“But Brother Copeland,” someone might say, “I don’t think I can do that. I’m not like the man who talked to Brother Roberts. I don’t have all kinds of faith. In fact, I don’t think I have any faith at all!”
Are you a Christian?
“Well, yes, I’m a Christian all right. I’ve received Jesus Christ as my LORD and Savior.”
Then you have faith because faith is a “fruit of the spirit” (Galatians 5:22). Spiritual fruit, just like natural fruit, comes from a seed. It’s a product of the seed of God’s WORD which is the seed of your new birth. As 1 Peter 1:23 says, you’ve been born again, “not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.”
The seed of God’s WORD has the fruit of God’s own faith in it. If it were corruptible seed, you might not have gotten as much of that faith as He has. You might have come up short in some way. But God’s WORD is incorruptible seed. It reproduces itself perfectly every time, which means your faith is of the highest quality. It’s the faith of God Himself.
In other words, you have the same faith Jesus has. It’s alive in your spirit right now and it’s there to bring to pass in your life what He promised in John 14:12: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.”
The Right Spiritual Mix
“But if I have such high-quality faith,” you might say, “why isn’t it changing things for me like it did for Jesus? How come I seem to be stuck?”
Maybe you have the same problem the Israelites did in the Old Testament. They got stuck in the wilderness for 40 years because they didn’t put together the right spiritual mix. As Hebrews 4:2 says, “The word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.”
Mixing faith and The WORD is vitally important because it’s the two of them working together that produces results. The best way I know to describe the process is by comparing it to the digestive system of the physical body. When you chew and swallow a bite of food, gastric juices are released in your stomach. The food mixes with those juices and becomes nourishment which results in physical strength.
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