Living in the Faith Lane
by Kenneth Copeland
Have you ever been stuck in traffic on the freeway at rush hour? You’re creeping forward just inches at a time, doing your best to be patient. Then you look over a couple of lanes and see a line of cars zipping past you like you’re sitting still (which, in fact, you are).
What’s your first impulse?
You want to find a way to get into that lane!
On the freeway, everyone wants to be in the fast lane.
In much the same way, when it comes to living, everyone should want to be in the faith lane! As believers, we ought to be enjoying life in such abundance—spiritually, physically, financially and socially—that unsaved people look at us and say, “I want to know how you’re doing this! How do you keep succeeding when the rest of the world is going down the drain?”
“God supplies all of my needs according to His riches in glory,” we’d answer, “and He has plenty of supply for you, too. If you’d like, I can show you how to tap in to it. I can introduce you to Jesus and He’ll tell you what you need to know.”
If God had His way, those kinds of conversations would be going on all the time. Everyone who has been born again would be so BLESSED and such a BLESSING to everyone else that they’d be after us constantly, wanting to hear the secret to our success.
It would be happening, if it weren’t for one thing: A lot of Christians aren’t yet living in the faith lane themselves. They’re saved, all right, but when it comes to the business of day-to-day living, they’re inching along just like everyone else in the world.
Why?
Because living in the faith lane requires faith; and “faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17).
“But most Christians I know go to church,” you might say. “They hear The WORD every week. Doesn’t that mean they have faith?”
No, it doesn’t. People by the millions hear the Bible read and preached, but because they only hear it externally, with their physical ears, they don’t benefit from it. They walk out of church without any more faith than they had when they walked in.
That’s why it’s so important for us, as believers, to listen to God’s voice on the inside, with the ears of our spirit. Faith comes when we hear what God is saying through His written WORD directly to us. It comes not just from listening to Bible verses but from hearing the voice of God speak through them to our own hearts.
“Well, Brother Copeland, I think you’re being a little unrealistic. Not everyone can hear God like that.”
Yes, they can. Jesus confirmed it. He said, “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me” (Revelation 3:20).
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