ఆత్మీయ స్వస్తత Seven steps to increase the faith 1. Read the promises in bible: Bible is full of promises. It has the premises for all kinds of sick people. In bible we can see the promises for 1) Sinners, 2) Poor 3) Sick, 4) Unbelievers 5) People who suffer with fear. It has the promises for all kinds of professionals like business, job, farming, lawyers etc. One can read from the book of Mathew 5, 6, 7 chapters, from the book of Hebrews 11 and 12 chapters, psalms 25th chapter, Joshua 1st chapter. Your faith on god will increase if you read these chapters. This is the easiest step.
2. Read the bible: Read a book from the bible whichever you like more till your faith increases. George Muller who has great faith on God used to follow this strategy. He read bible for 200 times. He used to read bible completely for four times in a year. He said ‘I saw that the most important thing I had to give myself to the reading of the bible (the word of God) and meditation of it.
3. Praise God: Praising God is easy when you have faith. It is difficult for you to praise God, if your faith on God goes down. Then you should strive and force yourselves to praise God. We can use praising words like, Praise God, Glory to God, Hallelujah, Thank you lord for your kindness, mercy, love and your Devine qualities etc., we can also read praise psalms or sing praise songs.
4. Praise in spirit: 1 Corinthians 14:15 Paul said, I will praise god in spirit. When we start praising God, we will praise with our understanding. But when we praise more and more the spirit in us will start praising with our understanding. As long as we praise with our own understanding it will not be that great. We will be filled with happiness when we praise god in spirit. Then the praise will be continued like a flow. 5. Preach the Gospel: Jesus said to his disciples to preach the gospel. It’s responsibility of every believer to preach the gospel. Preach the gospel at-least to one person in a day. When we start preaching the gospel the Devine spirit will start teaching you. 6. Cross or troubles: sometimes we will be lazy, that sluggishness goes away when something difficult happens. Sadhu Sundar singh: whenever he was lazy, he used to ask God to send him a trouble. Only when there is a trouble, does the actual groaning prayer come to the brain!
7. Waiting hour(Isiah 40:31 & 64:4): In Luke 17:5, the apostles prayed to Jesus to increase their faith. We should also ask God & wait in his presence to increase faith. Our own trails will be stopped. God will give you message, praise and faith. Sometimes you will have no interest to read the bible, praise God, and preach the gospel then you need to “Wait upon God”.
All problems get solved in the hour of waiting and all your difficult questions find the answer. It is mentioned in the Bible that we have to wait upon god on any issue. This will be clear to us if we read the verses in the Bible concerning ‘Waiting’. The time that we have to wait till the fulfillment of a desire in our minds, may not be just an hour but can be even half-an-hour!
