Nothing quenches the work of the Spirit like unbelief. And nothing releases the Spirit like faith. Did you know that you can do almost anything by faith? I mean anything! President Dwight D. Eisenhower once told about the Allied invasion of Europe during World War II, codenamed Operation Overlord. He said, “From the beginning we knew that we were going to win. We didn’t know it factually. We knew it by faith.”
I have heard of doing a lot of things by faith, but I had never heard of winning a military campaign in that way. What did he mean by “we knew it by faith?” He meant that they were so convinced that the victory was theirs that they launched an attack. They believed and therefore they committed the troops to action. They claimed the victory by faith.