If you want to have strong faith, surround yourself with the things of faith. We also need to learn to have God in all areas of our lives, to become well-balanced people. Jesus grew in all areas of life-emotional, physical, spiritual, and social. Then the devil can get them off on tangents and into wrong doctrine. A lot of people are so far over in some religious areas that they are out of balance with life. I’m not talking about getting out of balance. God expects us to have some leisure and to enjoy our leisure time, but we’ve got to put God and the things of God first. I don’t do a lot of this kind of reading, but I do a little of it, because I enjoy it. Over the years, I have read dozens of his books and they are just good western writing-no bad situations or language at all. I have found one author in particular I read after. I watch it.īless God, if I haven’t anything else to do-if I’m prayed up, if I don’t have to go preach anywhere- and the Dallas Cowboys are playing, I’m going to be watching them! Another one of my pastimes is reading western stories. (Just be sure they are teaching you in line with God’s Word.) I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with watching television. Listen to people strong in faith-any of the great teachers today. Surround yourself with things of God things that will nurture your faith. Punch the start button of your audio player. We don’t feed faith by reading a steady diet of secular magazines, or viewing a steady diet of secular television. And we must feed our minds and spirits on material that will build faith, not destroy it. We must realize that if we are going to nurture our faith-if we’re going to build it into something that will produce results for us-we must surround ourselves with successful people of God, not negative people. God’s Word says, “Without faith it is impossible to please him” (Heb. They try to stay spiritually alive in that negative atmosphere where people do not believe in the supernatural power of God.
They sit in a church that does not teach the Word, listening to somebody tell them it’s not God’s will to heal, that it’s God’s will for us to be poor, and so forth.
It’s strange to me how many Christians surround themselves with things that cause them to be weak in faith. What you do with your measure of faith after salvation is up to you-but what you do with it determines whether or not you grow in faith. ROMANS 12:3 3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think but to think soberly, according as GOD HATH DEALT TO EVERY MAN THE MEASURE OF FAITH. Not “a” measure of faith “the” measure of faith. Every born-again Christian has received “the” measure of faith mentioned in Romans 12:3. It comes from the following formula: First: Surround yourself with that which produces faith. You can will it all you want-you can try to make it happen all you want-but it’s not going to work that way. The faith I’m talking about does not come from an act of the will. In this lesson, I will give you a formula to help you build strong faith for whatever you need from God.
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But many do not know how to secure faith for the things they need from God. They realize that faith is not just an act of the will of man faith is acting on God’s Word. Acts 14:8–10 Many earnest Christians are asking the question: “How can I build a strong faith?” These people realize that the things they need from God-healing, prosperity, and other blessings -do not come simply because they have been born again. Six Ways to Build Strong Faith And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked: The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. Patent and Trademark Office and therefore may not be duplicated. The Faith Shield is a trademark of Rhema Bible Church, Kenneth Hagin Ministries, Inc., registered with the U.S. Hagin Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the King James Version of the Bible.
Blueprint for Building Strong Faith Kenneth W.