Living faith is active and not passive. Living faith works. It does God's will and obeys God's word in the Bible. Living faith is God working through us. God can do anything that He chooses to do without us. However, God has chosen to work through us. Living by faith does more than talk. "As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also" (James 2:26).
Don't think that faith does nothing, and depends upon God to do everything. The Bible teaches that we are laborers together with God (1 Corinthians 3:9). It is God's will for faith to work through us. You may put a glove on your hand to do the work before you. The glove does not do the work alone, neither can it. The hand works through the glove. So, living faith is God working through us.
Dead faith says, "There is nothing that we can do. What will be, will be. Nothing we can do will make any difference." Living faith says otherwise, "I will do the word of God. He has put it in my heart. He is working through me to the praise of his glory. I am a doer of the word." The Bible says, "But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves" (James 1:22).
Maybe you are in a place where you are asking God to do something about it. To the contrary, you could pray this way. "God, what would you have me to do?" Faith does the word of God. It rises up to do something about it. Living faith is God working in you to do his will (Philippians 2:12-13).
