Mixing Faith with God’s Word

The word of God was preached to ancient Israel, but it did not really help them. The reason for this is that the word of God was not mixed with faith inside them when they heard it (Hebrews 4:2). They didn’t really believe what God said. 

The word of God contains infinite power. But the power within the word of God is only unlocked in our lives when we believe it. When people do not believe the word of God, then its power will not operate in their lives.

Two ingredients are necessary – the word of God and faith. These two ingredients need to be mixed together in our hearts in order for the power of God’s word to be unleashed in our lives.

Without faith, it is impossible to please God (Hebrews 11:6). It is possible to hear God’s word all the time, but if we don’t believe it, then it won’t help us. 

If you think about it, faith is important for almost everything we do. I trust the car will start if I turn the key. I trust that the food I had for lunch was good to eat. I trust that the chair I’m sitting on won’t suddenly collapse. I trust that my refrigerator will keep the food cold. Operating in this world depends on faith at a basic level.

Just like we need faith to operate in the material realm, so we need faith to operate in the spiritual realm. We must believe that God exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him (Hebrews 11:6). God will do us good and not evil. When we keep his word, he will bless us. The word of God is the pathway to abundant life. When we believe this, we will keep God’s word.

When we believe in material things, like the stability of our chair, we will experience its support. When we believe in the spiritual things of God, we will experience God’s power.

All spiritual things are experienced through faith. Faith unlocks the power of God’s word.

The gospel is the power of God unto salvation. The gospel has the power to cause spiritually dead people to come alive and be born again. But this power only operates when people believe it. When we believed that Jesus died on the cross for our sins and rose again, then we were born again. We experienced the power of God’s word. 

Jesus wants to baptize all his children in the Holy Spirit. But we will only experience the baptism of the Holy Spirit when we believe his word about it. If we don’t believe him, we won’t experience this.

With God all things are possible (Matthew 19:26). All things are possible to the one who believes (Mark 9:23). When we unite faith with God’s word, then the infinite power of God’s word is released and miracles will happen. This is what the Bible says. God does not lie. But we must first know what God is saying, and then we must believe what he said.

The word of God is invisible, spiritual, heavenly reality. We cannot see the word of God with our natural eyes, but we can see it with our spiritual eyes. Faith is evidence of the unseen spiritual reality of God’s word (Hebrews 11:1). It is a substance of this heavenly reality upon the earth. Faith is a hint, sign, or indication that this invisible reality exists and that it will impact the earth. Faith is the beginning manifestation of heaven upon the earth.

The Bible says that we are to walk by faith, not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7). We are to live according to invisible, heavenly reality, not according to what we see with our 5 natural senses. 

Four times in the Bible, it says “the just shall live by faith” (Habakkuk 2:4, Romans 1:17, Galatians 3:11, Hebrews 10:38). Righteous people are those who see invisible things with God and walk according to those things. They do not lean on their own understanding. They rise above that to live supernaturally by communing with God.

Abraham went out, not knowing where he was going (Hebrews 11:8). He dwelled in tents, refusing to live in an earthly city, for he looked for a city that was going to be built by God. That city that he was looking for is the New Jerusalem. Abraham labored well for the manifestation of that city on the earth, although he didn’t see it revealed on earth in his lifetime. That city is the bride of Christ (Revelation 21:2), and today we are much closer to its revelation upon the earth. Let us seek for that city like Abraham did, by walking in faith in God’s word.

We are called to look at unseen things (2 Corinthians 4:18). We will see these things through God’s word, which reveals these things to us. The material things around us are temporary, but the spiritual things are eternal. These invisible things are revealed to us by God’s word. The things that we do on earth according to God’s word will have eternal results, and they will ultimately endure forever. All other works will be burned up. Let’s labor to fill the earth with eternal, heavenly realities.

We have a spirit of faith that first believes and then speaks (2 Corinthians 4:13). The spirit of faith sees things in and with God, and then it speaks according to these things. It does not speak out from the carnal mind. The power of life and death is in the tongue (Proverbs 18:21). We are to speak out the word of God. We are not to speak out carnal things. We believe God, and therefore we speak. Then our words are powerful and will bring life rather than death.

With the heart, man believes, and with the mouth, he confesses unto salvation (Romans 10:9-10). Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. When we believe God’s word in our heart and speak it out with our mouths, then we will experience salvation. Salvation is a big word that encompasses many things like health, wholeness, eternal life, and divine blessing. We should not speak out words from Satan, cursing ourselves – “I always fail. I never do anything right. This will never work.” This will produce spiritual death. Instead, we need to believe God’s word first, and then speak. This is operating in the spirit of faith. “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. I am the righteousness of God in Christ. I have all I need according to the riches of Christ’s glory. I am more than a conqueror through Jesus.” We need to believe and speak truth, releasing the power of salvation.

Whatever we bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven. Whatever we loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven (Matthew 18:18). In the original Greek, the tense of the verbs is important. The binding in heaven has already happened, but the binding on earth has not yet happened. Through faith, we see what has already been bound or loosed in the heavens. Then we bind or loose those things on the earth, according to pre-existing heavenly reality. We are not binding and loosing according to our own will, but according to God’s will. Miraculous actions upon the earth begin in God, not with ourselves. We are to speak them out and release God’s kingdom upon the earth.

Peter and John did not have silver and gold to give to the lame beggar. But they had something better – a revelation from God that he would be healed. Peter said, “What I have I give you – in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk” (Acts 3:6). What did Peter have? He had a revelation of heavenly reality that caused a miracle to happen upon the earth. If we can get a revelation of words God wants us to speak or works he wants us to do, then supernatural things will happen .

Faith comes by hearing. But people hear the word of God all the time, but it often doesn’t profit them. We need to mix faith with our hearing. We must not just be hearers of the word, but we must be doers of the word. When we do the word, it shows that we believe it. We need to hear the word with the understanding that God is speaking to me, this is vitally important, and I need to change my life because of it. This is mixing our hearing with faith, and it will cause supernatural results to happen.