Have you ever spent an agonizing night wrestling with the thought that if you had only had enough faith a friend might not have died; a loved one might have been saved; or a child might not be ill?

If there is one thing that can plague God's people night after night, it's the fear that you don't have enough faith...enough faith to succeed for God, enough faith for your prayers to be effective, or enough faith to see God's will done in your own life or in the lives of those you love.

Tonight don't let Satan deceive you into thinking that faith is something that you have to lie awake nights working up: that it's something that takes a big struggle to achieve, or something you should feel guilty about not having.

It's not your faith that's effective at all. It's the supernatural faith of God which He gives you that has the power. As the Apostle Paul prayed, "Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit" (Romans 15:13, NKJV).

Stop striving within yourself! The seed of His faith was put in you when you were born again. Exercise it! Lay hold of it! He wants your guilt and your desperate struggles to end. Tonight He has set you free. Rejoice in the faith you already have!

Heavenly Father, I praise You that I have been set free by Your truth concerning faith. Help me to exercise and lay hold of the faith You have already given me. Bring my striving and my guilt to an end. Instead let me now rest in the fact that, as I pray without doubting, Your will, will be done. In Jesus' Name, Amen.