#10 How Faith Works - Part 4

You've found the Word of God you need manifested in your life, you've come to believe it in your heart and have confessed it over your life, and now you are ready for the third step in exercising your faith on that Word - acting or making movement on what you have believed and confessed.

To act is to do something, and an action is a thing done or accomplished, a deed. To move is to go from one position or place to another. So to act or move on the Word you've believed and confessed can be thought of as doing something or going some place with that belief and confession, and involves you continuing to confess and making physical movement despite what your circumstances may indicate.

2 Corinthians 4:18. and 5:7 tell us we should be focused on and live our lives based on the unchanging everlasting Word of God, and not by our circumstances which are temporary. Yes, our circumstances are real and are factual, and we shouldn't deny their existence. But the Word of God is the Truth, can change the facts, and is what truly sets us free.

So putting this principle of acting or moving on what you believe and have confessed to work with our example of exercising your faith for healing in your knees, your action could go something like this - you first confess "Father, I thank you, for I believe that I have received your healing in my knees, and they are fully restored and function just the way you created them to". Then try to use your knees - stand up, try and walk, bend your knees, etc., any kind of movement you can try and make with your knees that you couldn't do before. As you keep making this confession and movement each day you are exercising and building up your faith, and as you do the Word you are standing on will begin to manifest in your life and in time fully manifest. You just need to walk by faith standing on God's Word, and not by the sight of your circumstances or how you feel.

Now this doesn't mean you stop following the doctors orders, taking prescribed medication or even surgery if neccessary, because God uses all of these as channels to deliver your healing. But your faith needs to be in the Word of God, not the doctors, medicine or surgery. This is how you practically exercise faith in your every day life to receive all God has promised you - believing, confessing and acting on the Word of God.

For those who may be doubting and think you'd get healed over time anyway and it doesn't require any faith, stayed tuned for my next post.