God needs faith? Hard to believe!

Let us all accept the fact that faith properly begins from God if it has to be faith that saves. It is equally true that people are going into destruction because they refuse to believe. Man has no excuse to claim that he was not given faith to believe. Faith seems to be the vital link between man and God. All the more reason for us to have a well rounded picture of faith. It is not uncommon in the churches to have different views on this most important virtue, especially the origins of faith. One of the views I find being preached is that we need to have the faith of God. I hope what they mean is the faith that Jesus had when He was here on earth. Because it is absurd to think of God having faith. I have even heard messages that said God believed that His Word would perform its work when He spoke the world into existence. And that is why it happened! We are placing faith above God.
       Another disturbing trend I have noticed is for believers to claim that everything they have is from God, even their faith. Nothing wrong at first until we follow their line of thinking. Somehow faith becomes less of an activity because I can have it, only if God gives it to me. A kind of passivity can creep in and I do not pay much attention to building up my faith because it is not mine! Can you see how we can be deceived if we are not careful. Some of us look at the word of God and expect some magic thing to happen because we have read that faith comes by hearing the word of God. For them, the necessity of prayer and crying out to God seems less important because I only have to believe. Believe. I have heard believers say flippantly, "I'm believing God for this. I'm believing God for that". God help us all in this journey of faith.