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Someone says of a person who seems to have prayers answered and miracles happen in their life - "Wow, what great faith!  Things happen for them because they have such a strong faith."  What does that understanding of faith do to the promise that God has given to each one of us "the measure of faith"?  He did not give one person more faith than another, or stronger faith, or one person faith for healing and another faith for prosperity.  He gave each of us *the* measure of faith.  

We can no more live without applying that faith than we can live without breathing or thinking.  Faith is at work within us every moment of every day.  No matter what the situation - somehow - our measure of faith is a work.  We wake up and crawl out of bed - we 'believe' that the floor will hold us up, our legs will carry us, there will be air to breathe.  We sit in a chair and believe it will hold us.  We get in our cars and drive believing that we know how and that the other drivers on the road also know how!  We read the newspaper and believe the reports.  We watch television and believe the stories told on the many programs revealing and replaying the lives of others.  We see rain and believe we will get wet - we see snow and believe we will be cold - we hear the phone ring and believe someone wants to talk to us - a certain aroma reaches our noses and we believe something is cooking.  

The exercise of faith is a constant process in our lives.  We choose how to apply it.  I can see the rain and choose to believe that I can run faster than the rain is falling and so I won't get wet!  Ridiculous!  But I can choose to believe that.  I can look at the floor when I wake up and wonder "Will it hold me?"  or I can automatically step out trusting its strength.  

I can believe God's Word or I can choose not to believe what He has promised.  There is no middle ground.  I can not say I believe what He said but then not trust Him.  He said "if you are not for Me than you are against Me" (when we do not agree with Him we are agreeing with something else) -  the person who will not place God's Word above all else can not expect to receive the fulfillment of the promise (but they can expect to see the manifestation of what they believe and say).  If we agree with Him we must act like we believe Him, talk like we believe Him, expect the manifestation of the promise.  

If I give you a gift and you lay it aside, forgetting about it or thinking it was meant for someone else, and then you continue to ask for that same gift over and over you have not received the gift you were already given.  That is what we are doing with the faith God has given us.  He has given us every good and perfect gift - He is no respecter of persons - what He has done for one He does for all.  Are we laying the precious gifts aside in unbelief?  Are we waiting until our natural senses confirm what is already done in heaven before we believe?  Faith is believing before the manifestation.  Faith is acting on what God says - not what our eyes, ears, emotions say.  Like a little child - "Daddy said it, so it must be so.  I believe it."  Let go of everything that questions God's Word and determine in your heart to trust Him and only Him.  Don't wait until you see something.  Agree with the Father - accept what Jesus has already bought and paid for - receive the gifts God has promised.

Check your 'believing'.  As you go through the day stop and think about things you do and say - consider the beliefs you have developed that cause you to do and say those things.  Everything - every move we make every word we speak is based on something we believe.  That measure of faith.  How are we using that God-given faith?  Are we using it to believe Him?  We have to believe something - why not agree with the Creator of the Universe!  Surely He can't be wrong!