Function and Impact
It gives that person a certainty and assurance that God is about to act through a word or action. The wonderful thing about the gift of faith is that it wells up when you least expect it and often when you most need it. Faith is the conduit for God’s supernatural work. This supernatural expectation that God is going to move on a situation leads you to take risks to speak, pray or act into a situation. When operating in this gift, you have wonder-working faith that "moves mountains" and waits expectantly for specific results.
This gift often begins with a promise of scripture or a direct promise from the Holy Spirit that releases this unexplainable certainty and confidence. A gift of faith empowers us to speak words of command; a powerful and effective prayer in which the speaker commands, usually in a short sentence, an evil spirit or disease to leave a person. (James 5:15)
As with all spiritual gifts in this section, this grace is usually specific to a time and circumstance and in this way is distinct from the general attribute of faith that all believers possess. Faith: Knowing what you hope for, having a conviction about things you cannot see, trusting God, believing God’s Word, and obeying Him. (Hebrews 11) People with this tend to have an unshakable faith in God; they may doubt themselves but they never doubt God.
