During a word study the Lord revealed to me that there are different measures of faith, and that our faith can grow. But the most important thing that he revealed was that we hinder our own faith by doing these five things ( Being afraid, doubting, reasoning among ourselves, unbelief, and reasoning within our hearts ). All five of these things carne right out of Jesus’ mouth. I have put together these five different instances so that you can see them together and have highlighted the words that I want you to pay close attention to. After these verses I have also put together some other verses that back up what I am talking about with different measures of faith and how the Word tells us that our faith can grow. These verses are taken out of the King James Version for that is the version that the Lord revealed this to me. Some other versions change the wording a little bit which takes away the effect some what. Not that you won’t get the meaning though, so look up these verses with whatever Bible the Lord has you using. I do believe that you should read the verses before and after these so that you will completely understand who he is speaking to and what is going on at the time when he is speaking.

Matthew 8:26

And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, 0 ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.

Matthew 14:31

And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, 0 thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?

Matthew 16:8

Which when Jesus perceived, he saith unto them, 0 ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves because ye have brought no bread?

Matthew 17:20

And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.

Mark 2:5-8

When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee. But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God only? And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?

What hinders our Faith

Now that you have read these verses you will notice that Jesus kept on saying 0 ye of little faith, lets emphasize that word Little so that you will notice that everytime he used it, he was showing them their lack of faith. In this first verse that I am going to put down notice what Jesus says to the Centurion about his faith. That he has GREAT FAITH!!!! Wouldn’t you like Jesus to say that about you? Where is your faith at, and are you doing anything about making it grow, as even Jesus grew in stature with men and GOD.

Matthew 8:5-10

And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him. The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. When Jesus heard it, he marveled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.

Luke 2:52

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.

II Peter 1:4-10

Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure; for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: