Fix Your Eyes on Jesus — That’s How You Walk on Water

I’m excited to put this in your hands today — because I’m about to show you something from the Word of God that is going to settle an argument you may have had in your own head for years.

You’ve probably told yourself — or heard someone else say — “I just don’t have faith like that.” And today I want to dismantle that lie completely. Because the issue is not how much faith you have. The issue is what you’re doing with the faith you already have.

Every born-again believer already has world-overcoming faith.

Romans 12:3 says God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. And people use that verse to excuse weak faith — “Well, God just gave me a smaller measure than He gave you.” But that argument falls apart the moment you read 1 John 5:4:

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world — our faith.— 1 John 5:4 (NKJV)

Whatever measure you have — it was enough to overcome the world. That’s not my opinion. That’s the Word of God. The moment you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you received faith sufficient to overcome anything the world throws at you.

So the problem is not the measure. The problem is the operation. It’s not that you don’t have the right equipment. It’s that you may not know how to use it yet.

Think of it like this. Two people can pick up the exact same pistol, the exact same caliber, and one of them puts every round exactly where it needs to go while the other has holes scattered all over the paper. Same gun. Different result. The difference is skill, training, and focus — not the weapon itself.

Strong faith and weak faith come down to one thing: what you consider.

Romans 4:19 tells us about Abraham: “And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.”

The Bible is telling you the mechanism. Weak faith considers the wrong thing. Strong faith refuses to let anything rank higher than the Word of God.

I want to take you to a story that illustrates this better than anything else I know. Matthew 14. The disciples are in a boat. Jesus told them to go to the other side. Now they’re in the middle of the sea, the wind is contrary, the waves are crashing, and they’re not going anywhere. In the fourth watch of the night — the darkest hour — Jesus walks out to them on the water.

They think He’s a ghost. And immediately He speaks: “Be of good cheer. I am. Do not be afraid.”

Not just “it is I.” I am. He’s everything you need Him to be. And right there in the middle of your storm, He’s saying the same thing to you today.

Peter got out of the boat — and that changed everything.

Peter answered Him: “Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water.” And Jesus said one word: “Come.”

On the basis of one word — not a long promise, not a detailed plan — just one word from Jesus, Peter stepped out of a boat in the middle of a raging storm and walked on water.

And when Peter had come down out of the boat, he walked on the water to go to Jesus.— Matthew 14:29 (NKJV)

While Peter was focused on Jesus and His Word alone, he was able to do everything Jesus told him to do. The storm was still there. The wind was still blowing. The waves were still rolling. Nothing about the storm had changed. The only thing that changed was what Peter was considering. He was locked in on one thing — Jesus — and that was enough to break the laws of physics.

Then something shifted — and it wasn’t the storm.

The Bible says that when Peter “saw the wind was boisterous, he was afraid.” And he began to sink.

But the wind wasn’t new. That same wind had been blowing the whole time. It was the same storm that was there when he got out of the boat. The waves were no bigger. The sea was no more dangerous.

The only thing that changed was what Peter considered.

He took his eyes off Jesus and put them on the storm — and he started going under. That is exactly what happens in your life and mine. When we shift our focus from the Word of God to the problem, our faith weakens. Not because the problem got bigger. Because what we’re considering changed.

This is the same principle Abraham operated in. Had Abraham begun to consider his own dead body and the deadness of Sarah’s womb above the promise of God, it would not have worked. The promise hadn’t failed — but his focus would have.

Quit staring at the wind. Look at Jesus and His Word.

What are you considering right now? The diagnosis? The bill collector? The situation that has not moved in months or years?

I’m not telling you the storm isn’t real. I’m telling you the storm is not the deciding factor. Jesus and His Word are the deciding factor — and that will never change.

Whatever it is you’re believing God for today, lock your eyes on Him. Feed on the promise He gave you. Speak it. Expect it. Refuse to let the wind and the waves rank above what God has said.

Strong faith isn’t a personality trait. It’s a focus. Fix your eyes on Jesus — and get out of the boat.

Fight To Win. Start today.