What we see in the word is that yes our faith and grow and increase as was shown and mostly we agree.
Beyond that we are shown that what hinders us from recieving from God is when we have doubt and unbelief MIXED with our faith.- When we have faith, but we are also having a double mind and are wavering between faith and doubt and faith and worry that is when we do not recieve from God. and contrary are told when we do not waver but believe without doubting then we recieve.
Jam 1:6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
Jam 1:7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
Jam 1:8 A double minded man [is] unstable in all his ways.
Mat 17:19 Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?
Mat 17:20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
Mat 21:21 Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this [which is done] to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.
Mat 21:22 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Mar 11:22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.
Mar 11:23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
Mar 11:24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive [them], and ye shall have [them].
see believe and DOUBT NOT- whatever ye ask BELIEVING and shall NOT DOUBT YE SHALL RECIEVE.
Sometimes we have faith yes BUT it is mixed WITH worry and doubt making us double minded so that we do not recieve what we have asked or believed for.It is true that the faith of a mustard seed moves mountains, but that faith must be single minded and not mixed with doubt. When we doubt we cannot think we will recieve anything from God.
Now when we hear the wpord and promises of God we must hear them AND mix the hearing with FAITH to have it profit us. We learn this lesson from the Israelites who did not mix the word with faith.
Hbr 4:1 ¶ Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left [us] of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
Hbr 4:2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard [it].
Hbr 4:3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
People get upset because of the idea that we say AGod responds to faith or lack thereof, as if our faith is manipulating God however this is not a manipulation, it is GODS WORD and plan for us. He has set forth His ways and requires us to meet him by faith in order to have what He promises. This is not us manipulating God- it is us obeying God by believing Him so that He will fulfill His promise in us.-It cannot be us manipulating God- when God has set forth promises and commanded us to ask- believe- and not doubt and with that promises that " ye shall have it". We are therefore only meeting Gods commandment and requirements not manipulating him.WHat truly manipulates(or attempts to)God is when we do not read His word with faith applying it to ourselves and stand in faith or pray IN FAITH and then expect that there is any possibility for God to heal us or help us without us believing him. Then using our mouths and hearts to say that when we did not recieve what we asked or read because we did not believe that it was because it was not Gods will to do it.
If we ask or pray and then SEE that right away we dont seem to have what we asked, then we did not ask in faith and arent in faith but in unbelief and are walking by sight.- This is why faith produces patience. Faith requires us to believe before we have seen it and to believe we already h ave it even though we dont see it yet and to stand in that until we do really see it.- Walking with God is about being in faith, and patience being produced through our walk and trial of faith while we wait on the Lord.
There is a big differnece between reading the bible, and reading the bible in faith. and there is a big differnce between knowing the words, and having the revelation and understanding of Gods will through the word. If we do not know Gods will for ALL His people then we cannot ever walk in faith for what we pray or ask or read as applying it to ourselves because we will always be thinking " what f its not Gods will"- that is doubt and not firm expectation.We will always wonder if " yes God does this but maybe not for me, maybe i am a differnet case"When we have this form of thinking we are not having the mind of Christ or the heart of faith in singleness of mind because we are every questioning instead of believing and if we are ever questioning then we cannot walk by faith and ignore what is seen- because we are bound to looking to what is seen to try to constantly determine what the answers to those questions are.
We are told to ask God in faith without doubting in our hearts and BELIEVE you HAVE recieved it and you SHALL have it.- we are not told to pray all the time " is this your will" " please do it if you wanna, if you dont do it then i guess you didnt wanna". WHen we cannot stand in faith when we have asked or read, then we have done so in vain and we get in the flesh and try to save and deliver ourselves.
