Are You Choosing To Stay In Faith No Matter How Things Appear To Be?

Faith is ... 

What is faith to you?   What does it mean for YOU to walk in faith?  Do you walk in faith momentarily or do you take a stand and choose to stay in faith no matter how your situation appears to be?   

Do you believe God and what He has said?  Do you trust Him?    Are your words words of faith?   Are they in alignment with what God has said concerning your situation and life or are they words of doubt and fear?   Faith requires that you speak with faith filled words that confirm what God has said about your situation.    

Understand, fear and faith cannot abide together.   Either you are going to walk in fear or you are going to allow your faith to override your fear.   If you are walking in doubt, understand, you not walking in faith.    Faith requires that you cast down all fear and all doubt and trust God to honor His Word and works in your life.   

Remember, faith is trusting God NO MATTER WHAT people are saying and NO MATTER HOW your situation is looking.

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Philippians 1:27

King James Version (KJV)

27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

  

Will You Choose To Trust and Wait On God For Everything You Need In Life?

What’s your choice today?   God’s way or the world’s way?   Will you choose to trust God and to wait on God or will you choose to revert back to your old way of doing things.   God has a plan and His plan works a specific way in your life.   His plan and His promises are activated based on your obedience.   God will allow you to do things your way and He will step back and wait on you to decide that you are no longer going to walk in a circle of confusion where you do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result.   He will allow you to stay there until you choose to trust and to follow Him.    

If you want the blessings of God, at some point and at some time, you have to choose to make God your priority.    You have to choose to put Him first and you have to choose to trust Him completely.   You have to know that God is the giver of life and He is well equipped to give you everything you need in life.   

The children of Israel experienced God’s goodness, grace, love, and mercy.   They saw Him to them  and they experienced Him giving them provision and food supernaturally but yet they still chose to walk in disobedience.   They chose to walk in the same circle of confusion for 40 years.   They refused to give up their way of doing things even when they saw the mighty hand of God move in their lives.   They murmured, they complained, and they continued to do things their way.   

God is God all by Himself.   He doesn’t need our help to do things in our lives, He only needs our obedience, so that He can do things in our lives.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Psalm 9:10

King James Version (KJV)

10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

Are You Trusting God To The Point You Push Out All Doubt?

What is it that you need for God to do for you?   Do you need Him to heal you?   Do you need Him to provide for you?   Do you need Him to give you peace?   Do you need Him to restore your joy?   Whatever it is, God can do it.   Question is, do you trust Him to do it?

Do you trust God enough to push out doubt?   Doubt will come and doubt will talk to you.   Doubt will come in the form of questioning whether you deserve God’s blessings in your life.   Doubt will come to the point where you begin to question whether God is who He says He is.   YOU HAVE TO cast down doubt and constantly remind yourself who God is and know that He is well able to do for you and to deliver you.   

Take time to lift up your hands today and to give God praise.   Thank Him for what He has done and speak life to your situation.   Speak the Word that says that God knows EVERYTHING you have need of and He is faithful and just to supply your every need. 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION   

Isaiah 41:10

“Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.” 

Are You Staying In Faith Even When Situations Arise That Combat Your Faith? In Other Words, Are You Fighting The Good Fight Of Faith?

Why look back?  What is it behind you that can even compare to what God has prepared for you?  Just in case you didn’t know ... nothing compares to the things that God has ordained and prepared for you.   Sometimes we have thoughts in our mind that tell us it was better in the past.   It’s like the children of Israel when they were in the “process” of their deliverance, they murmured and they complained and they even said it would have been better for them to stay in bondage.    That’s not God.   God has not called for us to be in bondage to sin or slavery.    

So often in life we want to look back and remember how things were instead of standing and staying in faith for the things we need God to do.   Staying in faith is not easy because there is always something combatting our faith.  There’s always situations coming up with the intent  to cause us not to trust and believe what God has promised and we have to continuously cast down thoughts, imaginations, and everything that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and what He has promised to do in and through our lives.

What we have to understand is the fact that God wants us to look forward with expectation.   He wants us to trust in Him and have faith in His promises.   We have to know that there are things that will occur in life but God’s power overrides them all.   There is nothing too hard for God! 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Philippians 3:12-14

King James Version (KJV)

12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Are You Submitting Yourself To God So That You Are Under The Authority Of His Word and Not Your Fleshly Desire?

What is it that you need for God to do for you?   Do you need Him to heal your body?  Do you need Him to meet a need?   Do you need Him to show you the way to go?   Do you need Him to give you peace and to restore your joy?  Whatever it is that you need, you have to know that God will do it.    

The Word of God says that He is the Lord God that heals you.   So whatever it is that is going on in your body, believe God is the Healer and believe that He will heal you.    You have to submit yourself to God  so that Your body is under the authority of His Word and not your desire.   As you submit to Him, trust Him to cause everything in your body to submit to the authority of His Word and to function the way He created it to function.    

The Word of God says that He is Jehovah Jireh, our Provider, and because He provides, we know that He will meet our needs.  Everything in life doesn’t always work out the way “we” plan.   We set goals and sometimes things happen where we can’t meet those goals but we have to understand, God has a plan.   He said in His Word that He knows the plans He has for us and we have to trust Him to bring that plan to pass.   We have to believe that meeting our needs is a part of the Father’s plan.    

Understand, not only will God heal us and meet our needs, He will also lead us, guide us, give us peace, and restore our joy.   We just have to trust Him, believe Him, and have faith in Him.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

James 4:7

King James Version (KJV)

7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Is Your Total Reliance On God Knowing That He Loves You and He Has Already Made A Way For You?

What do you do when God makes a way for you?   Do you continue on the same path or do you do your best to make a mid-course correction?    God will make a way but how often do we say thank you and go about “business as usual”.   We have to start being about our Father’s business.   We have to begin to do our best to make the necessary mid-course corrections in our lives.  When we do our best to walk in obedience to God’s Word, it not only tells God we are grateful, it shows Him that we are thankful.    

We have to understand that our total reliance is on God.   He is the very air we breathe.   It is only by His power and grace that we live, breathe, and have our being.   We have to realize that without Him we would be nothing and we would have nothing.    We have to begin to look at Him and to Him and understand that He is not just a resource, He is our source.    

God loves you and there is nothing He won’t do for you.   He is watching over you and keeping you.   Trust Him to do everything else that needs to be done in your life.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Deuteronomy 28:1

Ye shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.

Are You Seeking Clarity In The Word Of God or Are You Following The Confusion of the World?

Who and what are you following?   Are you following the confusion of the world or are you seeking and following the clarity of the Word.   You have to learn how to take God at His Word and you have to trust that His Word is real.   You have to let the Word of God be the standard that you live by.   Understand, a standard is a level of quality by which you live or attain something.   

It all comes down to you trusting and believing God and His Word.  Either the Word of God is real to you or it’s not.   Either you are going to trust God or you are not.   There is no in-between!   YOU HAVE TO FIND CLARITY IN THE WORD because there is no clarity in the world.   

The world is full of confusion.   People are confused about who they are and whose they are.   They are confused about whether they should do what God said for them to do or whether they should follow the crowd.   They are confused about their identity and they are confused about what steps to take next in life.  THE WORLD IS FULL OF CONFUSION and we all have to decide that we are not going to follow the confusion and make up in our minds that we are going to allow the Word of God to be our guide.    

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Acts 26:18

King James Version (KJV)

18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

Are You Trusting God Completely or Are You Trusting Him In Partiality?

Didn’t you know?   Didn’t you know that God is good and that He is faithful?  Didn’t you know that He has promised to take care of you?   Didn’t you know that He promised to never leave you nor forsake you?   If you knew, why are you still trying to work it out on your own?

The answer to knowing is it’s human nature.   It is a part of human nature to try to figure it all out and then to try to work it all out.   Instead of trusting God “completely”, we trust Him in partiality.   We trust Him to the extent that we see Him.   If we can’t see God moving, we tend to want to make things move ourselves but that is not faith. 

God has required us to walk by faith.   He wants us to see our situation through eyes of faith.   He wants us to believe that He is working everything in our lives together for our good based on faith.    Remember, faith is believing and trusting in what you cannot see.   You cannot see God moving but you have to believe He is and you have to trust Him to do whatever needs to be done in your life.    It’s time to be still and to know that God is God.    

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

2 Corinthians 5:7

King James Version (KJV)

7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)