24.What else does Paul mention in his prayer for the saints?

"That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith."

As we press forward in faith, Christ dwells in us to an increasing extent.

For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith (I John 5:4).

The true Christian discipleship is one of ever-increasing faith. When we are born again, that is, when Christ is born in us, that new Life brings into our personality both the desire to overcome the ways of the world and also the power to overcome the ways of the world. God places in us the desire to do His will each day and the strength necessary to accomplish the Divine will.

As we use the faith God has given us by actually doing the things God has placed before us, Christ enters us in a greater way. As Christ enters us in a greater way, His will and power grow stronger in us. We then are to walk in our new understanding and spiritual strength, doing the will of God with increased ability.

As we walk in the Spirit of God we pass from grace to new grace, from glory to new glory. Christ is increasing in us. Faith is increasing in us. The result is that we are shining as sons of God in the midst of a crooked, perverse, blind generation.

True Christian faith is demonstrated in a life that is being conformed to the image of Christ in deed, in word, in motive. Faith apart from such Kingdom works is dead. Living faith tears down and tramples on the wretched, filthy works and imaginations of the present evil age. The faith that proceeds from Christ, who is being formed in us and who is dwelling in us, conquers the world.