Receiving the impartation of the gift of Faith (The Victor's Mentality 42)

In today’s article, I will be closing on the Shield of Faith.

Just a reminder that we have been sharing on the victor’s mentality. For a believer to triumph, they need to go with the mentality of Christ’s victory. When we check Romans 8:37, the Bible refers to us as more than conquerors, that is, we are more than victors. You know why? Because the starting point was not on the battlefield with the enemy. Rather, our starting position is from the victory Christ has won for us on the cross.

For you to be called a victor, you need to start from a position where you battle with your enemy on the battleground, then after you have defeated him, they declare you a victor. But that is not the case for us believers; our starting point was not on the battlefield because Jesus has already won the battle for us over the devil, sin, and all its consequences. Now our position is from a victor’s position. That’s why Paul said we are more than conquerors. We are more than victors. We didn’t fight but received all the blessings of the victory.

This is the perspective you need to have as children of God. 

That is why your faith is not leaning on anyone or anything else apart from the One who gave us the victory.

So under our subtopic on the shield of faith, we have seen already six different phases of faith: saving faith, justifying faith, living faith, overcoming faith, defensive faith, and last week we saw a special application of faith (the gift of faith).

Regarding the gift of faith as we can see it in 1 Corinthians 12:9, it is sovereignly given to us by the Spirit at different times so as to perform a particular task that will only bring glory to God. However, as I also said in the last article, we can also position ourselves to be imparted with this gift of faith every day of our lives.

I told us why we all need this special impartation from time to time in our last discussion. So what I will be sharing today to tie the series up is how we can position ourselves to receive this impartation of the Holy Spirit for this special gift of faith.

The first way is that you need to be available where God has put you.

God will not invest in you in a place that you are not supposed to be. God releases spiritual investment where there is divine placement and obedience. You cannot expect spiritual impartation in a location, assignment, or environment God did not send you to. Impartation only flows in the atmosphere of alignment.

There are many examples but let us look at Philip’s example in Acts 8:26:

“Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.” (Acts 8:26)

Humanly, it made no sense to leave a thriving revival for a desert road, but Philip obeyed. Because he positioned himself where God sent him, he encountered the Ethiopian eunuch and led him to Christ. And after that, God divinely relocated him after fulfilling the assignment. He literally defied time and space. That kind of faith is the kind of peak faith in which Christ operates as he constantly defies time.

Now, please note: This was not recorded as a ritual. If it were normal living faith, he could have been disappearing every time he needed to go out, but it is a special impartation because of the assignment God had given him. But let us assume he didn’t obey the call; he would not have experienced this level of the supernatural.

So, in essence, if you want to always experience the result of the supernatural gift of faith in different forms of it, then you need to always be where God wants you to be.

Elijah is another example in 1 Kings 17:3-4, when he pronounces famine on the land, and God told him to go to the brook Cherith; there, provision awaited him.

The second way we position ourselves is that we must not be intimidated by any situation or circumstances.

When we don’t see the situation as God sees it, that it is nothing, we will not be able to experience this supernatural faith. Fear, pressure, and intimidation will then shut down faith sensitivity.

God imparts faith most easily to hearts that remain bold, calm, and trusting in His sovereignty, regardless of external conditions. Some situations may come, and sincerely you may not know how you will go about it, but one thing you are sure of is that the Lord will provide a way out. You are so expectant. Do you know that when there is a surge of faith to dare to take steps, you will not be afraid because you have already seen the problem as solvable?

Jesus was telling His disciples that if you have faith like a mustard seed, you will say to the mountain, “Be removed and be thou cast into the sea.” That situation of confronting a mountain may look intimidating, but you don’t focus on the size of your problem; you are looking at the bigness of our God.

For you to experience supernatural faith, you must start from a position of simple believing that God is in charge. He has made a way already; He has finished the situation on the cross already. Then, from that point, you receive a surge of faith to begin to dare and do what you don’t do on an ordinary day.

That’s the gift of faith!

Brethren, prayerfully meditate on these things.