You can’t just have faith.
You hear people say it all the time: Just have faith.
Similar to when a person is upset and someone tells them to calm down.
If they could calm down, they wouldn’t be upset.
The same way, we cannot just have faith.
So then, faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Romans 10:17
Jesus sounded disappointed with the disciples when He said, Oh ye of little faith.
Was He really? Or was He encouraging? Or maybe both?
And He saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then He arose,
and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm. Matthew 8:26
Exercising your faith and not having faith are very different.
Jesus always extends His hand to us. He did so to Peter when he began to doubt,
when he was walking on the water to meet the Lord. Jesus didn’t let him sink. He reached out His hand.
But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying,
Lord, save me. And immediately Jesus stretched forth His hand, and caught him, and said unto him,
O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? Matthew 14:30-31
Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers,
and had sent them out another way? James 2:24-25
Rahab believed. She was also courageous in that belief. That was her work in God’s sight.
What if God is looking for courage in the faith we already have?
Or what if He gives more faith when we need it most?
(For we walk by faith, not by sight:) 2 Corinthians 5:7
Go forth in what you know He is asking of you.
You can ask for more. like the man who asked Jesus to help his unbelief, like when Peter began to sink.
Jesus is there for us. He has all the faith we need. He also has all the courage we need.
Jesus is walking beside us in what He is asking of us.
Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.
And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears,
Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief. Mark 9:23-24
Let us also be courageous in our faith and be willing to walk by faith and not by sight.
Lord, I believe, help thou mine unbelief.