5 Ways Faith Will Change Your Life
by Kenneth Copeland
After living the faith life for many years, I’m convinced that the recent awakening of faith is a move of God. God is calling people from all denominations to live a life of power. He is revealing how to live victoriously—day in and day out, in good times and bad. Today, I’m going to share five ways that faith in God’s WORD will change your life. Of course, once you begin living the faith life, you’ll quickly see that faith changes everything in life, but for now, let’s just start with these five.
- Faith Will Change Your Life by Opening the Kingdom of God
Some people use faith to get born again, then they lay it down and never use it again. If you do that, you’ll never be able to make spiritual principles work for you.
Every one of Jesus’ apostles operated by faith. Their faith wasn’t some kind of special apostle faith, either. It was the same kind of faith you and I have (2 Peter 1:1).
God didn’t shortchange you and give you an inferior brand of faith just because you were born 2,000 years after the apostles. You, as a born-again believer, have like faith with Peter, James, John, Paul and every other New Testament Christian.
- Faith Will Change Your Life by Keeping You Safe, Healed and Prosperous
Every aspect of your spiritual life depends on faith in The WORD of God! If you’re not living by faith, the power of God is totally neutralised in your life. He can do no mighty works for you.
You can go to church every Sunday. You can even read your Bible every day. But if The WORD you read and hear preached isn’t mixed with faith, nothing will come of it. That was proven in Jesus’ ministry. He went to Nazareth and preached to the people but “He could there do no mighty work…because of their unbelief” (Mark 6:5-6).
Think about that. Those people had the Healer right there with them, but they couldn’t be healed. They had the Deliverer right there, but they couldn’t be delivered.
- Faith Will Change Your Life by Making You Armed and Dangerous to the Devil
“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil” (Ephesians 6:10-11).
All the pieces of the armour of God have one thing in common—The WORD of God. But according to Hebrews 4:2, the Word does not profit you when it’s not mixed with faith. None of these pieces of armour will do you any good without faith.
- Faith Will Change Your Life by Helping You Grow in the Fruit of the Spirit
You can’t enjoy the fruit of the spirit unless you’re living by faith. Peter knew that. He wrote: “Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone… Do these things, and you will never fall away” (2 Peter 1:5-7, 10).
Faith is the foundation of a godly life. Without your faith, you don’t have a base on which to build these spiritual forces.
- Faith Will Change Your Life by Enabling You to Please God
According to Romans 14:23, “Whatsoever is not of faith is sin,” and what’s more, you can’t please God without it (Hebrews 11:6). That’s about as simple and clear as it can be. You must have faith to please your heavenly father.
Faith isn’t just a temporary movement that’s sweeping through the world. It will change your life! It’s a permanent way of life for people of God—a way that works in good times and bad, a way that works when nothing else is working. Faith is here to stay!