Increase Christian Faith
In the New Testament, Jesus said: Template:Green</big></big>(John 14:12)
How do you grow faith -- to have increasing faith in the guidance of the Spirit of Christ.
The only mediator between God and men, is the man Christ Jesus; He mediates for you. So how can you have increasing faith? Here's how.
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Steps
- Feed your faith: receive a measure of faith from God, through receiving the Word of God -- by studying the Bible. According to Romans 10:17, "So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God."
- Faith does not come mainly by praying, begging or fasting or Daniel and Romans 10:17 would only be a suggestion.
- The Bible does say "pray always"; so, an attitude of prayer is essential, but faith comes by hearing and then applying the Word of God.
- You must continue to read and study the Word of God (The Bible) so that your faith will grow. II Thessalonians 1:3, "your faith grows exceedingly." by living in God's promises in the Bible.
- Check the Bible where it says Jesus Christ had the [full] faith of God without measure. He is the living word of God. Faith is called a "fruit of the Holy Spirit" that Jesus promised to send after he went to the Father. This may be noticed in the reborn person's spirit even at difficult times; not just on your best days:
~ "...the fruit of the Holy Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ..."</i></big>. - Be born again as a believer by repentance (turning around) and continuing in Christ, so that you will receive within you a measure of faith and the Spirit of God. That means that if you have been born again, then you will have some portion of the nature of God as the Word says. So no one has an excuse: Do not think of yourself more highly than you should, but rather think of yourself soberly, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given to [you] each person. (Romans 12:3)
- Let faith arise in you, and it can in the area of unseen things that you believe -- within God's will, so then it can be applied to you and actualized by you. You will see results by faith. This is not just a hope; it is the way of God for access to the things of God.
- Get People to Accept That You're a Christian How can you love God whom you have not seen -- if you cannot love your brother whom you have seen. God will reveal Himself to you through His people, His love, through His son, His Word, and by the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ.
- Galatians 5:6 says that faith works by love.
- Regain Your Faith in Christ to move problems as mountains is simply trusting God to keep His Word. Believe that God cannot lie. You cannot trust God without knowing Him through fellowship of God's presence. This fellowship is quality time spent alone in study, praise and prayer with God, getting to know Him and His life, way and truth (presented in The Bible).
- Abraham in Romans 4:19-21 had extremely strong faith by 1) Not concentrating on his circumstances, 2) trusting that God could do what God promised and 3) by Praising God.
- Fellowship with Him and as this develops you will come to agree with those who trust God.<i>
~ "Where two or three agree together in my name as touching any thing [in God's will] that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where there are two or three gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them."(Matthew 18:20)</i></big> - Find the Faith to Endure Life's Storms According to the Bible by giving Him the opportunity to reveal Himself to you. You will know Him as He lives in your life. Fellowship with the invisible God gives birth to your spirit with a measure of the kind of faith that can change things in your visible, physical reality.
- Renew Your Faith in Christianity. Faith is expressed by actions not just thoughts and words, as you believe then you can receive through that, and then you will seek results like you expect real outcomes as you have expectations of favor with God. God told Joshua that we must be faithful to the scriptures: <i>
~ "Never stop meditating on these teachings. You must think about them night and day so that you will faithfully do what is in them.
Only then will you prosper and succeed." (Joshua 1:8)</i></big>.- Notice in Mark 9:23 that Jesus said that all things are possible to him that believes. "To believe" is a verb and requires action. If no action were necessary, Jesus would have said, "All things are possible to him that has faith." Faith is a noun. Faith is a gift to us from God.
- Be Who God Wants You to Be. That meditation on the Word then reveals how to act upon the Word. Your confessing, testifying of the Word and things of God is part of that prayer and meditation. When you read, digest and speak the Word to yourself, you are meditating on the Word.
- Build your faith by saying one thing and thinking that same thing and acting it out honestly, not by just pretending. God's Word is already happening but not for you unless you truly believe it. What you meditate upon consists (is formed) of and constitutes (forms) what you believe: <i>
"Be careful of what you think.
What you think determines what you do.
Be careful what you do with your opportunity.
Those actions determine your faith, identity and character.
Be careful of those aspects of your character, for they determine what occupies your being.
That content occupying your being determines who you are.
So, it is true that: 'We become what we think about.'"</i></big> (Based on a common saying.) - Edify yourself through faith which is also developed through praying in the language of the spirit (Jude 20). *Praying in other tongues is a kind of spiritual exercising according to the New Testament.
- Spend time each day, Stop Being Lazy when It Comes to Praying and Talking to God and meditating in the Word in your native language and also in other tongues, and you can keep your spirit active instead of being passive. Scriptures say:<i>
~ Template:Green</i></big> (Jude 1:20) - Let God inhabit your meditations and praises and grow in your being. Meditating on the Word and agreeing together can cause you to be able to believe God's Word enough to act upon it in faith.
- Refuse to accept doubt. Begin to praise God when negative thinking comes to your mind then replace that with praising God. If you do believe Him, then you will have plenty of praise for Him. He lives in and through His people who believe Him:
<i> ~ "God inhabits the praises of Israel [his people, the believers who do His will]."</i></big> - Investigate why God inhabits the praises of His people: It was an honor to God, that the tabernacle tent made way for the temple of stone, but now He is within you.
- So, the tabernacle makes way for the faithful spirit as God's favored dwelling:
- But the universe is God's temple; so, what reason then is there for a temple in the human spirit?
- Heaven is his throne, the earth is his footstool; also, none of man's service can profit Him, yet he seeks the faithful to serve him.
- So, the tabernacle makes way for the faithful spirit as God's favored dwelling:
- Follow Jesus by faith into the active nature of Christ in the chosen and anointed life, way and the truth: so the redeemed, contrite, faithful human spirit may represent his favored temple that He wants to inhabit.
Tips
- In extremely difficult times when God seems to be unfaithful, when your faith is breaking, then God is actually making your faith stronger. You will be stronger if you win over the temptation to doubt Him.
- Promote success in your lives and events by the development of your faith through meditation in the Word and confession of (speaking) the Word (holy scriptures).
- Faith includes loving one another as He gives you His love... as He said, "It is necessary that I go away and send the Holy Spirit to you to stay with you forever". Share his incredible love and spirit with others.
- Very good steps of faith can lead to confidence in your religion.
Warnings
- Be aware of something that Solomon said, "in all your getting get wisdom" -- but faith in God is not usually by hearing just any wisdom or philosophy which may be in contravention of The Bible, but by agreeing together upon the Word of God in The Bible it shall be done, according to His will and Word...
- Do not think that you can increase faith by being angry at unbelievers or hating people.
- You can be angry at wrongs while allowing the Holy Spirit and the Gospel to guide you, by studying the Bible and applying the Word of God in love. Be kind. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. Jesus said.
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