Here is the secret behind investing the faith that God gave everyone.

Deuteronomy 6:5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Deuteronomy 13:3 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Mark 12:30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

Love God from the heart. Faith is hidden in our hearts and can only be unleashed when we choose to love God with everything we have, from the heart, the seat of moral choice.

Love is the key to unlocking everything good that God has in store for us.

Faith is God investing in mankind and yearns to see His return on investment but only through His Son, Jesus Christ. That yearning desire is only recognized by the Father if we believe with all our hearts the truth about Jesus.

1 Jesus was sent by the Father

2 Jesus died on the cross as a sacrifice for our sins

3 Jesus was raised up from the dead

4 Jesus ascended back to the Father

5 Jesus rules from the right hand seat of the throne

Believe in these five things with all your heart and you will be born again, the Helper will come to you, and you will be able to hear the truth. The truth is the only thing we need to combat the lies of our enemy.

Once we receive the Helper everything we need to know in how to live this life of faith will be shown to us. It begins then and does not stop until we are returned to God the Father in His heavenly realm.

It is important to understand that we are always learning, ever growing and being changed from glory to glory.

2 Corinthians 3:18 And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

Believe with all your heart.

Isaiah 7:9b  If you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all.

What is true for one is true for all. Truth does not change.

Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Living a life of faith is unique in that we do it while still in the flesh. We should want our faith to be firm but to understand how this is possible we must discover something that is not taught by the flesh. The mind is flesh and must be subdued to the will of God by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 12:3 For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.

Faith is measured out to everyone according to God’s will, not our desires. Since it is measured out and assigned, we should receive it as a gracious gift from God, unmerited favor.

Matthew 25:14-30

The Parable of the Talents tells us in verse 15, “To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability.” We are given faith by measure according to our ability to handle and use this faith accordingly.

16 “He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more.” Immediately the one with five invested his faith and received an increase on his  investment. Likewise was the one who received two. The man who received only one invested his in the world, where there was no return on investment.

It is obvious that where we invest our faith is more important than the measure of faith that we have been assigned.

21 His master said to him,”‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.” This was said to both the one with five and two, no difference in results. At this point I will stop long enough to comment that the Lord did not tell them to reinvest their faith, once was enough to enter into the joy of the Lord. Place your faith in the Lord where it will do good.

To the one unfaithful servant the result was  30 “And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Jesus is Lord of everyone, even the unbelieving.