Faith is an adventure. But you won't be going on any adventure by just talking about it. You've got to get up and go! You can confess until you are blue in the face, but if you don't reach out there and possess what God has given you, you won't have it. Try mixing that confession with possession and you'll see something happen! Just like attitude and action, confession and possession work together. You really can't separate them at all.
God's Way Is the Right Way!
The first thing you have to accept is that God's way is the right way. He established the power of faith, so it works His way, not your way. If you want to see a manifestation of God's power in your life, you have to use faith His way. And that means renewing your mind so that you can start to think more like Him.
You can't live by faith with an unrenewed mind. That's why time in the Word and time with the Lord in prayer is so important. They renew your mind so that you can fully grasp faith. If you don't take time to get to know the Lord, if you don't take time to renew your mind with His Word, then you will find yourself becoming double-minded, going back and forth between doubt and faith. And that's miserable! It isn't faith and it won't bring results!
So do you want to understand how faith really works? Great! Here it is: First you get a good attitude of belief. You believe with your heart until you can see that manifestation on the inside of you. Then, you act on your good attitude of faith by taking opportunities that God gives you. You don't sit around aimlessly waiting.
You act by doing what you can in the natural, believing God through your prayers, actions and speech, and you allow Him to do what He can in the supernatural. Once you really believe and aren't aimlessly waiting (which is attitude without action), once you bring your faith into the now (with attitude and action), then the manifestation of what you've already been seeing with your spirit comes to fruiting in the natural world. In a nutshell, that's faith!