0 king”. Daniel 3:17

That’s faith in action – “He’s able to, and He will.” They were not committing the issue to God, they were committing God to the situation. The spirit of faith operates through the words of faith that proceed out of your mouth. God honoured the words of the three Hebrew boys.

“Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, 0 king. He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God”. Daniel 3:24-25

The Son of God was committed by the operation of the mystery of faith. As soon as the boys spoke those words, the Son of God arrived in the fiery furnace to deliver them! The same way, I see God descending into that fiery furnace, where you’ve been choking, to set you free, in Jesus’ name!

They committed God by the mystery of faith, and the king’s word was changed. Every word the devil has spoken against you (known or unknown), shall be changed in your favour, in Jesus’ mighty name!

A woman said to one of our precious women in the church, “Have you ever seen a baby on the back of a snail? Let me see how you will carry a child.” That was a word spoken by a principality! But the mystery of faith came and turned the tables against the adversary. Her baby came, and was brought to the altar as an evidence of the triumph of faith. She committed God through her faith.

It was Daniel’s faith that brought God into the lion’s den to deliver him. When God steps into that issue, your mastery is established. When God is committed, you are supernaturally in command. There was no report that Daniel attempted to push away the stone they rolled against the mouth of the lion’s den; he was just supernaturally in command.

“Who through faith subdued kingdom …” (Hebrews 11:33). 

It’s God’s original intention that we subdue kingdoms by engaging the mystery of faith. Abraham’s faith committed God on the mountain of sacrifice and God showed up (Genesis 22). Every time God shows up, it’s a showdown for the devil. God will show up for you today!

Faith is not just about getting things from God, it’s about committing God’s presence, which puts you in command of things. What was it that put Moses in command in Egypt? God’s presence! Exodus 33:14-15 says:

“And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.

And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence”.

God’s presence so enveloped Moses that he was an impossible case for Pharaoh – no one could touch him! The whole nation of Egypt was under the siege of Mosaic faith.

The world had not seen a man of faith in action; that’s why they make so much noise. Moses stood as one man (not a prayer group and routed the whole of Egypt! He lured them into the Red Sea and finished all of them there (Read Exodus 14)! Behind Moses’ confidence was the ability to see the invisible God by his side. Hebrews 11:27 says:

“By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible”.

Obstacles and challenges will always tremble at His presence. God’s presence is all you need, to bring down the walls of Jericho resisting your advancement. Moses banked absolutely on God’s presence to fulfill his mission. “I know God will do it. I’ve committed it to Him” is nursery level faith! Rather, commit God through your faith.

I’ve always told people, “I’m not afraid of tomorrow, because we didn’t get to where we are today by chance; we got here by God. When my time here on earth is up, the Ministry will be stronger than when I was alive, because whatever the Lord doeth shall be forever.

Proverbs 4:18 also says:

“But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day”.

There’s no room for fear and anxiety, when God is the One at work. Commit God, and then you will experience His rest in your life…

This text is an extract from the book “THE UNLIMITED POWER OF FAITH” written by David O. Oyedepo. 
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