Faith in Christ Alone

When the Bible talks about faith it is talking about being convinced in the sacrifice of Christ on the cross and who we are in Him as a result. Kenneth E. Hagin would often admonish believers to make sure they don’t try to believe God for something outside of His Word. That is why we can look to God for healing, because it is written in the Bible (1 Peter 2:24).

Nowhere in the Bible does it way that we can believe God for something – such as a house or a car. Most of the time the assurances of the Bible are rather vague or broad based. We have the assurance in Philippians 4:19 that God will meet our needs through Christ. We also have the promise of Jesus Himself in Matthew 6:33 that all the things we need will be added to us.

But we don’t have scripture that tells us that we can believe God for a specific thing. In fact, Jesus told His disciples that they should not seek after “these things” (what you should eat and what you should wear). Notice how Jesus just speaks about the basics – He does not even mention luxuries of any kind.

I believe that where we miss it with faith is when we get too specific and we set ourselves and God goals to attain, such as ‘X’ amount of pounds or dollars. A lot of the time Christians just want to build “great faith” by believing God for something extravagant. The reason for this is because they want to feel loved by God, as if they are special; perhaps they want to prove themselves to other people as well. If a person has a legitimate need, then that is fine – but we can still only put our faith in what Christ has done for us.