If You Have Faith!

“If You Have Faith!”

“Ah, yes, that is just the point. I have so little faith,” sighs a depressed child of God.

But—dear tried one, do you know that faith is impossible to the old man? That the “old Adam” nature is full of unbelief? Have you not been looking to yourself for faith to obtain everything else from God? “Old Adam faith” to obtain New Adam life and privileges! How foolish we are.

Faith is a gift from God which we must take like all else. “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God” (Eph. 2:8).

Faith is a fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22), and there is a spirit of faith, (2 Cor. 4:13). This can fill us just as fully as a spirit of unbelief.

When we say: “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.” This means this faith was wrought in me and imparted to me by the Holy Spirit.

Moreover, the Lord Jesus Himself is the Author and Finisher of our faith. He begins it and will finish it. The very first act of faith in a soul is the first sign of the divine nature imparted. From this point to the faith that moves mountains may be a long way, but the starting point is the same.

Since faith is the gift of God, and we are to take and to use it, cast the old unbelieving Adam life on the Cross, and take the faith of the Son of God—and nothing will be impossible for you. “Nothing will be impossible for you.” Matt. 17:20 “Have faith in God.” Mark 11:20.