If we are really sincere about growing in the Lord this year, and being a God pleaser as it says in Col 1:10, we have to keep using our faith muscles! Faith is what pleases God! The just shall live by faith! Without faith it is impossible to please God. We need to be faith filled believers. It means that we are learning to walk in faith, live by faith and exercise our faith on a daily basis. Living by faith isn’t an option for the believer. We are faith people. We believe. That’s who we are and that is what we do! So how can we strengthen our faith this year to be people that God would say have taken a measure of faith and developed it to the place where we are people of great faith? When we look in Matt 8 where Jesus actually said such great faith he had never seen in all of Israel, we see that the centurion said with his mouth, speak the word only and my servant will be healed. He understood the principle of authority and submission. Jesus even offered to go to the servant, but the centurion knew the power of God was available even through the word just being spoken. The revelation we can receive from this powerful message of living by faith is that there is power in the Word, but more specifically in the Word being spoken. We know there is the power of life and death in our words. Let’s be people of faith who speak life words that bring health and healing to people and situations and circumstances. What an awesome way to live!