How do you develop your faith? Yes you do have to exercise it on a regular basis as I've mentioned in previous Posts, but that's not all. In fact there's something you have to do before you can even exercise your faith in order to develop it. So let's find out what that is.
Hebrews 11:1 tells us faith is the substance of things hoped for, with hope here being the expectation of future good based on the Word of God. So it appears that one needs to know the Word of God in order to have hope upon which to exercise your faith.
Romans 10:17 tells us that faith comes by hearing the Word of God. One definition of the word "come" is to move forward toward something, and in Romans 10:17 the something being moved forward toward is the developing, growing or building up your faith so you can know it and have hope upon which to exercise your faith, not to receive or get faith as we know that God has already given us faith as a gift (Ephesians 2:8 & Romans 12:3).
So according to Romans 10:17 to move toward developing your faith you must first hear the Word of God. But you can't hear the Word of God until you pick up your Bible and read the Word of God out loud because faith comes by hearing!
Therefore it's not enough to just read the Word of God if you want to develop your faith, but you have to say it out loud or confess it out of your mouth, so you can "hear" it, and so it can go into your ears and get in your spirit so you can come to truly know it and have hope upon which to exercise your faith.
So do you want to develop your faith and grow it? Then read the Word of God and "say it out loud", for faith comes or is developed by hearing the Word of God!
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