Look in Romans again, 12th chapter, third verse, Romans 12 and 3.

He said, I say through the grace given to me to every man that's among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, according as God has dealt

to every man, the measure of faith.

The measure of faith.

Down in verse six, he said, having then gifts differing according to the grace

that's given to us, whether prophecy let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith.

And then it's understood the next verse, every one of these phrases he makes, he's saying,

you do that, just like you prophesy, in proportion of your faith.

Verse seven, ministry, wait on your ministering.

How?

In proportion to your faith.

Teaching, how are you going to do that?

In proportion to your faith, Teaching, how are you going to do that? In proportion to your faith,

just like prophecy. The next part, exhortation, how will you exhort? You won't exhort or teach or preach or prophesy beyond your faith. You won't do it beyond your faith.

Just like you won't speak in tongues beyond your faith.

You won't prophesy beyond your faith.

If you don't believe in it, if you don't expect utterance, you won't step out.

It won't happen.

And you can believe wrongly that it's just not for you or that God just doesn't do that for everybody, but it was a lack of faith on your part.

He that gives, let him do it with simplicity and, again, in proportion to your faith.

Your giving is tied directly to your faith, to your measure or proportion of faith.

He that rules with diligence.

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