How to Release Your Faith

Champions Assembly  April 2024 (Speakers Note)

How faith is released

This year our focus is on reigning by faith. We have looked at the building blocks of faith and what faith is not: avoiding the pitfalls. You can see all past messages on spotify, search for Champions Diet.  Now we want the Holy Spirit to teach us on How we can release our faith. 

•  Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. Heb 11:1

Eph 1:18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, 19 and his incomparably great power for us who believe. 

• Faith is to believe in your hearts, expressed by words and your action without doubt what God has relieved. 

Faith is a spiritual currency. It is a means to have your needs met. A vehicle for transferring your spiritual inheritance to meet your spiritual and physical needs. 

Eph 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

2 Peter 1: 3 His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 4 Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 7 and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love.

We live and reign on earth by faith. In heaven faith won’t be needed. Everything will be revealed. 

In heaven you will get rewards. But on earth everything you will get won’t just come to you. You will have to receive them by faith.

Mark 11: 12 The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry. 13 Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs. 14 Then he said to the tree, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard him say it.

15 On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and began driving out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves, 16 and would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts. 17 And as he taught them, he said, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’[c]? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’[d]”

18 The chief priests and the teachers of the law heard this and began looking for a way to kill him, for they feared him, because the whole crowd was amazed at his teaching.

19 When evening came, Jesus and his disciples[e] went out of the city.

20 In the morning, as they went along, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots. 21 Peter remembered and said to Jesus, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree you cursed has withered!”

22 “Have faith in God,” Jesus answered. 23 “Truly[f] I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them. 24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. 25 And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.”

Faith is a tool of God. God operates by faith. He does not start doubting what He aid. 

Gen 1: 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness [a]was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. [b]So the evening and the morning were the first day.

Since God operates by faith and we are made in His image and likeness, we need to operate like Him, operate by faith. Have the faith of God and have faith in God.

Abraham is called the friend of god because he operated by faith the way God taught him. 

Gen 17:5

No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.

Rom 4:17 As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.”[c] He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not.

18 Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”[d] 19 Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead—since he was about a hundred years old—and that Sarah’s womb was also dead. 20 Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, 21 being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised. 22 This is why “it was credited to him as righteousness.” 23 The words “it was credited to him” were written not for him alone, 24 but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness—for us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. 25 He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.

When Jesus was on earth he lived by faith. He had to have faith before he died that he will rise again.

Now, how to release your faith

• Get it right. First have faith in your heart. Here imagination or vision is important. You should be able to imagine or envision your hope or expectation that was how God taught Abraham faith. God told him to count the stars, and as far as his eyes can see it will be given him. Faith flows by your ability to see the desired result.

 But having faith in your heart won’t get the job done. Rom 10:10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses (openly declaring your faith) and is saved.

• Words: The basic way faith is released is by words. Other things I will mention are just accompanying tools. There are opportunities to release the words of faith: 

• • Writing is a way of releasing words (Luke 1:62 Then they made signs to his father, to find out what he would like to name the child. 63 He asked for a writing tablet, and to everyone’s astonishment he wrote, “His name is John.” 64 Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue set free, and he began to speak, praising God.).
  • Conversation with others is a way of releasing words (Mal 3:16 Then those who feared the Lord talked with each other, and the Lord listened and heard. A scroll of remembrance was written in his presence concerning those who feared the Lord and honored his name. 17 “On the day when I act,” says the Lord Almighty, “they will be my treasured possession. I will spare them, just as a father has compassion and spares his son who serves him. 18 And you will again see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.). 
  • Confessing God’s word to yourself is a way of releasing words. Matt 9:. 20 And behold, a woman who had suffered from a discharge of blood for twelve years came up behind him and touched the fringe of his garment, 21 For she kept saying to herself, “If only I touch his cloak, I will be healed.” 22 Jesus turned, and seeing her he said, “Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well.” And instantly the woman was made well.

• Prayer is a form of releasing words. Mark 11:24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

You see words are not that cheap. Well it is cheap to say it. But it yields expensive results. James 3. Now along with your words some faith walk may demand corresponding action as a way to give substance or prove or show the evidence of your faith. That is how your faith is seen. Luke 5:20 The healing of the paralytic.

• Action: Faith is released by obedience. Faith gets into motion when you step out. When you have the word of promise, believe it in your heart, imagine yourself in it, envision it by meditation, then you become courgeous to speak it out. The next thing is to be bold to take any appropriate step. E.g. Peter healing at the beautiful gate Acts 3.

Matt 14:25 Shortly before dawn Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake. 26 When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. “It’s a ghost,” they said, and cried out in fear.

27 But Jesus immediately said to them: “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”

28 “Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to you on the water.”

29 “Come,” he said.

Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. 30 But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, “Lord, save me!”

31 Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. “You of little faith,” he said, “why did you doubt?”

Next topic in May: Hindrances to Faith and How to Overcome them. Matthew 14:22-33