Living Life with a God Kind of Faith
Living by the God Kind of Faith: How Your Words Are Shaping Your World
What if the single most powerful force available to you as a believer was already residing inside you, waiting to be activated? What if the difference between a life of defeat and a life of victory came down to something as seemingly simple as what you believe in your heart and what you speak with your mouth? These are not rhetorical questions. They are the very questions that the Word of God invites us to wrestle with and ultimately answer.
Faith Is Not an Accident
The application of faith is not something that happens by chance. It is not a feeling that washes over you on a good day or a spiritual lottery ticket you hope gets punched. Faith is a decision. It is a way of life, and the Word of God gives us clear instruction on how to walk in it.
In Mark 11, Jesus curses a fig tree, and the next morning his disciples notice it has withered from the roots. When Peter points it out, Jesus does not launch into a lengthy theological explanation. He simply says, "Have faith in God." Some translations render that phrase as "have the God kind of faith," and that distinction matters enormously.
So what is the God kind of faith? You find the answer at the very beginning of Scripture. In Genesis 1, before anything existed that we can see, touch, or measure, God spoke. He had a picture in his mind, a vision of what he wanted, and he released it through his words. Ten times, twelve times, the pattern repeats: God said, and it was so. The sun still rises every morning not because of physics alone, but because God spoke it into existence and never rescinded the command. That is the God kind of faith. It sees what does not yet exist, believes it, and declares it into being.
Two Places Faith Must Live
The Apostle Paul, writing in Romans 10, points to two locations where the word of faith must reside: the heart and the mouth. These are not interchangeable. The heart must come first. You cannot speak something into existence that you do not genuinely believe. But once the Word of God takes root in your heart, it must find expression through your lips.
Think of it this way. Faith is voice-activated. A smartphone with a voice assistant does nothing until you speak. You can hold it in your hand all day. You can believe with everything in you that it is capable of responding. But until you open your mouth and speak, nothing happens. The same principle applies to faith. Proverbs 18:21 makes it plain that death and life are in the power of the tongue, and that those who love it will eat its fruit. Every word you speak is, in a very real sense, being printed out into your circumstances.
Your Faith Cannot Exceed Your Knowledge
Romans 10:17 reminds us that faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. This means your faith will never rise above your knowledge of what God has promised. If you do not know that Isaiah 53 declares healing was provided through Christ's suffering, you cannot stand on it. If you are unaware that 3 John 1:2 expresses God's desire for you to prosper and be in health, you will never think to believe for it.
This is why filling your heart with the Word of God is not optional for the believer who wants to live victoriously. It is the fuel. It is the raw material from which faith is built. The writer of Psalm 119 tells us that the entrance of God's Word gives light, and Jesus himself declared in John 6:63 that his words are spirit and they are life. There is something that happens when you read Scripture or hear it faithfully preached that defies simple explanation. It changes the atmosphere inside you. It lifts discouragement. It reorients your perspective. It builds something in your inner man that the circumstances of life cannot easily shake.
Holding Fast When Nothing Has Changed
Here is where many believers stumble. They receive prayer. They stand on a promise. And then they look at their body, their bank account, or their situation, and nothing appears different. The temptation in that moment is to conclude that faith did not work.
But the only thing that negates the Word of God in your life is your own mouth. Hebrews 4:14 urges us to hold fast our confession, and it does so in the context of reminding us that Jesus is our great high priest. He is not only the one who intercedes for us at the right hand of the Father, he is, as Hebrews 3:1 describes, the apostle of our confession. He was sent to ensure that what we speak from the Word of God comes to pass. When faith speaks, the Word responds. But we must not waver. We cannot confess healing on Monday and confess sickness on Tuesday and expect results.
What Believers Ought to Confess
There are several categories of confession that belong in the daily vocabulary of every believer. Confess what God has done for you through salvation. Confess what the Holy Spirit is doing in you right now, even when the process is uncomfortable. Confess what you are in Christ: a child of God, a joint heir with Jesus, blessed with every spiritual blessing. Confess what Jesus is doing for you at this very moment at the right hand of the Father, making intercession on your behalf. And confess what God can do through you, because the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead lives in every born-again believer.
The Life That Is Available to You
The life God intends for his people is not a life of quiet resignation to whatever comes. It is a life of bold, Word-based, Spirit-empowered faith that speaks to mountains, stands on promises, and refuses to be moved by what the senses report. The God who spoke light into darkness, who carved dry ground through the sea, who raised the dead, is the same God whose word lives in you.
The question is not whether his promises are true. The question is whether you will believe them deeply enough to say them out loud and keep saying them until you see them come to pass.
That is the God kind of faith. And it is available to you today.
What if the single most powerful force available to you as a believer was already residing inside you, waiting to be activated? What if the difference between a life of defeat and a life of victory came down to something as seemingly simple as what you believe in your heart and what you speak with your mouth? These are not rhetorical questions. They are the very questions that the Word of God invites us to wrestle with and ultimately answer.
Faith Is Not an Accident
The application of faith is not something that happens by chance. It is not a feeling that washes over you on a good day or a spiritual lottery ticket you hope gets punched. Faith is a decision. It is a way of life, and the Word of God gives us clear instruction on how to walk in it.
In Mark 11, Jesus curses a fig tree, and the next morning his disciples notice it has withered from the roots. When Peter points it out, Jesus does not launch into a lengthy theological explanation. He simply says, "Have faith in God." Some translations render that phrase as "have the God kind of faith," and that distinction matters enormously.
So what is the God kind of faith? You find the answer at the very beginning of Scripture. In Genesis 1, before anything existed that we can see, touch, or measure, God spoke. He had a picture in his mind, a vision of what he wanted, and he released it through his words. Ten times, twelve times, the pattern repeats: God said, and it was so. The sun still rises every morning not because of physics alone, but because God spoke it into existence and never rescinded the command. That is the God kind of faith. It sees what does not yet exist, believes it, and declares it into being.
Two Places Faith Must Live
The Apostle Paul, writing in Romans 10, points to two locations where the word of faith must reside: the heart and the mouth. These are not interchangeable. The heart must come first. You cannot speak something into existence that you do not genuinely believe. But once the Word of God takes root in your heart, it must find expression through your lips.
Think of it this way. Faith is voice-activated. A smartphone with a voice assistant does nothing until you speak. You can hold it in your hand all day. You can believe with everything in you that it is capable of responding. But until you open your mouth and speak, nothing happens. The same principle applies to faith. Proverbs 18:21 makes it plain that death and life are in the power of the tongue, and that those who love it will eat its fruit. Every word you speak is, in a very real sense, being printed out into your circumstances.
Your Faith Cannot Exceed Your Knowledge
Romans 10:17 reminds us that faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. This means your faith will never rise above your knowledge of what God has promised. If you do not know that Isaiah 53 declares healing was provided through Christ's suffering, you cannot stand on it. If you are unaware that 3 John 1:2 expresses God's desire for you to prosper and be in health, you will never think to believe for it.
This is why filling your heart with the Word of God is not optional for the believer who wants to live victoriously. It is the fuel. It is the raw material from which faith is built. The writer of Psalm 119 tells us that the entrance of God's Word gives light, and Jesus himself declared in John 6:63 that his words are spirit and they are life. There is something that happens when you read Scripture or hear it faithfully preached that defies simple explanation. It changes the atmosphere inside you. It lifts discouragement. It reorients your perspective. It builds something in your inner man that the circumstances of life cannot easily shake.
Holding Fast When Nothing Has Changed
Here is where many believers stumble. They receive prayer. They stand on a promise. And then they look at their body, their bank account, or their situation, and nothing appears different. The temptation in that moment is to conclude that faith did not work.
But the only thing that negates the Word of God in your life is your own mouth. Hebrews 4:14 urges us to hold fast our confession, and it does so in the context of reminding us that Jesus is our great high priest. He is not only the one who intercedes for us at the right hand of the Father, he is, as Hebrews 3:1 describes, the apostle of our confession. He was sent to ensure that what we speak from the Word of God comes to pass. When faith speaks, the Word responds. But we must not waver. We cannot confess healing on Monday and confess sickness on Tuesday and expect results.
What Believers Ought to Confess
There are several categories of confession that belong in the daily vocabulary of every believer. Confess what God has done for you through salvation. Confess what the Holy Spirit is doing in you right now, even when the process is uncomfortable. Confess what you are in Christ: a child of God, a joint heir with Jesus, blessed with every spiritual blessing. Confess what Jesus is doing for you at this very moment at the right hand of the Father, making intercession on your behalf. And confess what God can do through you, because the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead lives in every born-again believer.
The Life That Is Available to You
The life God intends for his people is not a life of quiet resignation to whatever comes. It is a life of bold, Word-based, Spirit-empowered faith that speaks to mountains, stands on promises, and refuses to be moved by what the senses report. The God who spoke light into darkness, who carved dry ground through the sea, who raised the dead, is the same God whose word lives in you.
The question is not whether his promises are true. The question is whether you will believe them deeply enough to say them out loud and keep saying them until you see them come to pass.
That is the God kind of faith. And it is available to you today.
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