Got Faith?

Did you know that if we want to receive anything from God we are going to have to use our faith. You see, faith is what I like to call, the currency of heaven. God doesn’t use dollars or pesos in exchange for His provisions of salvation, prosperity, and healing. He uses our faith.

Our wonderful heavenly father has, by His grace, provided everything we will ever need. The grace of God is God’s provision given to us freely, based upon nothing that we have done. So God has already provided salvation, healing, and prosperity even though we don’t deserve it and did not earn it. Yet, even though all that we will ever need is sitting right there for the taking, it can only be ours if we use our faith.

Look at Ephesians 2:8: “For by grace are you saved through faith.” Here we see the perfect example of what I’m talking about. Salvation is given to us freely and without works that we do; it is available to us by grace. But at closer inspection that does not mean that you are saved simply because God has provided salvation. For us to receive salvation we must exchange our faith for God’s grace. One author said this, “faith receives what grace provides.” That is quite good!

Here is another way of saying it, God’s grace or the provision of God, is brought into manifestation by our faith. Here is the good news: Everything that God has provided in His Word for us is ours by faith! We have the ability to exchange our faith for all of the promises in God’s Word. Wow! How wonderful is that. God has already made provisions to meet every need in my life and has provided a way from me to get them!

So instead of “Got Milk?” I say, “Got Faith?”

Pastor Steven McCartt
Family Worship Center Church of Florence SC