A Perfect Measure
According to Romans 12:3, God has given every man a measure of faith. This scripture is a perfect fit with Hebrews 11:6 that says “without faith it is impossible to please God.”
With the measure God gave you, you can obtain salvation, healing, deliverance and much more.
Anything received outside of faith is sin and sin offends God. You will always fail at whatever you attempt to accomplish, if it’s done with faith.
God is so awesome that every human being’s measure is personalized and proportionate to their calling and purpose. My measure may be smaller or larger than your measure, but it is the exact measure God intended. Whatever the case may be, the measure is perfect. The proportions of faith are so perfect that no one is at a disadvantage.
Why is it that you can have two people facing the same identical situation and one run and the other stay? You may be in the midst of a trying situation right now and everybody is saying “I don’t see how you take it” or put up with it.” But what they fail to realize is that God gave you the perfect measure of faith to endure this particular situation. By the same token, those very same people may be facing something you don’t have the measure of faith to endure.
Look at the woman with the issue of blood. Her faith obtained for her what money and physicians could not. Though the Bible speaks of faith as small as a mustard, apparently it is a powerful portion. God’s measurements are not the same as ours. The mustard seed measure grows by hearing and hearing by the word of God. (Romans 10:17). God will even assist you in growing your faith by allowing delays and sometimes saying no. It’s very simple to see that sometimes the things we believe are bad and failures are not.
It is impossible for you to be successful or loyal to anything that does not fit your measure of faith. Faith is given for specific reasons for your specific life. For an example, God did not give you faith to be a drug addict or a prostitute, which is why this is a miserable life that you are sure to fail.
A few years ago, I taught a series called “Discipline, Measure and Pleasure”. In that series the Holy Spirit revealed that our lives must first be disciplined to do what God has called us to do, then He will increase a measure of himself and then we experience the pleasures of God.
What you need is already inside you. Use it.
Pastor Joey
