What is Faith?
Faith
is simply God-personified.
The
first thought of faith brings to memory the creation story. How the world was
created out of nothing. The totality of everything we have in all the planets,
the galaxies and everything you could ever imagine was created by God through
his spoken word. He calls those things which are not as if they were, that is
faith! I am God, I change not could be changed into I am faith I change not.
Also, as a person I am faith. There was a time when I was not in existence,
there is a present time that am now in existence and there is a distance time
in the future where I will forever exist. The reality of eternal existence is
faith.
What is uncommon faith?
The
above question could be reframe as, what is uncommon God? In reality there is
nothing like common or uncommon faith. All expressions of faith are same in the
eyes of God. For this class, we will differentiate the expressions of faith
using the following yardsticks:
1.
Who manifested the faith? The name of the person who through faith or through
God achieves something is used.
The
faith of Jesus, Moses, Abraham, Esther, Ruth, Stephen, Paul, Joshua, etc
2.
The number of people affected by the manifestation of such faith?
The
5000 thousands that were fed, the four thousand that was fed, Esther and the
whole Israelites saved in Shushan after the decree of extinction, etc
3.
The place where faith is being manifested?
The
faith of Daniel in Babylon, the faith of Jesus Christ at the garden, the faith
of Phillip in Samaria, etc
There
are other yardsticks or differencing method that can used to differentiate the
expressions of faith but we will stop at this juncture here.
How to make uncommon faith achieve uncommon Victory
James
2:17 ‘Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.’
The
story of the town that gathered to pray for rain after months of drought is
surprising because at the prayer venue, only a young boy came with an umbrella.
The boy added work, which is exemplified in the umbrella he carried. He
reasoned that after the prayer the rain will start and he will need an
umbrella.
The
indispensability of adding work to our faith cannot be over emphasized.
For
God to make the woman, he had to wait until Adam sleep. Kindly consider the
time, tenacity and the whole process of creating the world’s most delicate
product ‘a woman’ and then you understand the work God added to himself.
Work
is more than wishing, anybody can wish but you need to go beyond that
Work
is more than opening a door, anybody can open a door but you have to do more
than that
Work
is more than running, anybody can run but you need to do more than run
Work
is more than keeping, anybody can keep things but you need to do more than run
Work
is engaging in activity that shows you believe God to do what you have prayed
for. Work is being a Christian anywhere you are because God expects that of
you.
In
summary, Faith starts from F - Father stayed on I - Immanuel and ends at H -
Holy Spirit.