2 Cor. 12:9 , And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. 10 Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.
1 John 5:4 , For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
No Christian fails because he or she is weak; we fail because we doubt. Those verses in 2 Corinthians that we looked at yesterday clearly declare that weakness, and circumstances don’t promote failure; instead they provide an opportunity for the power of God, in Christ, to be demonstrated in, and through our lives. In verse 9 the Lord says, “My grace IS sufficient for you.” He doesn’t say His grace, might be, or could be, or can be, even will be sufficient. He says His grace IS. If something IS then it is a settled fact. That little word IS is written in the present tense, which means His grace IS being continually sufficient. Faith is not believing that He can, or praying that He will. It is trusting, and praising that He IS right now. There is a principle of faith that God acts in response to our faith. What we take by faith; He undertakes in power. Look at the sequence in this verse from Luke when Elizabeth saw Mary when Mary was carrying Jesus in her womb.
Luke 1:45, “And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.” She was blessed because she believed. God performed a miracle in her, in response to her faith. Seeing isn’t believing; instead believing is seeing, and restfully declaring what you see in the spirit. Believing doesn’t make anything true. We believe because we know it IS true, and in believing we release the divine activity of God. As someone has said, “faith is acting like it is so, when it isn’t so, in order for it to be so, because you know it is so; He said it’s so.”