In my communion time with the Holy Spirit, He emphasized the critical importance of understanding how faith comes and added the spiritual mechanics by which it continually operates in a believer’s life. This further understanding of the working of faith in our hearts is essential if we are to remain in a place where faith is consistently flowing into our hearts.

As declared by the Apostle Paul in Romans 10:17, “faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”  We understand from this statement that faith is never static meaning that it must continually keep coming.

This truth connects directly with Hebrews 11:6, which states that without faith it is impossible to please God because whoever comes to Him must believe that He is and that He is a Rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

Therefore, if faith is not actively entering and operating in our hearts, it becomes impossible for us to please the Lord. A successful walk with the Lord demands a reliable, intentional way of ensuring that faith is continually being received into our lives.

The Holy Spirit then drew my attention to Jesus’ example of pleasing the Father. In Luke 3:22, the Father declares over Jesus, “You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased.” Since we know that faith is what pleases God, it is evident that Jesus lived and operated fully in and by faith. Therefore this practice of living by faith must be our pursuit as well so that our lives will be pleasing to the Lord.

The Holy Spirit went on to challenge a common assumption we make that faith automatically comes simply because we hear a sermon or read a Scripture. He asked, “Hearing what?” Faith comes not merely from the exposure to words from the bible, but from hearing the specific Word of the Lord that carries divine authority and life.

To clarify this, the Holy Spirit pointed to Peter’s experience of walking on water in Matthew 14:28–32 where Peter asked Jesus, “If it is You, command me to come.” When Jesus said, “Come,” Peter heard the Word from the Lord and at that moment, faith came to Peter to take the step of walking on water. That Word come enabled him to step out of the boat and do what no other human has ever done again which was to walk on water toward Jesus.

This aligns with Hebrews 12:2, which calls us as followers of Jesus to look unto Jesus, as the author and finisher of our faith. As Peter looked at Jesus and acted on His spoken Word, he operated in the faith initiated by its Author.

Even though faith had come and Peter yielded to walking in it, something shifted in Peter’s heart as Peter began to respond to another voice. The voice of doubt and contrary reasoning started bombarding his heart and as he responded to it he immediately fell from the supernatural and began to sink.

Though Scripture does not record audible words of what happened in Peter’s heart, the Holy Spirit revealed that Peter began “hearing” something else internally, something that contradicted the Word “Come.” His attention shifted, his hearing shifted, and doubt entered. As a result of this wavering, he began to sink.

The issue therefore was not Jesus’ Word, because it still remained final and authoritative. The problem was Peter’s yielding to another message in his heart that did not produce faith, but created doubt in his mind. Jesus’ question to Peter as to“Why did you doubt?” exposed the root issue that doubt does not please God, and makes it clear that those who entertain doubt cannot receive from the Lord.

Peter had heard Jesus preach daily; faith should have been continually coming. Yet in that moment, he allowed a message of doubt to override the Word that had launched him into the miraculous. Though his eyes were on Jesus, his heart disengaged from the original Word and responded to a different voice.

This fact is made clear by Jesus in Mark.11:23B where Jesus makes it clear that doubt is the robber of faith in the heart. We are not to allow doubt in our hearts because it contaminates faith and renders one paralysed from receiving what you started believing for.

This failure became a formative lesson for Peter in his Christian walk with the Lord. Later, in 1 Peter 1:13–14, he exhorts followers of Jesus to gird up the loins of their minds, be sober, and rest their hope fully on grace revealed by the Lord.

Peter learned to guard his heart hearing, to discipline his mind, and how to reject contrary voices. Through the Holy Spirit’s power, he developed the capacity to continue hearing the Lord’s Word while shutting out doubt and unbelief from his heart.

The Holy Spirit’s call today is clear, which is to embark on a disciplined journey of faith from the heart. Develop a way of life where hearing the Lord’s Word is a continual and intentional daily intake in your life so faith is always coming to you.

Then act immediately on what He speaks. Make it your practice to refuse entertaining voices of doubt and unbelief that seek to abort your miracle of receiving what the Lord promised mid-process.

Through the grace flowing from this word there is abundant ability available to recover all opportunities you once lost due to interrupted faith journeys by doubt and fear. What you began in faith but ended in doubt will be redeemed if you stand your ground in persistent faith.

The Holy Spirit desires to infuse you as a follower of Jesus with such power and clarity that you will no longer yield your heart to unbelief but you will walk through every assignment of the Lord towards you to its miraculous conclusion in your life.

I declare in the mighty Name of Jesus that faith is continually coming into your heart to expand your capacity to receive from the Lord. I decree that the ears of your heart are tuned to the voice of the Lord, and that every contrary voice of doubt and unbelief is silenced in Jesus name.

You will no longer begin a walk in faith and end up in unbelief with shame and disgrace. You will no longer step out in obedience to the voice of the Holy Spirit only to retreat in fear because the Word spoken by the Author of your faith Jesus will remain the final outcome in your heart.

I decree that all your missed opportunities of faith results are being restored and all your interrupted faith journeys are being resumed. You will walk fully in the miraculous, by completing every step the Lord commands you to take as your mind is girded, your hope is steadfast, and your hearing the voice of the Holy Spirit is sanctified. Doubt no longer has dominion over you because faith rises within you continually, and you will please the Lord in all your ways.

Have an extraordinary day marked by signs, wonders, and manifestations of the Holy Spirit’s power in your life in Jesus’ mighty Name. Amen.