Every man or woman that comes into this world, is born with five senses to connect with his natural surroundings - touch, taste, smell, hear, see. Now, sometimes, those five senses are distorted or crippled, such as someone who is blind, deaf, etc. Then, we also have senses in our soul (the inner man), memory, conscience, imagination, affections, memory. These connect with our physical man and our spiritual man. But deep down, on the inside of the inside, as it were, man is given a spirit. And this spirit is giving two senses to contact the spiritual world and the soul: faith and doubt.
Some years ago, I had the privilege of caring for those who suffer with dementia. I went through extensive training, not only to learn to care for those people, but to train others on how to provide excellent care to those people. I learned so much about the brain. But one of the interesting things about the brain is that inside the deepest part of our brain is the amygdala (which our brains possess two). One is the positive and the other is the negative sensory. Or we could say one is faith while the other is fear; or one is yes and the other is no. This is still a controversial subject among scientists and I am by no means qualified to make a scientific decision on this. However, when it comes to the spirit, we find there are certainly two motivations - faith or doubt.
God gave each of us the free will to choose. We can choose what clothes to wear, what food to eat, etc. We can also choose which sense that we will follow - faith or doubt (fear). Many people put their faith in a pagan god or idol. This may be a false god or it may be something like their job or another person, or even their own self. But when we come in contact with the Lord Jesus Christ and realize that He has paid the price for our sins, once we confess these sins to Him, repent (turn away from) them, and accept Him into our lives by the Holy Spirit, we are given more than a measure of faith. We are given HIS FAITH - the Faith of Jesus.
Paul said to the Roman believers, "the righteousness of God which is by FAITH OF JESUS CHRIST unto all and upon all them that believe..." Romans 3:22 And speaking of himself, he said to the believers in Philippi, "and be found in Him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the FAITH OF CHRIST, the righteousness of God by faith..." Philippians 3:9
In the epistle to the Hebrews, we find, "Now FAITH is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report. Through FAITH we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which do appear." Hebrews 11:1-3 Faith is a revelation. It is, in fact the Revelation of Jesus Christ. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST. Galatians 1:11; Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and HOPE to the end for the grace that is to be brought at the REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST. 1 Peter 1:13
We cannot begin to have the faith for the supernatural unless we have the FAITH of Jesus Christ. Not our faith, but His. That's why Paul could declare boldly, "I can do ALL things THROUGH Christ Who strengthens me." Philippians 4:13 When we recognize this Faith, then we can step into the fulfillment of the words of our Lord Jesus when He said, "I can of Mine own self do nothing" (John 5:30) and "but the Father that dwells in Me, He does the works... He that believes on Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than this shall He do; because I go unto My Father." (John 14:10;12)
It's not us doing the works, but the Father in us, through the baptism of the Holy Spirit. So, Who's faith is it, anyway? The Faith of Jesus Christ by revelation.
