I wasn’t fully aware of how I operated in the area of dreams until I had lunch one day with an evangelist friend. “I’ve been watching you for several years,” he said. “You say you’re going to go to New York City and meet with the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and it actually comes to pass. You say that you’re going to go to India and preach to a million people, and it actually comes to pass. You say you’re going to go preach to the Kremlin Palace in Moscow, and it comes to pass. You say you’re going to speak at the 43rd General Assembly of the United Nations at the peace conference, and it comes to pass.”
He paused, looked me in the eye, and asked, “Do you know how you do what you do?” “No, I don’t,” I replied. “It’s found in 1 Corinthians 12. It’s the gift of faith, verse nine. All believers have been given saving faith by God as the means of salvation. That’s found in Ephesians 2:8-9. But few believers operate in the gift of faith. I don’t. The Bible says to earnestly desire the best gifts. You have obviously desired this gift, and God has given it to you.”
Jesus said, “Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it” (John 14:12-14, NIV). In Mark 11:23, Jesus also taught, “Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them.”
In my view, the greatest gift Jesus operated in was a gift of faith. One of the things I realized about the gift of faith is that you don’t just receive it and it stays with you. The gift of faith can come on you in an astonishing way, and when it comes, you can know in your mind what you’re believing for has already happened. You can’t differentiate the future promise from present reality. That’s why your faith is so important when it comes to your dreams. You must believe in this vivid way—and God will help you.
I have probably experienced the power of the gift of faith 30 or 40 times in my life. I don’t believe for a second that God chose to give me the gift of faith simply because I was special. I believe that those gifts are available for all believers, but you don’t hear much teaching about the gift of faith. You also don’t see many people hungering and thirsting and earnestly desiring the gift of faith. You do see people earnestly hungering and desiring other gifts of the Holy Spirit, but for some reason, the revelation of the gift of faith has been ignored by most believers.
I pray that God will open your eyes to it and that you will be able to truly have a purpose and favor and receive this glorious gift. The gift of faith is not normal faith. It’s a supernatural faith that God gives you for a special need or opportunity. It’s extraordinary, mountain-moving faith for supernatural results and in specific situations.
