One section of Scripture has changed how I interpret the results of our faith. Faith is not an intellectual choice. It is a spiritual act – a seed that contains miraculous potential. It can release profound miracles that no human intellect can comprehend or create. It calls into being things we could not imagine. 

Aged Abraham and his barren wife Sarah had lived long past normal child-rearing years. Because of Abraham’s faith, they would experience an unimagined miracle with the birth of Isaac. Abraham was defined by the Lord as, “The father of all who believe” (Romans 14:16). All future generations of our faith can be linked back to the seed of faith found in Abraham’s life. 

The verse that captured my attention and helped me understand the power of faith, is verse 17 of Romans 4 where Paul defines what that faith can release. If, like Abraham, we put our faith in God when we are confronted with an impossible situation, the Lord will do something miraculous, “He gives life to the dead and calls into being things that do not exist.”

Our faith in God can raise dead things to life and call into being something that our natural minds would see as humanely impossible.  Miracles will appear out of nothing that is present in our circumstance.

Never underestimate the power of the smallest seed of faith. That faith can raise dead things back to life and call miracles to happen out of nothing seen or imagined in this world.