Faith With Shoes On
Because faith that sits still won’t change your life
The longer I walk with God, the more I’m convinced of something…
One of the weakest links in our walk with Him comes down to one word:
faith.
And not just the kind we talk about…
but the kind we actually live from.
Why?
Because the way we live tells on what we really believe.
It reveals whether our faith is just something we say…
or something we’ve actually activated.
Let me explain.
Hebrews 11:1 says:
“Faith shows the reality of what we hope for; it is the evidence of things we cannot see.”
That means faith isn’t passive.
It’s not sitting back hoping something works out.
Faith is substance.
It’s movement.
It’s action before results ever show up.
And this is where it gets real.
Because I’ve seen this play out in my own life more times than I can count.
There was a season—one that honestly stretched me more than I wanted—where God began stirring something in us. A shift. We didn’t know what it was, where it was leading, or how it would unfold… we just knew something was changing.
And if I’m being honest?
I didn’t want it.
I didn’t want another move.
I didn’t want to start over again.
I didn’t want to uproot everything we had built.
I remember thinking,
“How come everyone else gets to stay put, build roots, settle… and here I am again, feeling like You’re asking me to move?”
And I meant that.
But the missing piece in all of it?
Faith.
Not the kind that agrees with God when it’s easy…
…but the kind that trusts Him when it costs you something.
Because when we finally said yes to North Carolina, (read that story here) everything in the natural didn’t make sense. Doors were closing, houses were slipping through our fingers, and we had zero clarity.
But the moment we moved in obedience—before we saw the outcome—God met us there.
That’s what faith does.
It meets God in motion.
And you see this so clearly in Mark 5 with the woman who had the issue of blood.
Jesus highlights something so simple—but so powerful:
“For she said…”
Before anything changed in her body…
before she ever touched Jesus…
she said it.
“If I can just touch His clothes, I will be healed.”
That wasn’t wishful thinking.
That was faith speaking.
And then she moved on it.
That’s activated faith.
And this is where we’ve got to pause for a second… because this right here will expose the difference in our own lives.
John Wesley once said:
“The devil has given the church a substitute for faith that looks and sounds so much like faith, many people can’t tell the difference.”
He called it mental assent.
And honestly? That hits.
Because a lot of us know what God’s Word says.
We can quote it.
We agree with it.
We’ll even say, “Yes, that’s true.”
But agreement in your mind…
is not the same thing as faith in your heart.
Because mental agreement doesn’t move you.
It doesn’t cause you to step out.
It doesn’t cause you to speak differently.
It doesn’t cause you to live differently.
It just sits there.
But Romans 10:10 says:
“For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God…”
That’s different.
Heart faith receives.
Heart faith moves.
Heart faith acts before it sees.
And that’s what we see in Mark 5.
She didn’t just believe Jesus could heal her…
She believed it enough to move through the crowd,
reach out her hand,
and act like it was already hers.
You can say you believe God’s Word is good…
…but you don’t really know it’s good
until you’ve acted on it
and seen Him come through.
That’s the difference.
Faith isn’t just believing something is true.
It’s living like it’s true before you see it.
And I really believe this is where the Lord is refining us right now.
Not surface-level faith.
Not “I believe in God” faith.
But the kind of faith that shows up in:
– how you speak
– how you decide
– how you respond when things don’t make sense
– how you step when there’s no guarantee
Because this life of Prothesis—walking out what God already set in motion (Ephesians 1:11)—
it requires faith that moves.
Faith that says:
“I don’t see it yet… but I’m going anyway.”
And maybe that’s you right now.
Standing in a moment where God is nudging you…
and everything in you is resisting it.
I get it.
I’ve been there.
But what if the faith you’re waiting to feel…
is actually built in the step you don’t want to take?
Because at the end of the day…
Your life will always move in the direction of what you truly believe.
So the question isn’t:
“Do I have faith?”
It’s this:
Is my faith activated?
Because faith that stays in your head will never change your life…
but faith you move on?
That’s the kind that shifts everything.