The Secret to Great Faith!

Well it has been almost 3 months exactly since my last Post, and now that Fall is almost upon us what better time to refresh yourself for the rest of the year than in Autumn!

Autumn is a time where leaves fall off trees, grass begins to wither and weather begins to gain a crispness to it's bite. Autumn is my favorite season and I personally believe it’s God’s way of cleaning out the old and preparing the world for the new; and the newness comes in the form of spring and summer!

As much as we probably don’t think about it in this manner, somehow unconsciously we "have faith" in the fact that next spring and summer will come and so we go with the flow of life by fall cleaning, hibernating, and awaiting the newness and freshness of next year!

"Having faith" in something or anything seems to be an automatic process in life! We seem to "have faith" in so many things in life, our jobs, our friends, ourselves, and even our money; I mean doesn’t the Bible tell us that without faith it is impossible to please God? Well yes it does, but what we forget is that that faith is not in things, but in God Himself!

Hebrews 11:6 says, “And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.” It is a lack of faith that makes it impossible to please God! And we all know that according to Romans 1:16, “The righteous shall live by faith!” The Greek grammatical structure for this scripture is, “The righteous, by faith shall live” This tells me that I can only live or have life in abundance when I have faith in God!

As many godly men and women as there were in the Bible, noted Pastor, author and Bible scholar Joseph Prince reminds us that there were only two people (besides Abraham) in the entire Bible who Jesus said had “great faith,” the Roman centurion who came and said his servant was at home paralyzed and suffering, and asked Jesus to just speak the word and he would go and believe that his servant would be healed, and the Syro-Phoenician women who had a demon-possessed daughter and asked Jesus to cast the devil out of her. These two people who weren’t your average disciple or follower of Jesus and they didn’t appear to be overtly religious or extreme followers, they weren’t even Jewish; but Jesus Himself noted that they had what He called “Great Faith,” in Him and His sovereignty! So what’s the secret to having “great faith?”  

The secret to great faith is as simple as this…neither one of the those people knew the laws of Moses, neither one of them knew to feel condemned or guilty or that they weren’t even supposed to come to Jesus because they weren’t Jews, they didn’t disqualify themselves because of their sins, all they knew was He was known as being God, being a healer, and being The Messiah! They didn’t take into account anything they did or said, they just stayed Christ-conscious not self-conscious! The secret to GREAT FAITH is to stay Christ-conscious and not self-conscious!

Take your mind off of yourself and your sins and place it on Jesus and His LOVE, GRACE AND MERCY for you, and you too can be known as having GREAT FAITH IN THE EYES OF GOD!

Always In His Grace!

Toinette Neube

Prince, J. (2007). Destined to Reign. Harrison House: Tulsa, Oklahoma.