Every Day With Jesus Devotional, January 9, 2023

 Every Day With Jesus Devotional

January 9: How Does Faith Increase? 

Luke 17:5-10

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Luke 27:5-10

The Power of Faith

(Matthew 17:14-21; Mark 9:14-29; Luke 9:37-42)

5And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith {Note: Subject of today's devotional). 6And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree {Note: instead of a sycamine tree, it  could be a mountain, problems, any stubborn persistent problem, etc.}, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.

Note:  Faith is a gift given to every believer by grace {Romans 12:3 "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 {given} to every man the measure {measure=size of a mustard seed} of faith"}.

7But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat? 8And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink? 9Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not. 10So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.

Pastor Andrew teaches on "And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith"

The apostles requested the same thing from Jesus that millions of Christians ask for today. They want more faith. Jesus stunned them with His answer, just as the truth about faith stuns people today. He said they didn’t need more faith. The faith they had was sufficient to uproot a tree and cast it into the ocean. They just weren’t using the faith they had. (v. 6.)

Jesus went on to correct a wrong idea most people have about faith. Faith doesn’t just show up and go to work for you. Faith must be told what to do; it is your slave. Masters don’t request slaves to work; they make them work. That’s the way you should view your faith. You don’t passively hope faith will perform or tentatively ask faith to work. You take the authority you have in Jesus and command it!

The reason the disciples didn’t see their faith work harder for them was because they hadn’t demanded more from their faith. They thought believing for miracles was so hard, it took more faith than what they had. That’s not true for them or for us. We have underestimated our slave {Note: faith}. We have thought we needed many slaves; when the truth is, this slave (faith) is so powerful it can accomplish whatever we demand of it.

You know the faith God has given you works because you were born again by it. Now that you have experienced the greatest miracle in this life by the faith God gave you, don’t go back to thinking your needs are too big for your faith. If you got saved by faith, you can be healed, delivered, provided for, and promoted by faith. Put your faith to work today, and don’t let it rest until it gets the job done.

Note:  Very powerful teaching.  This is one to read over and over until we get it right.  Because faith is what moves God.  Faith is what Christianity is all about.  We believe what we have not seen, because we believe God said it and He will do it {Numbers 23:19 "God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?".} Wow!

 Note: When we command faith to do what we ask it to do, in the Name of Yeshua/Jesus, assuming it is in alignment with the will of God, then we just step out and believe it is done.  This is an indication that we believe and trust in God and His promises {His Word, His will for us}.  We are letting Him know.  We are "walking by faith and not by sight" - 2 Corinthians 5:7.  And He sees it and rewards us.  "God is good all the time, all the time, God is good"!!!

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Devotional by Pastor Andrew Wommack

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