Faith in God means putting your trust in God. People who have faith in God believe everything God says. All the great men and women of Scripture had faith in God. What it means is that irrespective of your feelings you trust God. This is with the belief that God’s thoughts and ways are superior to ours, (Isaiah 55:8). Faith of God has the idea that God trusts in something, because faith has to do with trust.
Some believe that we can have the “faith of God”. This notion arises from wrong translation of Mark 11:22 and Romans 3:22 from the original Greek text. In Mark 11:22, Jesus answering Peter said, “Have faith in God” – this is the KJV translation, which in my opinion is right. However, in other translations such as Douay-Rheims Bible and Young’s Literal Translation (LITV), this verse is translated as, “Have faith of God”. Now, this is the choice of the translators, because in the Greek version, neither the preposition “in” or “of” is there. The Greek text translated in Mark 11:22 is echo pistis Theos, which can be literally translated as “have faith God”.
The reason why we have these two translations is because they’re grammatically possible. That is to say, from the original Greek, echo pistis Theos could be translated as “Have faith in God” or “Have faith of God”. So the rendering is basically dependent upon the translators to either choose “in” or “of”
However, there is no such thing as “faith of God”. We cannot have the faith of God simply because it does not exist. In Hebrews 11, we find that faith must be expressed in something, in this case in God. To put it in simple terms, you express your faith in something or someone. To the Christian, this means that we must express our faith in God or put our faith in God. So we find that, there is no way God can have faith. The question is: Who is God going to have faith in? Unless you believe that there is something or someone greater than God. And if you believe something like this, let me plainly tell you that there is nothing or no one greater than God. God exists on His own – He is the Supreme Being.
We find out in the Bible that faith comes only by hearing the Word of God, (Romans 10:17). This is one thing we know. We also know that in order to be saved from eternal damnation, we must have faith, which is expressed through His Son Jesus Christ. The KJV also wrongly translated Romans 3:22, when it was translated as “Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ”. The Greek text translated is: pistis Iesous, which can be literally translated as “Faith Jesus”. Like I did indicate earlier, it was the choice of the translators and in this case KJV was not consistent. But I believe, the reason they did not translate it like they did in Mark 11:222, is because they thought when Jesus was in the world, he became one of us and thus have faith in God, hence the translation.
So simply put, faith is expressed in something higher and in our case, it is expressed in God. God cannot have faith, because there is nothing or no one higher than Him. We are the ones that need faith and not God.
Taken from the book: “Faith: The Only Way to Please God” by Seth Gogo Egoeh
A journey into the Scriptures with Seth Gogo and more . . . 
Hi, I Like your explanation and I now see the difference from what I heard on this topic which left me confused. Thank you
Hi. From my understanding, I can say “Faith of God” only when describing “the measure of faith” given to man by God (Romans 12:3….according as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith). The measure of faith is therefore the “faith of God” in us.
disagree with you. there is misinformation. “Have faith of God” is correct. bible says that faith is already the “substance” greek “hypostasis” an underlying reality. The foundation of the skyscraper is not visible, but the whole building stands on it. There is a faith of God Acts 3:16
its not “echo” but
And Jesus answering, saith to them, “Exete pistin theou” (Phonetic Greek). Exete – ek or ex: from, from out of
Original Word: ἐκ, ἐξ Definition: from, from out of
Hebrews 11 v 3 says God created the worlds by faith.
God poaseses faith. I disagree with you.
I do not agree with you, and see the reason why, it’s because of your definition of faith, if you follow the bibles definition of faith, you will understand why you can have the faith of God which is separate from having the faith in God, as two separate expression Hebew11;1, from the bibles definition of faith, we see that faith of God, is objective that means it does not waiver but faith in God, is what we posses and it is never complete and it makes us always look inwards which is not what christ requires of us. He what’s us to look up to him, he is the believing one. So even if our faith is small as a mustard seed, with it we can trust in the always believing one Christ,
I believe faith “OF GOD” is correct here.
1 Cor. 13:13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
If Faith remains then doesn’t it have to be Faith… of GOD? Humans are mortal beings. God and things OF HIM last forever.
Hebrews 12:12 Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith
If Jesus is author of faith and He is son (of the Triune God), then doesn’t this confirm faith is OF GOD?
God had faith that we would let Him redeem us. He bankrupted heaven for this.
To answer your question- who can God put His faith in? To that I could respond “HIMSELF” Like God did not need to swear , because every word He speaks is the Truth but He still swore by His own name, obviously because there is no one greater or above Him to swear by!
To answer your question – “Who is God going to put His Faith in”, to this I would respond “in Himself”! Like when He swore by His own Name, there was no one greater than Him to swear by , so He chose to swear by His own name! And the very fact that the Bible says that He is the Author n Perfector of our faith meaning He imparts faith to us – He has it so that’s why He can give it to us! Faith is also the fruit of the Holy Spirit, it’s one of His attributes!
Thank you for setting us straight and making the truth so clear- we must have faith IN God to receive all of His precious promises,