Faith has several actions – faith believes, faith stands its ground in the face of opposition (fights the good fight of faith), and faith receives the manifestations. But faith also holds fast to what it has received.

     Bible faith isn’t only interested in receiving, but it’s interested in every action of faith. Bible faith refuses to lose anything it has received from God! Everything you receive from God, the devil is going to try to steal from you.

     When something is received from God, but then seems to diminish or decline – if healing or increase is seemingly diminishing, where is the leak? What’s the remedy? HOLD FAST!

     Hebrews 1:1-3 reads, “God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.”

     All that God created still had to be upheld.

     First Thessalonians 5:21 instructs us to, “Prove all things; HOLD FAST that which is good.” “Hold fast” means to hold hard.

     Ongoing feeding on the Word is what enables us to HOLD FAST. Anytime we have backed up on standing our ground, we quit hearing as much as needed.

     Kenneth E. Hagin tells of his healing testimony. After he was raised up off his deathbed from an incurable heart condition, heart symptoms again began to return. He didn’t know where he was missing it. But then one day he saw it. He had received his healing, but then when he started feeling heart symptoms try to come back, he would talk about how his heart symptoms were coming back. He realized that this was where he was missing it – he wasn’t holding fast. He had two confessions; he was saying he was healed, but then talking about his heart symptoms. After he learned to only have ONE confession, instead of two opposing ones, all his heart symptoms again left.

     After he was raised up, the doctor still said that he would be dead in 90 days, for the doctor thought he was only up by willpower. Brother Hagin said, “I’m not up by willpower, but I’m up by faith – and MY FAITH WILL HOLD!” I like that – my faith will hold!

     Once the spirit of faith is in place and you are confident something is yours, don’t back up – hold fast to what is yours!

     Hebrews 3:5 & 6 reads, “And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.”

     If we’re holding fast, we’re rejoicing. Rejoicing helps us to hold fast.

     Revelation 2:25 instructs, “But that WHICH YE HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED HOLD FAST till I come.” We ALREADY HAVE healing, supply, victory, and all the things Jesus purchased for us. We don’t just hold fast to things that have manifested, but we also hold fast to all that He provided, whether or not it has manifested. Hold fast to what God says is yours!

     We are to master our confession – where only one confession is made. To master our confession also involves mastering our thought life.

     Faith can receive a miracle, but it’s a continuous, ongoing exercise of faith that maintains and holds fast to what has been received.