Measuring Faith !

MEASURING FAITH : "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 to every man the measure of faith." (Romans 12:3). It is true that God has dealt to every man, lady you are included the measure of faith. But He gave that faith to us in His Word. So the only way you can measure your faith is to measure the amount Of Word that is in you. You don't start out with all of God's faith. You start With the Word you know, usually a small amount. It grows, you add to it, and you hold fast to it. It grows within you. When Jesus said, "Except you receive the kingdom as a little child," He was referring to you receiving it into your human spirit [heart] as a seed. It is small--- less than all the other seeds when you receive it. But it grows and becomes the greatest of all. The kingdom of God within you grows as your faith grows. God is a God of faith. He shares that faith with us through His written Word. Faith pleases God. I believe faith in action is God's personality in manifestation through you..." Without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him." (Hebrews 11:6). It takes faith to please God, because God is not pleased unless we are operating in His laws of faith. The Lord faith is God's law. The apostle Paul spoke of this in (Romans 3:27). Where is boasting then ? It is excluded. By what law ? Of works? Allow me to paraphrase right here, the law works is the Mosaic law. "Nay or No: but by the law of faith." Paul the apostle calls faith a law. Actually, we could say it this way: Faith Is the Law of the New Covenant. Works were the law Of the Old Covenant, but faith is the law of the New Covenant. Remember, I said faith in action is God's personality in manifestation. (Hebrews 11:1) says it this way. FAITH---GOD'S SUBSTANCE : "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." (Hebrews 11:1) faith is the substance or the title deed of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Substance is the raw material, or the then that would cause the manifestation. Now let's go to Hebrews, chapter 1. "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the Word of his Power, when he had my himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high." (Hebrews 1:1- 3). Notice the phrase in verse 2, ... By WHOM also he made the worlds. It refers to (Jesus) the Word of God. He said ,... His Son... By whom also he made the worlds. And Jesus was the Word of God on the earth. John says the word became flesh and dwelt among us. So he is referring to Jesus as the Son and the word in this Scripture. "Who being the brightness of his glory" (God's glory), and the express image of his person... The phrase express image really means the exact expression of God's person. The Word of God, or Jesus, was the exact expression of God's substance. EXPRESSED IMAGE : Do you want to know what God is like ? Jesus said, ... He that hath seen me hath seen the Father... (John 14:9). ... The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: fall what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise (John 5:19). So Jesus was doing just what He saw His Father do. "I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him." (John 8:26). If you want to know why Jesus was so highly developed in His faith. It was because He always spoke that which He heard from His Father. That's how He defeated the devil, and that's how you and I can enforce the devil's defeat. There is more power in God's Word than most people have ever realized. Notice the word person in (Hebrews 1:3), where it says, ... Being... The express image of his person... In other words, Jesus, Or the Word, is the brightness of God's glory, and the express image of God's person. The word person is translated from the very same Greek word that is translated substance in (Hebrews 11:1). You could actually say faith is the person of things hoped for. Jesus was the Word and person form, or the Word personified. We could read (Hebrews 1:3) this way: "Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of God's substance ..." What God was, His Word was. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (John 1:1)