Increase Your Faith By Serving God

    Do you want your faith to increase? You simply need to keep serving God!

    In Jesus’ response to the apostles asking for increase of faith (Luke 17:5-10), we find that a small amount of real faith would put them on the right path, but it is dedicated service toward God –  active and tenacious – that will increase and strengthen our faith.

    Many of us would desire an immediate gift of faith that would not allow doubt or uncertainty – a strong, secure faith that would not fail us, but Jesus said that that kind of faith is only developed through continued service – always choosing to put God’s requirements and commands ahead of our own (Luke 17:7-10).

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, 

by the mercies of God, that you present 

your bodies a living sacrifice,holy, 

acceptable to God, which is 

your reasonable service.” 

(Romans 12:1 NKJV)

    Along life’s journey we will have opportunities to grow our faith, through active times of raising children, through sacrifice of our own desires, ideas, and expectations, and through patient submission because of age, illness, or other long-term stresses, if in these we choose God and His holy ways, having a complete trust in Him, loving Him, obeying Him, and being fully confident of His promises, happily saying, “Whatever you need me to do, I will do it”, then with each opportunity our faith will increase.

    As I wrote in an earlier post, how can you have faith in God’s promise of peace if you never give over your worries (Philippians 4:6-8)? How can you have faith in His care if you never cast your cares upon Him (1 Peter 5:6-7)? With each opportunity to do things HIS way, our faith has opportunity to grow.

    We love and obey God willingly, eager to serve Him to the uttermost because we know what He has done for us (John 3:16-17, Romans 5:8-9), we see what He continues to do for us (Psalm 68:19, Psalm 103:1-5, Ephesians 1:3-14; 2:1-10), and we believe that what He has promised He will do for us (Hebrews 11:6, 1 Peter 1:3-9, 1 John 2:25)!

    In the end, we will only be able to say, “We are unprofitable servants, we have done what was our duty to do”, knowing we would never, even if we lived for a million years, we would never be able to repay God for what He has done for us!

    The joy we feel in trusting God’s grace is part of what propels us in our active, willing duty! So keep trusting, keep choosing God and HIS way, and keep serving – it is worth EVERY effort!!

“Let your waist be girded 

and your lamps burning; 

and you yourselves be like men 

who wait for their master, 

when he will return from the wedding, 

that when he comes and knocks 

they may open to him immediately. 

Blessed are those servants 

whom the master, when he comes, 

will find watching…” 

(Luke 12:35-37a NKJV)

You can do it! So can I!!