The Discipline of faith guarantees ultimate manifestions.
The manifestations that should follow a believer are born out of the discipline of faith.
The discipline of faith is often referred to as the walk of faith. You were designed to walk by faith, ensuring that you manifest the glory of God in the flesh as it is with you in the Spirit.
Ephesians 2:10:
“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them” (NKJV).
Romans 6:3-4:
“Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore, we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”
2 Corinthians 5:7:
“For we walk by faith, not by sight.”
The word “walk” here is translated from the Greek word peripateō, meaning to tread all around, to walk at large (especially as proof of ability); figuratively, to live, deport oneself, follow as a companion or votary.
Walking in the newness of life—living out in the body the life of God in our spirit—is to walk as God has prepared in Christ for us.
To walk in this newness of life is to manifest the life of God in nature. It is the birthing of the supernatural, accomplished by faith and manifested through the discipline of faith.
The discipline of faith is a warfare executed with military precision. It ensures that we do not walk by sight or become entangled with the affairs of this life. We focus not on fleeting things but on the eternal. Our convictions are not derived from human wisdom, but our faith is rooted in the power of God. In this warfare of faith, we fight to please the One who enlisted us into the army of Christ.
2 Timothy 2:4:
“No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.”
The discipline of faith does not accept compromise. It doesn’t engage in battle without aim or target, and it is not presumptuous. It is grounded in the spoken Word.
1 Corinthians 9:26-27:
“Therefore I do not run uncertainly (without definite aim). I do not box like one beating the air and striking without an adversary. But [like a boxer] I buffet my body [handle it roughly, discipline it by hardships] and subdue it, for fear that after proclaiming to others the Gospel and things pertaining to it, I myself should become unfit [not stand the test, be unapproved and rejected as a counterfeit]” (AMP).
The discipline of faith weighs words in the heart and speaks them with conviction. We are saved by grace through faith. This means faith brings the gift of grace into manifestation. Though the grace that brings salvation has appeared to all men, not every man is saved. Men are saved when they hear the word of faith, believe in the Lord Jesus, and confess it with their mouths. The manifestation of salvation is made possible by their conviction and confession.
Romans 10:8-10:
“But what does it say? ‘The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart’ (that is, the word of faith which we preach); that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”
The discipline of faith is a war principle—a good fight of faith. You cannot manifest what you have received if you avoid this warfare of faith. Learn from your salvation experience: the gift of grace was manifested only when you believed the word of faith and spoke it confidently.
Today, your entire nature should be built up by the fight of faith so that you may walk in the newness of life. This is how you manifest the supernatural in your body, ministry, and business.
You are a speaking spirit, a life-giving spirit. Do so with the discipline of faith.
1 Corinthians 15:45-49:
“And so it is written, ‘The first man Adam became a living being.’ The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven. As was the man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.”
You are in the image of Christ; you are a life-giving spirit. Learn to wage war with your words, speaking from a heart convicted by the word of the Lord. As a life-giving spirit, enforce the law of the Spirit by warring with your words. Use your words like weapons. Aim them with precision and fire them with the confidence of a sniper.
The discipline of faith is a battle that reveals God’s pattern for your life, as scripted in the holy Word. Fill your heart with the Word like a sniper loads his gun. Speak it with a clear aim at your target.
Fight this fight. Use your heart’s conviction to declare God’s design for you in Christ.
I call you blessed.