FAITH IS LIFE IN GOD

The Bible says the believer "lives by the faith of the Son of God," not by his own faith (Gal.2:20). I have no faith of my own. Faith is a gift given by the Spirit of God and not something of man's own doing. The Bible says, "Not of works..."--Eph. 2:8-9

People need to know this because they try so hard within themselves to have faith, but nothing happens.

Faith is a gift from God. It is not something you have to strive for. It comes by hearing God speak within your soul and then resting in that Word.

There is no worry or fear in this faith because it comes from God. It is when we try to take control ourselves that fears arise. That's because man was never made to shape his own destiny--that's God's business.

The Bible says that the steps of a righteous man are ordered of the Lord. Who is man then that he should try to direct God? Faith doesn't come by trying!

Man was not made to do his own will. He was made to do God's will. Yet man thinks it is his responsibility to tell God what He ought to do.

Faith lets God do the work and the directing. Man does not even know what to pray for as he ought, according to the Bible, so how could he possibly direct God? (Rom. 8:26)

God doesn't need our direction; He is the director. Faith considers no other alternative.

Faith rests in God and never tries to force its own agenda. Real faith is in God, not in what man can do. Man knows nothing about this faith. He knows about a physical kind of faith--a faith for things but that kind of faith isn't the faith of God. God's faith is Spiritual. It doesn't look to things.

Man's faith is fashioned after his own thoughts and desires. The faith that comes from God only functions within the perimeters of the will of God.

That is why things don't always turn out the way man thinks they should and man ends up disillusioned.

God was wise to make man last. That way there was no one around to tell Him what to do--no one to give Him advice.

When God speaks, all man can say is, “Amen.” 

Warren D. Rogers