I think God
is busy teaching me something around faith. He keeps brining me back to Hebrews
11 and He seem to keep pointing me to the faith that is described by the writer
through the lives of the people in the Bible. That is why He is saying to us
this morning that we have been invited to live in something better that what those
guys had and that is faith’s fullness.
Faith is
believing in something before you have received it and I know my battles will
increase and my attacks will get more. Believe me the enemy is using all his
cards to keep me from living in my purpose and doing what I have been called to
do.
I want to
use Shadrach, Mesarch and Abednego as an example. We know they did not want to
bow down to the statue and that Nebuchadnezzar asked his men to increase the furnace
seven time more than usual. The bible says that the men who threw them in the
furnace was consumed by the fire so hot it was. Once in the fire there was a
fourth man with them in the fire walking around.
Now, when
we face the fires of life (the attacks), the enemy will increase it more and
more and even when it is increased God will intervene and our enemies will be destroyed
(consumed) by God’s fire and in the midst of this fire (storm) we will rise and
He (Jesus) will walk in it and through it with us.
My friend,
Jesus said if you have faith the size of a mustard seed you can move a mountain
and everything we ask in faith He will give us. I am reminded of this verse in
Matthew 7, “If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good
gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good
gifts to those who ask him!”.
If we know how to take care of our children, how much more
will our father take care of us. Jesus on a more than one occasion said to the disciples
that their faith is lacking. So, Jesus is saying to you and me today, “You of
little faith,” he said, “why did you doubt?”.
My dear
friend, God is saying, “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and
courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God
will be with you wherever you go” (Joshua 1:9).
Do not allow what you are facing and what you are going through
to alter your direction or influence your faith. In fact, be more tenacious in
your faith and trust God because He said, “Take delight in the LORD, and he
will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD; trust in
him and he will do this: He will make your righteous reward shine like the
dawn, your vindication like the noonday sun”.
I love you my friend, have an awesome day.









