He wouldn t hold something in front of us and then pull it away when we reached for it. For us to have the faith of God, it must be available to us. It must mean that we can have it. Faith is an attribute of God and it is also an attribute of all His children. God has given us the means of reaching out into the spirit realm to bring our desires into the natural realm.
Faith bridges that gap.
It is the link between God and man, between the spiritual and the natural. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Faith is a product of God, not a product of man. Jesus said, Have the faith of God. He didn t say to have the faith of Caesar, or Jesus, or Paul, or Matthew.