Sometimes we like to complain to God about how we don’t see anything manifesting, but many times we’re the hindrance to our own deliverance and blessings. Our doubt and unbelief can cause God’s promises for us to be hindered and/or delayed. Why? Because there is unbelief. God doesn’t operate with a person’s unbelief, but rather their belief in His ability to do specifically what He said He would do.
I want to let you know that just because you can’t see physically what’s happening in the spiritual realm doesn’t mean nothing is happening. This is where our continuous faith in the Lord takes place and is tested. Faith is the substance of things hope for and the evidence of things NOT SEEN. This scripture tells us that faith requires us to believe in what we do not see. This scripture also, in my opinion, lets us know that we can’t make a judgement call based upon what our eyes do or do not see; though we may not see what’s happening physically right away, spiritually (by faith) it’s already done and it’s just awaiting for its appointed time by the Lord to happen physically. However, you become a hindrance to yourself when you start to doubt and second guess what God has told you.
In many of the scriptures given in the Bible, when a person confronted Jesus with his or her problem or need, notice that Jesus says, “thy faith has made thee whole”, “according to thy faith you are healed”. On the other side of this, we also see that Jesus won’t move or perform miracles when doubt and unbelief are dwelling within a person. Furthermore, when God tells you, “your healed” “your delivered” “your saved”; you must believe and receive that at that very moment it is done. You may say, “it doesn’t feel like it was done”, but know that our feelings are deceiving. If it was okay to go based upon how we felt, the Bible wouldn’t urge us to crucify our flesh daily. There are times when I don’t feel saved, but I know it’s the devil at work. There are times when I don’t feel like reading the Bible, but I read it because that’s the only way to know the Word of God which is to know God. Don’t go based on how you feel, go based upon who made the promise. We all fall short of the glory of God. Friends and family may not always fulfill their promises, but the Word of the Lord never comes back to Him void and unaccomplished.
So today I encourage you, as I encourage myself also, to be obedient to God. Whatever God said to you, praise God for it already being done because it is indeed done (praise Him in advance). Know that the enemy will play with what you can’t see being manifested; this is why you must read the Word of God. For you must “replenish” and increase your faith, and this only comes by reading and hearing the Word of God. When the enemy comes and feeds you doubt, rebuke that spirit and rebuke him in Jesus name, and praise God all the more for the blessing He’s bringing your way. Continue to bless the Lord, even when you think nothing is happening –when it really is. Stand on the spoken Word of God and on His promises and rest in Him knowing that unlike us, when God makes a promise, you can rest assure knowing it’s already done.
The Word keeps our spirit fed so we will have the strength we need to fight a good fight, keep the faith, and finish the race. The Word helps us to understand better, and more and more as the days go by, Who God, Jesus, and Holy Spirit are and what relationship we should have with them.
When we sit down in a chair we trust it to hold us up. Why can't we trust God, the Creator, Who created the being that made that chair!
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. Heb 11:1 (NIV)
I want to let you know that just because you can’t see physically what’s happening in the spiritual realm doesn’t mean nothing is happening. This is where our continuous faith in the Lord takes place and is tested. Faith is the substance of things hope for and the evidence of things NOT SEEN. This scripture tells us that faith requires us to believe in what we do not see. This scripture also, in my opinion, lets us know that we can’t make a judgement call based upon what our eyes do or do not see; though we may not see what’s happening physically right away, spiritually (by faith) it’s already done and it’s just awaiting for its appointed time by the Lord to happen physically. However, you become a hindrance to yourself when you start to doubt and second guess what God has told you.
In many of the scriptures given in the Bible, when a person confronted Jesus with his or her problem or need, notice that Jesus says, “thy faith has made thee whole”, “according to thy faith you are healed”. On the other side of this, we also see that Jesus won’t move or perform miracles when doubt and unbelief are dwelling within a person. Furthermore, when God tells you, “your healed” “your delivered” “your saved”; you must believe and receive that at that very moment it is done. You may say, “it doesn’t feel like it was done”, but know that our feelings are deceiving. If it was okay to go based upon how we felt, the Bible wouldn’t urge us to crucify our flesh daily. There are times when I don’t feel saved, but I know it’s the devil at work. There are times when I don’t feel like reading the Bible, but I read it because that’s the only way to know the Word of God which is to know God. Don’t go based on how you feel, go based upon who made the promise. We all fall short of the glory of God. Friends and family may not always fulfill their promises, but the Word of the Lord never comes back to Him void and unaccomplished.
So today I encourage you, as I encourage myself also, to be obedient to God. Whatever God said to you, praise God for it already being done because it is indeed done (praise Him in advance). Know that the enemy will play with what you can’t see being manifested; this is why you must read the Word of God. For you must “replenish” and increase your faith, and this only comes by reading and hearing the Word of God. When the enemy comes and feeds you doubt, rebuke that spirit and rebuke him in Jesus name, and praise God all the more for the blessing He’s bringing your way. Continue to bless the Lord, even when you think nothing is happening –when it really is. Stand on the spoken Word of God and on His promises and rest in Him knowing that unlike us, when God makes a promise, you can rest assure knowing it’s already done.
The Word keeps our spirit fed so we will have the strength we need to fight a good fight, keep the faith, and finish the race. The Word helps us to understand better, and more and more as the days go by, Who God, Jesus, and Holy Spirit are and what relationship we should have with them.
When we sit down in a chair we trust it to hold us up. Why can't we trust God, the Creator, Who created the being that made that chair!
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. Heb 11:1 (NIV)
