Your Faith Is Impregnable

In the aftermath of the miracle of the cursed fig tree which withered and died, Jesus told His disciples to have God’s faith: “And Jesus answering saith unto them, have faith in God” (Mark 11:22).

In Matthew’s account of this miracle, Jesus gave added instruction on the power of such faith:

Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done. And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. (Matthew 21:21-22)

Everyone would like to have the kind of faith that removes mountains and does exploits for God. We pray for it, we seek it, we struggle in our spiritual lives for such faith. We have thought that God is depending so much on what we possess, what we have, how we arrive.

In seeking to “obtain faith, step out in faith, trying to have faith” etc., men have in effect, tried to put God in a vulnerable position. In doing this they have caused much confusion and frustration. The struggle to have faith has caused untold stress and perplexity in the lives of people who have not received answers to their prayers.

God never intended His people to struggle for faith. Faith is not the product of human struggling! Can we produce faith? No. Faith, like love, comes only from God. Faith is not a natural life force we can struggle to produce.

Faith never fails. There is no such thing as failing faith. There is no such thing as imperfect faith. There is no unreal faith. There is only real faith. In fact, you cannot have faith without having infallibility! The word “infallible” means no margin for error.

How can we, as humans receive something that requires infallibility? Because our faith comes from God. Going even deeper, we understand that the faith God gives is impregnable! The devil cannot penetrate our faith. He cannot destroy it because he cannot get inside it. It is impregnable.