Understanding Spiritual Gifts: The Gift of Faith… In Under 10 Minutes
WELCOME to Issue #201 of The Seedhead from Alex and Hannah at Dandelion Resourcing - a weekly confidence booster to help you step into naturally supernatural discipleship and mission!
The spiritual gift of faith is to be firmly persuaded of God’s power to accomplish His will and to display a confidence that is not shaken by circumstances. You could describe it as a mysterious surge of confidence that God is about to act!
Can you think of an example of this gift from the Bible?
The one we talk about in the video is from Acts 14:8-10, “Paul looked directly at the lame man, saw that he had faith to be healed and called out, ‘Stand up on your feet!’” How do you ‘see’ faith? What an interesting text this is!
Our experience is that you can learn to ‘see’ faith in individuals or a group. Obviously, we’re talking about spiritual sight here!
More broadly, faith is something that all of us can actively choose to grow in personally. We tell some stories of this, as well as giving you 5 practical ways to activate greater faith in your life.
Here’s the video:
Next Steps
Name 3 areas in your life right now where you can choose to more fully live by faith. Try to pick something that is measurable and tangible, such as a specific goal, financial need, or time-bound.
If you want to go to the next level, pray and ask God for a numeric goal that you can go after in prayer and action. For instance, if you’re fundraising for a specific cause, what is the dollar amount and by when? Bear in mind this might well come to you gently, so have fun with this and give grace to get it ‘wrong’!
To learn more about Faith, The Naturally Supernatural Course has a whole module that will give you strong biblical rooting and simple practical outworking. Look for Part C: Expansion, and start watching Module C3.
*If you enter coupon code gifts24 at the checkout, you’ll be able to purchase all 6 videos in Part C at half-price - down from $49 to $25! This offer is good until August 31, and comes to you with our love!
Faith is listed as both a gift and a fruit of the Spirit. In other words, it comes both by divine impartation and also our maturing in Christ.
Greater faith should be something that every one of us us seeing in our lives as each year goes by. If you’re not seeing this, ask the Lord why, and what next steps might be for you to stretch yourself into areas of discomfort where you have to rely on the Lord more fully!’
With love,
Alex + Hannah
ALEX AND HANNAH ABSALOM
P.S. If you have a story about how YOU or a friend have used this gift, please take a moment to drop us a note about what happened!
