Faith: The Reality of God in You | Part One: The Eyes of Faith

There is a kind of faith that many people speak about, yet very few truly understand. We often think of faith as a way of getting something from God—a house, a job, provision, healing, an answer to prayer. But faith is far deeper than that.

Faith is not merely believing that God will do something for you someday. Faith is the reality of God Himself alive within you.

The tragedy is that many believers know the language of faith without knowing its substance. They have learned to say, “I am believing God,” yet inside they are waiting on people, circumstances, or even their own prayers to save them. They place faith in methods, in feelings, in effort, and sometimes in the prayers of others. Yet true faith begins when a man sees Christ.

The eyes of faith are not imagination—they are knowledge. Not just knowledge about God, but the knowledge of Him.

The Scriptures say that God “hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him.” Before you ever ask, strive, or struggle, God has already made provision. He has already given the promises. He has already placed within you the seed of eternal life.

Faith begins when that reality dawns on the heart.

When Christ is revealed, something changes within a man. Suddenly, he is no longer trying to become accepted by God; he knows he is accepted. He is no longer begging for identity; he discovers who he already is in Christ. Fear begins to lose its voice. Weakness gives way to boldness. Confusion gives way to clarity.

This is why faith produces activity.

The book of James tells us that faith without works is dead—not because works create faith, but because real faith cannot remain hidden. When the life of God becomes real within you, it begins to move. You speak differently. You love differently. You walk differently. The reality of Christ within you begins to shape your thoughts, your choices, and your life.

Faith is not a small part of the Christian life. It is the foundation of it.

Peter writes that after faith comes virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and love. These are not separate things we strive to manufacture. They grow from the revelation of Christ. As the knowledge of Him increases, the believer is clothed with the very nature of God.

Love begins to replace bitterness. Holiness begins to replace compromise.

Patience begins to replace anxiety. Why? Because faith is not merely wishing for a better life—it is the life of God becoming visible in you.

This is why Scripture says that if these things abound in you, you will neither be barren nor unfruitful.

Many people are waiting for a sign from heaven, while heaven is waiting for them to discover what God has already placed within them.

Peter understood this when he stood before the lame man at the gate called Beautiful. He said, “Such as I have give I thee.” Peter did not speak as a man trying to persuade God to move. He spoke as one who knew what had already been given to him in Christ.

That is faith.

Faith knows.

Faith sees.

Faith acts from the reality of what God has already made true.

The believer does not carry an empty religion. He carries Christ within him.

“Christ in you, the hope of glory.”

Within you is eternal life. Within you is the presence of God. Within you is the power, grace, and authority of the Kingdom. The problem is not that God has withheld these things. The problem is that many have not yet seen them.

As a man grows in the knowledge of God, his vision changes. He begins to see beyond fear, beyond limitation, beyond what seems impossible. He discovers that faith is not confidence in his prayer, his effort, or his ability. Faith is confidence in God.

And when faith is fixed upon God, something extraordinary happens: the believer begins to live from heaven while still walking on the earth.

This is the faith that pleases God.

It is the faith that caused Peter to step out onto the water. As long as his eyes remained on Jesus, he walked above what should have overcome him. He only began to sink when he looked away.

So it is with us.

The more we know Him, the more faith grows. The more Christ is revealed, the more the impossible begins to lose its power.

Faith is not pretending. Faith is not striving. Faith is not trying to convince God.