From The Pastor’s Desk

The Bible has many teachings and lessons for us on faith and how it works. One of them compares the working of faith to that of a servant. This comparison was made by Jesus while responding to a request by His disciples following one of His teachings on forgiveness. “Show us how to increase our faith”, they requested Jesus. (Luke 17:5, NLT)

If you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘May you be uprooted and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you!” (Luke 17:6, NLT). To help understand His response to their request on how to increase their faith, He went ahead and gave them a scenario of a master and his servant.

“When a servant comes in from plowing or taking care of sheep, does his master say, ‘Come in and eat with me’? No, he says, ‘Prepare my meal, put on your apron, and serve me while I eat. Then you can eat later.’ And does the master thank the servant for doing what he was told to do? Of course not. In the same way, when you obey me you should say, ‘We are unworthy servants who have simply done our duty.’ (Luke 17:7-10, NLT).

In other words, your faith is like your servant. You assign it what to do because that is its duty. And when your faith has done its work, you don’t get surprised and start thanking it. No. You instead thank God who gave you the measure of faith that you started your Christian walk with (Romans 12:3, NKJV).

Are there things in your life that you would like to get done? For most of us, the answer is a loud yes; and for some of us we would like them done sooner than later. Well, your faith is waiting for you to assign it the duty of going to get those things done. You don’t have to wait any further. How do you do that? You start by filling up your heart with God’s precious promises, and speaking them out with your mouth out of the overflow from your heart. “…For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks” (Luke 6:45, NKJV).

We are to use our faith in the same way we use our money. When you want a good or a service, you order for it using your money. In other words, you assign your money the duty of getting things done for you. This is the principle that Solomon got a hold of thousands of years ago when he penned down these words: “…money answers everything” (Ecclesiastes 10:19, NKJV)” prayers but she reluctantly agreed and never joined. Diana’s home cell members also invited her to be in attendance in the cell fellowships but she wasn’t interested. Aida, however was experiencing nightmares, she was being tormented by snakes. At a certain point she was sure the snakes were in the house and fear grew in her heart. She reported the matter to Diana who brought in exterminators to deal with the snakes. They didn’t locate physical snakes but went ahead to fumigate the homestead. Aida insisted that she was still seeing the snakes, this is when Diana and her family took on the matter in prayer. At this, the snakes disappeared. Aida was greatly comforted by the power of God and received salvation. Glory to God.

Don’t allow things in your life to go unattended to any more while your faith lies dormant in you. Now is the time for you to enter into the rest in the Word as you get your faith busy working on any and all unfinished business in your life.