Divine order of faith

This is not the kind of faith under discussion here because that one may not be available to all.
However, I am talking about developed faith which is accessible to everyone and by which every saved man should live. Developed faith comes through hearing the word of God (Rom.10:17). You will not get this kind of faith through prayer, fasting, as a gift or any other way. The only prescription for this faith is by hearing the word of God. So please kindly stop praying for faith. The only divinely ordained way to have faith is by hearing God’s word. The emphasis is on the word of God. Not Satan’s word! Not a demon’s word! Not mere man’s word! Not anyone else’s word but the word of God only.
You can hear the word of God being preached by a man or a woman of God or when you read it on your own. The word hearing as used in the above-mentioned scripture means knowing. Now here is the divine order of faith: knowledge, faith, and then experience. These steps are natural and logical.
The first step in the divine order of faith is to know what to believe in. And you know what God says through the written word for His word covers the entire spectrum of human existence.
Know what God says about finances, marriage, politics, health, education, business and any other area of your liking or conflict. Before you believe anything, can you lay down your finger on any one scripture where God’s mind or will concerning that aspect is written? This was Abraham’s kind of faith.
He first heard from God what His will concerning his childbearing was. In other words Abraham first knew about God’s promise to him and then he accepted it as true. God promised Abraham that he would bear a son through his wife Sarah who should inherit his possessions, and not a servant as it appeared.
The natural circumstances of Abraham and Sarah were totally unsupportive to God’s promise as they were very old. This was the first stage in the development of their faith. God’s will concerning their children was clearly revealed to them in the form of a divine promise. Now they had the knowledge, what would they do with it? Accept it believing God to speak the truth or reject it in view of their impossible natural circumstances? This is always the dilemma of faith. What to do with the revealed will of God.
If you accept it and claim it despite the existence of contrary evidence, that is faith.
And by so doing you please God. But if you reject it based on natural contrary evidence, that is unbelief and you label God a liar.
Isaiah presented this dilemma when he said, ‘who has believed our report?’ (Isa. 53:1). Whose report are you going to believe in regard to your problems?
God’s or man’s or the situation’s seeming impossibility? Abraham chose to believe God’s promise as he was fully convinced that what God had promised he was able to perform. What did his faith eventually produce? The son Isaac. Isaac was the output or the physical manifestation of his faith in God’s promise.
Thus knowledge of God’s promise produced faith and when faith in God’s promises matured it produced an experience. Faith is the means to translate spiritual knowledge of God’s promises into a physical experience.
In fact the whole process of Christian life is to materialise the spiritual promises of God. Do you identify with this last statement or you are just full of knowledge without experience? Faith is the missing link.
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