Daily Digest: Capstone Capsule

“So Jesus answered and said to them.” HAVE FAITH IN GOD” – Mark 11:22

Faith in God is the catalyst of His DIVINE POWER for IMPACT: “So Jesus answered and said to them.” HAVE FAITH IN GOD. For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says” (Mk.11: 22-23). Faith is the vital impetus for accessing God’s Power and witnessing its Impact on our lives. Faith is not a mere emotion, belief, or feeling; it’s a trust in God’s Power that enables His promises to come to fruition! Faith activates His Power as we connect with Him, believe and act upon His promises, engage in prayer, and seek His Guidance through His Word and the Holy Spirit.

There is a strong, direction relationship of Faith with Power: “And Stephen, FULL of FAITH and POWER, did great wonders and signs among the people” (Acts 6:8). Stephen was full of FAITH and therefore, of the POWER of God, and great miracles were accomplished by him. Faith in God commands the supernatural, bringing the unseen into manifestation: “NOW FAITH is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Heb.11:1). Faith is not presumption or optimism. What assures us that God will act is that He cannot lie or fail to keep His Word (Isa.55:10-11). He will do all He has promised to do!

God’s Realm is supernatural and eternal, where all things are complete and perfect; it is the perennial “NOW” that is accessed only by Faith – the divine ability given to Man to transcend natural realms. Faith enables us to operate in and exercise dominion over the natural – over time, space, and matter. God created the natural realm but is not bound by it. Faith activates our spiritual eyes to “see” the supernatural. God set time in motion, but when He created humankind, He placed within us a yearning for eternity and enabled us to live in both the natural and supernatural. Faith lifts us beyond the limits of the natural.

Trying to believe in God with our intellect alone won’t work. Faith believes for the “impossible.” Paul expressed the link between Faith and Power: “Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of your calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of FAITH with POWER” (2 The.1:11). God instructs that our Faith “should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God” (1Cor.2:5b). Our Faith is only as good as what it rests on! A passive faith is no faith at all. Let’s turn on the switch of Faith and step up into Supernatural Power for God-glorifying Impact!