Faith is engaging the Word to enforce the delivery of your desire (John 2:5-11). Whatever He tells you to do, do it. No matter how crazy it may sound, do it, and your desire will be delivered. John 2:5 says:

“His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it”.

Jesus said to them in John 2:7:

“.. Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim”.

It made no sense, but they did it any way and the result came. Your own result is coming!

Sharing Responsibility

Faith is sharing responsibility with God in the light of scriptures, in order to take delivery of your desired future.

“Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat? They answered him, No. And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes”. John 21:5-6

In other words, “This is what to do to commit My faithfulness…” and they did it. The slogan, “God will do it” is not a complete truth. Knowing and doing your part is what commits God to doing anything for you. Until your part is done, God is not committed. Faith is accepting spiritual responsibility, in order to commit God’s integrity.

Faith is not, “God will do it.” Faith is doing what God says, to commit Him to do it. Doing what God says to commit Him is the complete truth about faith.

Faith, therefore, is not just believing God; it is obeying God, to prove that you believe Him. James 2:26 says:

“For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also”.

Abraham was justified by works. Show me your fais without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. Faith is obeying God to prove that you believe Him, so as to commit fim to perform His Words.

In Romans 4:17-21 we read:

“(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but  was strong in faith, giving glory to God; And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform”.

You can know when faith is at work and when it is not. Faith is not just believing what God has said, it is essentially doing what He has said, to prove that you believe it.

Again, let’s see faith at work in John chapter two. Jesus told the servants to fill the water pots with water; like dummies, they were publicly filling the pots with water. Then He gave them another instruction in John 2:8:

“…Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it”.

They never asked any questions! They filled the cup and served the chairman. He took it, and the wine was of a better quality than the one they had bought with money. Note that in all this, there was no screaming, no crying, no gyrating and no jumping! It was simply faith in action through practical obedience – “Whatever he tells you to do, do it.”

So, faith is not just believing the Word; the devil also believes and trembles (James 2:19). Just being in agreement with God is not faith. Putting God’s Word to work, with an assurance in your heart that God is faithful, is faith. Hebrews 11:11 says:

“Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised”.

Note also that faith is not just saying things, faith is doing things. Faith is doing what is commanded, not just saying what is commanded. Saying it is good, but doing it is the real thing!..

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