Where’s faith when you need it?

Romans 10:17 – “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” I could tell you about countless difficult and drawn out circumstances over which I have tried to stand firmly in faith until they finally came to pass. Sometimes I made it and sometimes I was weak and began to doubt. But God mercifully came through for me on most of these things, despite my lack of strength to stay faithful.

There are some things in our lives that take a lot of prayer and a lot of faith to overcome. But why is it so hard sometimes to stand in faith for those things?
The American evangelist and preacher D.L. Moody spent many hours praying for faith. He once said, “If all the time I have spent praying for faith was put together, it would be months. I thought that someday faith was going to come down and strike me like lightening. But faith did not come. Then one day I read in the 10th chapter of Romans, ‘So then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.’ I now opened my Bible and began to read God’s Word and faith has been growing ever since.”



Much of what we believers describe as ‘faith’ has nothing to do with Biblical faith. Our faith must not be based on emotion, or want, and not on the latest exciting ideas or revival. But it must be centered on God’s Word, on Jesus Christ, His death and resurrection, His salvation. The Living Word is the everlasting love of God that has been poured out upon our lives. Let’s read, hear, apply and live the Word today, and we will grow strong in faith!

“Anyone who wanders away from this teaching has no relationship with God. But anyone who remains in the teaching of Christ has a relationship with both the Father and the Son.” (2 John 1:9).