Increase Your Faith — How To Believe For the Impossible (Part 1 of 2)

Editor’s note:  this post is a few years old, and for a more recent revision and update of it, it’s highly encouraged you read this version on my new personal site at this link.  Because a large number of our search engine hits lead to this page, I thought you should know there’s a more recent update to read if you’re interested in this subject matter.

I’ve written entries before concerning how to have faith, or how to increase it. I honestly don’t think faith is a subject that can be exhausted, but all of us can use continual reminders. So allow me to present a simple and practical way to increase your faith for believing for the impossible.  This post will deal with a lot of personal experience, and next week’s follow-up will delve into detailed Scriptures on the subject. This will be long, but not too deep.

First, let me establish that it’s NOT true that all believers have an “equal amount” of faith. Baby Christians for example, would have a hard time believing God–or you–if you spoke to them something on His behalf—if you told them grand supernatural things that God was going to do using them. Whereas someone who’s older and more mature in the Lord, should have been stretched and gone through enough experiences in life that he could see for himself in his own life how God’s promises are yes and amen in Him (2 Cor 2:20).

Each of us begins at the point we’re saved, with an equal measure of faith, but from then on the believer is shaped by experiences, how much of the Word of God they choose to eat—they can eat it in bites, or they can devour it.  Individuals can have the faith to be saved, and be converted at the same point in time, and some out-pace others by leaps and bounds as to the depths in God they choose to go into, while others drag their feet and never leave their diapers behind.

That being said, I’m writing this to anyone who wants more faith. What is the simplest and most obvious way to increase your faith? Trials and tests. Great faith comes by great tests. It doesn’t come just by feeding on God’s Word. Nor does it come from listening to great preaching podcasts or mp3s, or reading a lot of books by faith teachers. The potential for great faith comes by hearing the Word of Christ (Romans 10:17).

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