Unleashing Faith

 Picture in your mind a group of ordinary people gathered together. Housewives, farmers, teachers, business owners, administrative assistants, students, and coaches. People from different walks of life of every race united by a common faith in Jesus. Also united in one purpose for gathering. To unleash their faith on the world around them. 

Imagine this group bowing to pray with the intention of believing God to do mighty things in response to their faith unleashing the miraculous work of the Almighty in the context around them. Marriages healed. Rebellious brought to repentance. The addicted delivered. The lost saved. Prodigals returned home. Revival replacing religion. The lukewarm to burn in zeal. Strongholds destroyed. The kingdom of darkness to be overcome with marvelous light. 

The power of unleashed faith has unlimited potential. Let that sink in. The power of unleashed faith has unlimited potential. Why do I say that? Faith has to have an object. In other words, you have to place your faith in something. In our case, we place our faith in God. Jehovah. Yahweh. Because His power does not have limits, therefore our faith in Him is believing that anything He can do can happen through our faith. Our trust in Him can believe Him for anything. There are no limits. Truly we can say along with the scripture that nothing is impossible with Him, or to put a positive spin on it, all things are possible with Him. 

Can you contemplate the implications of that truth? The people of God committed to united and fervent prayer have the potential to unleash their collective faith on the world around them. That is a powerful force. 

We gather to fellowship, to play games, to study the Bible, to share meals, to enjoy family, but we do not often gather for the sole purpose of unleashing our faith. Even when we gather to pray, people are often tired, distracted, and weak in their faith. These prayer meetings can be lackluster. 

I dream of people gathering who are strong in their faith. People who are fervent in prayer. People who resolve to unleash their faith on a dark and twisted world. People strapped with the armor of God to enter the battle for resisting the forces of darkness. Mighty warriors clothed with the strength of the Lord. Powerful in prayer. I dream of dispatched companies of soldiers all over the world doing battle in prayer and unleashing a prayer arsenal attack on the forces of darkness. Unleashing an untamed faith on worldwide wickedness. Such potent prayer warriors that God not only listens, but also intervenes ushering in days of spiritual awakening. 

That has happened before. Look at the early American colonists in 1700s. Read about what happened in the mid 1800s. Research how powerfully God worked in Wales in the early 1900s. The power of unleashed faith from prayer giants like Jonathan Edwards, George Whitfield, and Evan Roberts opened the door for massive moves of God. Read about Charles Finney and Father Nash in the great revival work God put before them. Read about tireless labors of William and Catherine Booth, who founded the Salvation Army, prayerfully invading the slums with the gospel. Take in the account of Hudson Taylor prayerfully forging ahead into the interior of China with the saving message of the gospel when other missionaries remained in the coastal regions. Check out for yourself the fearless courage and indefatigable zeal of D.L. Moody in his quest to win souls. Take in the account of Amy Carmichael, Elizabeth Elliott, Jackie Pullinger and a host of others who unleashed their faith in pagan lands and watched God do miracles. 

What if that same spirit permeated your church and your personal prayer life? What if God set your faith ablaze like a raging prairie fire and that faith was unleashed on the world around you? What mighty things might God do in response? What divine influence and favor could potentially fall on the land? How many masses might turn to Jessu for salvation? The potential is unlimited because God is unlimited. I long to see the day of unleashed faith. Let it start right here, right now in me.