Deep Faith

“Anyone who believes and is baptized will be saved. But anyone who refuses to believe will be condemned. These miraculous signs will accompany those who believe: They will cast out demons in my name, and they will speak in new languages. They will be able to handle snakes with safety, and if they drink anything poisonous, it won’t hurt them. They will be able to place their hands on the sick, and they will be healed.””

- Mark 16:16-18

The bible says that the evidence of those who believe are the casting out of demons, the healing of the sick, that you will drink poison and not be harmed.

Are we therefore truly living in faith if we are not seeing these signs evidenced in our lives and our walks with God? if there is so much more how do we deepen our faith to see it manifest?

“Dear friends, you always followed my instructions when I was with you. And now that I am away, it is even more important. Work hard to show the results of your salvation, obeying God with deep reverence and fear. 13For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him.”

- Philippians 2:12-13

We also see that the we are to work out our own salvation with fear and with trembling, if that is the case what is the work we are called to do, how do we work out our salvation, because the bible has told us salvation is for those who believe.

“They replied, “We want to perform God’s works, too. What should we do?”

Jesus told them, “This is the only work God wants from you: Believe in the one he has sent.””

- John 6:28-29

When those they surrounded Jesus and asked what works it is they must do to work the work of God, He told they they simply had to believe. The problem because we claim that we believe but we don’t see it evidenced in our lives then how do we grow are faith, how do we deepen the level of our belief. A lot of us are operating from a head knowledge faith, that believe in God more conceptually than we believe that God will work those things in our lives. We believe He can more than we believe He will. while we are still operation from a faith that is only head strong and not revelatory we cannot move in the authority that faith allows us.

What then will deepen our belief?

“They answered, “Show us a miraculous sign if you want us to believe in you. What can you do?”

- John 6:30

““I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry again. Whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.”

- John 6:35

When Jesus told them to believe, they asked Him what He would do so they could believe in Him and this completely contradicts what faith is. SO many of us are in that place, waiting for signs so that we can believe, when Jesus clearly said that signs evidence of your belief not how belief is earned.

Jesus, is the bread of life and say whoever comes to Him shall never hunger. The bread of God is His word, because in Deuteronomy God showed that man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. We can no longer be on and off with time in the Word, we must live and breathe it, it is only the living Word of God that can activate a faith that is followed by signs. It goes on to say that those who believe shall not thirst, faith comes from feeding on the Word and faith activates the Spirit of God, who is the manifestos of the works of God. It is the Spirit of God who works in yo both to will and to do, but God is not by force you must let Him in through the act of your belief.