Your faith, that is what I am talking about. We as Christians have all been given a measure of faith and our Lord expects us to use it.

I am going to address 3 different areas regarding faith.

1. What is faith
2. When to use it
3. How to use it

What is faith? 

I suppose if you ask 10 different teachers you would get 11 different answers. I will give you mine, I know it is a working definition, what I mean is I know it works so it must be close to the truth.

Faith is putting your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ every time you are tempted to sin or every time you are faced with a decision that you are not sure what God’s will is.

What I write mostly about is our battles with the sin in our lives. I am convinced that the majority of Christians struggle with this issue and are losing the battle. So that is what I am going to talk about.

When to use it. 

Primarily we use it to overcome sins temptations. “For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.” 1John 5:4

How to use it.

Here is how it should go down.

1. You are tempted to sin
2. You feel the heat of the temptation but you have not yet made the decision to yield to it.
3. You cry out to God to rescue you from this temptation 
4. You cling to the Lord Jesus Christ for he is your deliverance and your Savior.
5. You hold onto Him until deliverance comes. This clinging and holding is you exercising your faith. Simple right? Just don’t let go. Yes it is suffering get over it, don’t wimp out, you are not dying, you are not even shedding any blood. This is expected of you by our Lord, it is not optional, you can do it. He has personally given you the faith to do this. 
6. Jesus personally comes in your life at this critical moment and delivers you from your temptation.

If you do steps 1 thru 6 then you are exercising your faith and you have just scored a victory under your belt. “This is the victory that overcomes the world even our faith.”

So bada bing bada boom you have just discovered how to live a victorious Christian life. Just rinse and repeat and every time you exercise your faith your faith will get stronger and the power of sin will get weaker and weaker. Only be sure you are consistent, don’t be wishy washy about so serious a matter. 

Shoot for a 100% success rate, it is possible. But if you fail just pull yourself up by the boot straps and be ready for the next time.

Try avoiding temptations as best you can. Jesus taught us in the Lord’s Prayer, “and lead us not into temptation.” Meaning we should avoid getting into the heat of temptation in the first place. Lets face it we are weak.

What happens to those who don’t use it? (Their faith)  for one they will never overcome their sins, it is only faith as stated above that can give us the victory over our sins. Two, if you don’t use your faith you will end up losing your faith and you will not enter the Kingdom of God. The scriptures clearly teach us to be holy and that without holiness no one will see the Lord.

So there you have it, my short disertation on faith. It is not so hard to understand is it? But it is easier said than done. But we all have the ability to do this, God in his goodness has given us faith and the ability to use it to overcome the world. So let us do this.

Any questions? Put them in the comments below.