Dynamically-Linked Faith

RevJP · Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 6:46 am Post subject: Dynamically-Linked Faith

True faith is what links you to the Father. It is through true faith that you are able to say, like Jesus, "I am in the Father and the Father is in me." It is from this dynamically-linked experience that the power of God flows.

Rather than finding the remote-control formula that will finally get God to do what I want him to do, true faith is a recognition not just that I am totally dependant upon God, but that my purposes have merged with his, my will with his, my desire with his. This is the faith that Jesus spoke of when he said:

"If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you."

Rather than it being a matter of learning the right verses to quote back to God, it is a matter of us abiding in Christ and his words abiding in us - becoming a part of us in the same way we have become a part of him. For it is out of this intimate yoking with Christ's will and purpose that true faith is born. That faith is a fire. It consumes you and drives you forward in the work of God. As Corrie Ten Boom expressed it:

"Faith is an activity; it is something that has to be applied."
Corrie Ten Boom, quoted by Edythe Draper in Draper’s Quotations for the Christian World, excerpted from QuickVerse 5.0.