Our faith does not make GOD do anything. Our unbelief hinders our faith and therein lies the problem.
Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Philemon chapter 1:
6 And I pray that the participation in and sharing of your faith may produce and promote full recognition and appreciation and understanding and precise knowledge of every good thing that is already ours in our identification with Christ Jesus and unto His glory.
When we were born again, FATHER deposited everything we need to fulfill our individual callings as written in our individual books as noted in Psalm 139:16. The Trinity did not need our input to what would be included in those books. They intended for us to fulfill our part in the Body of Christ so they made all resources available before they formed us in the womb. This includes The Measure of Faith residing on the inside of each of us.
We must acknowledge and appropriate the measure of faith residing on the inside of each of us. There is a difference between faith in its potential versus faith in full appropriation and action. When I describe someone who has little or no faith, it is due to their lack of operating in faith, not that they are void of its potential.
Matthew recorded by The Holy Spirit in Matthew chapter 17:
14 They came to where a large crowd had gathered to wait for Jesus. A man came and knelt before Him 15 and said, “Lord, please show your tender mercy toward my son. He has a demon who afflicts him. He has epilepsy, and he suffers horribly from seizures. He often falls into the cooking fire or into the river. 16 I brought him to your followers, but they weren’t able to heal him.”
17 Jesus replied, “Where is your faith? Can’t you see how wayward and wrong this generation is? How much longer do I stay with you and put up with your doubts (unbelief)? Bring your son to me.”
18 Then Jesus rebuked the demon and it came out of him and the boy was instantly healed!
19 Later the disciples came to him privately and asked, “Why couldn’t we cast out the demon?”
The issue was not the disciples’ faith for they (by faith) had been healing the sick up to this point. In Matthew chapter 10, Jesus instructed the disciples:
1 Jesus called his twelve disciples together and gave them authority to cast out evil spirits and to heal every kind of disease and illness.
8 Heal the sick, raise the dead, cure those with leprosy, and cast out demons. Give as freely as you have received!
This is why the asked Jesus the question. Jesus responded:
20 He told them, “It was because of your unbelief. I promise you, if you have faith inside of you no bigger than the size of a small mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move away from here and go over there,’ and you will see it move! There is nothing you couldn’t do!
21 But this kind of unbelief is removed (cast out) only through prayer and fasting.”
Faith differs from unbelief. Jesus explained that faith need not be any bigger than the smallest seed for it will be sufficient to cast out the demon. However, their issue was unbelief. How do you remove unbelief? It is done by prayer and fasting. I am responsible for removing unbelief, not FATHER. I must ask HIM to show me where my issues, weaknesses, and/or hindrances are at then deal with them.
When I fast, I am not convincing FATHER to move or act on my behalf. I am removing those hindrances to my faith. The disciples were moved by what they saw the demon do to the man’s son and they were moved to unbelief. Do you think that demons are not aware of this trick to convince us our faith was not enough? Jesus was not moved by the demon’s shenanigans and he cast the demon out.
We cannot be moved by what we see, hear, touch, smell, or taste. The world wants us to develop these senses and make them the predominant thoughts in our life. This is why most people walk by the flesh and not by The Spirit. In order to subdue our flesh, we must fast and cut off the focus on the five senses. When we do this, our unbelief moves toward zero and then there is nothing we couldn’t do in Jesus’ own Words.