A fuller understanding of the "faith in your faith" teaching includes the idea that "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." The faith we have is actually the spirit of Christ in us having the faith. The new creation that has been born into us is having the faith. So when we say we "have faith in our own faith" we are actually saying is that "it is not I that believes, it is Christ that believes inside me." It is not I that loves, it is Christ that loves in me..etc... Those who are against this idea either do not have confidence in the new man, or they do not understand who they really are. The cornerstone of E.W. Kenyon's teaching was "the new man, who he is and what he can do." It is just another way of saying "what does it mean to be 'in Christ'?" It is at this point where Hagin picks up and begins his teachings on the new creation and what it means to be "in Christ." His book "The Authority of the Believer" actually quotes Kenyon at length on this very subject. Outside of this, I am often surprised that people would be upset about having faith in their faith. Should we doubt our faith? Should we not believe that the method that God has supplied us to gain favor with Him is in fact a reliable and successful method? Of course I want to have faith in my faith. I want to know that it does what God said it would do. In the natural, don't we want to have faith in our legs and arms? When a mother holds her baby does she not want to have confidence that her arms are going to have the strength and co-ordination to keep that baby safe? When we walk across a log or along the edge of a cliff, don't we exercise a certain amount of faith in our own legs and co-ordination that we are not going to fall over? I find it an odd argument that some would come against this idea when it comes to faith, love, or any of the abilities that God has given to us. In the end, I think this argument betrays a misunderstanding about faith in the minds of those who make it. Faith is not some mystical or supernatural ability that exists as a plasma force in some alternate dimension. Faith is words, and those words issue forth from God. It is not mystical or supernatural. It is spiritual and it is where the natural meets the spiritual. This is yet another instance where WoF teachings are being misjudged because of the lack of knowledge in those who presume to judge it. They apply their own misunderstandings to our teachings and draw incorrect conclusions. We believe that to have faith in God means to have faith in His words. Without words, there is no faith. What you describe here is what I refer to as "general faith." It basically says that we will accept whatever comes as being the will of God, and to be faithful means to endure it in obediance. This sort of faith says "God is in control of everything" and so everything that happens must be a direct reflection of the will of God... else He is not in control. In this definition, there is no room for the existance of doubt in man. All one has to do to "have faith" is to take whatever comes... which is exactly what you would get if you had no faith at all. In this, faith is reduced to a devotional exercise that (1) accomplishes nothing in the life of the believer, (2) does not please God, and (3)serves only to make the doubter feel good about himself.	PORN Death FIRE Logosystem