God Given Faith, Meets a Specific Need

God gives this Faith or withholds it at His discretion. This Kind of Faith is included with all other Supernatural Gifts. The Key Phrase in the above scripture is, “Just as He wills”. God Himself determines when and to whom He will impart each of the Spiritual Gifts. The initiative is with God, not with man.

This was true even in the Ministry of Jesus Himself. He did not curse every fruitless fig tree. He did not calm every storm. He did not call every dead man out of his tomb. He was careful to leave the initiative in the hands of the Father. In John 5:19, He said, “Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.”

Again Jesus said in John 14:10, “Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.” The initiative was always with the Father. We must learn to be as reverent and as careful in our relationship with the Father as Jesus was. The gift of Faith is not ours to command. It is not intended to satisfy our personal ambitions.