By Sherita Jones | The Anointing Grace
When you hear the term rich faith, what comes to your mind?
Most people picture confidence, blessings, answered prayers, a life that looks put together.
But let’s talk about what rich faith really looks like, the kind nobody posts about, the kind you don’t even recognize in yourself.
Because the truth is this:
Your life has been heartache, suffering, loss, pain, and injustice. You’ve carried more than anyone knows. You’ve walked through things that should have broken you. You’ve had every reason to give up, every reason to stop fighting, every reason to go back to what’s familiar and comfortable.
And yet… somehow… you still show up.
You still show up for others when your own world is quietly collapsing around you. You still smile when your heart is heavy. You still serve when you feel empty. You still give when nothing is being poured back into you.
People see your strength, but they don’t see the depth of what you’re surviving.
And still, you praise God. You seek Him. You hold on to Him. You cry out to Him, not always for deliverance, but because you just need Him close. You pour out your heart not to escape the trial, but to make sure you’re pleasing Him in it. You ask Him to search you, to show you if you’ve done something unknowingly. You ask for understanding, for clarity, for strength to endure whatever He has allowed, just so you might know Him more deeply.
But instead of relief, sometimes you’re met with
silence.
Unanswered prayers.
More pressure.
More injustice.
Increased warfare.
Eventually the prayers stop forming as words, and all you have left are tears. But don’t get it twisted, those tears are prayer. Tears are a language Heaven is fluent in.
And somehow, somehow, you still get up every single day and choose to do what is right in the sight of the Lord. You still choose righteousness when you could choose revenge. You still choose faith when doubt whispers loudly. You still choose obedience when it costs you something, or when it’s cost you almost everything.
And deep down you wonder:
Will my life ever get better?
Will the table ever turn in my favor?
Will my faith ever produce anything I can physically see?
You have every reason to give up, but you don’t.
That is rich faith.
Rich faith isn’t always loud.
It isn’t always confident.
It isn’t always pretty.
Sometimes it’s just breath in your body and tears in your eyes, and yet you still say “Lord, I trust You.”
Your faith is carrying people you don’t even see.
It is sustaining others without you knowing it.
Many are being fed, strengthened, and encouraged because of the richness of faith you walk in, even in your own darkness.
When you’ve been stripped of everything,
When life has humbled you in ways no one will ever fully understand, When you’ve lost almost everything, When it should be impossible for you to be in your right mind, And you STILL give God glory?
That is rich faith, the kind only God can measure.
It’s like walking in complete darkness, unable to see your own hands in front of you, yet you keep moving forward.
You keep maturing.
You keep growing.
You keep enduring.
This faith can’t be taught.
This faith can’t be faked.
This faith can’t be bought.
This faith can only be cultivated.
This is faith with roots.
Faith with history.
Faith that waits well, and let me give you a disclaimer:
Tears do NOT mean you’re not waiting well.
They don’t mean you’re weak.
They don’t mean you’re failing.
If all you can offer in prayer are tears, then tears are enough.
God hears what your mouth can’t form.
This faith has been tested.
This faith has been proven.
This faith survives misunderstanding, misjudgment, and being overlooked.
This faith digs deeper in the waiting.
This faith isn’t impressed by hype, shouting, or emotional highs.
Rich faith is moved by:
Encounter. Revelation. And His Word.
And at the end of the day, obedience, quiet, costly, consistent obedience, is the evidence of rich faith.
So if you’re walking through your season feeling broken, silent, overlooked, or stretched beyond your limits,
Just know this:
You don’t just have faith.
You have rich faith.
And Heaven sees it all.
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