Doubt ISN’T WELCOMED HERE

I feel like greeting you personally. Like, give you a warm church hug (smiles)…and just ask you how you’re doing, and get to know what’s been going on in your life. Because, I just feel the household of faith, and pretty much the whole world need each other like never before. So, though I can’t get to you personally, I just want you to know that you matter to someone…not just me…there are a whole lot of people that will be happy to just meet with you, laugh with you, cry with you, pray with you…and just love up on you. So no matter what you’re going through right now, please just hang in there, for though we may never get to you personally, you’re in our hearts and prayers.

Nonetheless, we’re humans. We may forget to remember you in our prayers some days. We can’t reach deep down into your very soul. We don’t have all the answers to your heart-breaking questions. We can’t change your situation. We can’t fulfill your needs. We, definitely, can’t be all you want and desire…and that’s exactly why you, I and all of us have a heavenly Father, the Creator of all things, Who Loves us beyond anything we can ever comprehend and Whose faithfulness towards us does not change or cause darkness by turning.

And I just want to talk to you about God’s faithfulness towards us. I believe God wants you to know, believe and experience His faithfulness, like never before. I believe God wants this blog post to bring you to the place where you get to make the decision to always trust His faithfulness towards you…that’s if you’re not there already…and if you’re there, to encourage you to stay there…for all the days of your life on earth. This sounds like a whole lot, but that’s exactly what I believe God wants to do in your life.

OK, so let’s just dive right into the major problem

If God is Faithful…why the hurt…why the pain?

I could go on and on and on and on to quote scriptures that tell of God’s Faithfulness, but that’s not our issue. Our issue is not whether God says He’s faithful or not. Our issue is why we can’t seem to experience His faithfulness. Why does it seem as if He’s always far, when we need Him every close. When we need Him to show up for us, why can’t we seem to find Him? We cry, and hurt, and cry so much more, but we can’t seem to find Him.

Why?

First, He is close and will always be close to you…the breath in your lungs is a perfect proof. Then, I can’t give a blanket statement that will cover everyone, because there are different answers to the “why.” It might be because of disobedience on our path…say, God is telling us to do something and we’re refusing. Or, we are living outside His principles. Or, our desires aren’t in agreement with His will for our lives. Or, we want what we want just to satisfy our selfishness. Or, it’s on us to just rebuke the devil, but we aren’t. Or, we’re just going through our pruning process, where God is trying to cut out things from our lives to make us grow better in Him…and cutting really hurts. Or…we just don’t have absolute confidence in God’s Wisdom, Power and Goodness…in God’s Faithfulness.                     

Knowing and dealing with your own answer to the “why” is easy. You just have to ask God to help you know, and deal with it. Yes, it’s that simple, but you might have an issue believing that it’s that simple and that God can’t just come through for you like that. You may feel there’s more you need to put in to gain God’s attention. But no, it’s that simple. Just ask Him to help you know and deal with it, He’ll come through for you. More than you want to know and deal with it, He wants you to know and deal with it.

Of all of the different possible answers to the “why” I want to talk about not having absolute confidence in God’s Wisdom, Power and Goodness…in God’s Faithfulness. First, we have to understand that we can’t separate God’s faithfulness from His Word; because it is in His Word (the Bible) we see how His faithfulness is made available for us. It is in His Word we find His Wisdom, Power and Goodness.

So, where is God’s Word in your heart?

Further questions would be:

Do you believe God really exist or you’re just trying to see if He exists?

Do you believe that the Bible is the only “Holy” book where God has revealed Himself?

Do you believe that Jesus is the only door way to God?”

Do you believe that the promises in the Bible are for you?

The questions sound very simple, but are you certain about what the right answers to these questions are or you’re just a bit confused about them. If you’re just a bit confused about them, that’s a BIG issue that you need to ask the Holy Spirit to help you fix, because when we are trusting God to come through for us, and still have doubts: about His existence, about how to get to Him, about whether He will come through for us or not…we put ourselves in a position where we block God, and hence can’t get anything from Him.

James 1:5-8 says, “If any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask of the giving God [Who gives] to every one liberally and ungrudgingly, without reproaching or faultfinding, and it will be given him. Only it must be in faith that he asks, with no wavering—no hesitating, no doubting. For the one who wavers (hesitates, doubts) is like the billowing surge at sea, that is blown hither and thither and tossed by the wind. For truly, let not such a person imagine that he will receive anything [he asks for] from the Lord, [for being as he is] a man of two minds—hesitating, dubious, irresolute—[he is] unstable and unreliable and uncertain about everything (he thinks, feels, decides).”

Hebrews 11:6 says, “But without faith it is impossible to please and be satisfactory to Him. For whoever would come near to God must (necessarily) believe that God exists and that He is the Rewarder of those who earnestly and diligently seek Him (out).”

The devil knows that the above scriptures are true. So he does everything in his little world to frustrate us to the point where we begin to question and doubt God’s existence, how to get to Him and His faithfulness towards us. And he does it in a way that will make absolute sense to our senses. So, we begin to look at facts and figures. We begin to analyze times and seasons. We begin to observe the trend and the thread in our lives. We begin to bring God into logic.

But, the God we serve don’t look at facts and figures. He doesn’t live in time and seasons. He can’t follow trends. He knows the beginning of the thread that is running in your life, and He knows where it ends.  He can’t fit into logic. To Him, a thousand years is like a day, and a day like a thousand years. He could have allowed Pharaoh to just ignore the Israelites and show the Israelites another way, but He chose to part the red sea and made His people walk on dry ground…in the heart of a sea. He multiplied two fishes and five loaves of bread because He urgently needed to feed thousands. He waited until nature said Sarah couldn’t bear a child, before He gave her Isaac. The shout of His children became cannonballs that pulled down the mighty walls of Jericho. He made a virgin pregnant. He allowed Lazarus to die, and waited for him to rot before bringing him back to life. He uses the foolish things to shut up man and what man calls wisdom, and the weak things to shame the strong (SEE 1 Corinthians 1:27). His thoughts are not our thoughts, neither are His ways our ways. As the heavens are higher than the earth so are His ways higher than our ways and His thoughts than our thoughts (SEE Isaiah 55:8-9).

Let’s look at the parable of the Sower

Matthew chapter 13, Mark chapter 4 and Luke chapter 8, show Jesus teaching a very great crowd in parables. At the beginning of His teaching in all Books and chapters, we see Jesus telling the story of the Sower who went out to sow seeds. While the Sower sowed, some seeds fell along the path, others fell on ground full of rocks, and others fell among thorn-plants and then others on a well-adapted soil. The “seed” in the story represents the Word, and the different places where the seed fell on represent the hearts and minds of men. How has God’s Word fallen in your heart and mind? Is your heart and mind a well-adapted soil?

Dear one, you have to understand that for every Word God has brought your way, through any means, there was and still is a purpose for it. Where did the Word fall?  When the Word comes to you, the devil comes with his FULL force to come snatch it away from you: by reinforcing trials, temptations and persecutions, making life pleasures to glitter brighter so you crave for them like never before, and bringing you to the point where you are almost conceived that God doesn’t care about you. The ultimate goal of all the attacks is to make you drop the Word…so you don’t get to see God for Who He is and what He can and wants to do for you.

Why?

The devil knows that God’s Word is a mighty sword, the only sword we have that can destroy him (SEE Hebrews 4:12, Ephesians 6:17). The devil knows that when we welcome the Word and decide to live with it, it will take roots, grow and  multiply into thirty, sixty and a hundred times much more than what was sown (SEE Mark 4:20, Matthew 13:8). The devil knows that when we add faith as small as the mustard seed to the Word we’ve received, nothing that’s God’s will, will be impossible to us (SEE Mathew 17:20, Luke 17:6). The devil knows that when we don’t have faith in God’s Word we can’t please God (SEE Hebrews 11:6). The devil knows we can’t separate God’s Power, Wisdom and Goodness from His Word. The devil knows that God wants us to meditate on the Word day and night, so we can make our way prosperous, deal wisely and have good success (SEE Joshua 1:8). The devil knows that the word is life (SEE John 6:63). The devil knows that the Word is light (SEE Psalm 119:105, Psalm 199:130). The devil knows that God’s Word is forever settled in heaven (SEE Psalm 119:89). The devil knows that God has exalted His Word above His name (SEE Psalms 138:2). The devil knows that God’s Word can’t return to Him void. The devil knows the Word will always, always…always accomplish its purpose, no matter what (SEE Isaiah 55:10-11).

So, the devil doesn’t want us to stay with the Word.

Where did the Word fall in your heart and mind? I pray you go back to read Matthew 13, Mark 4 and Luke 8 for yourself.

Let God’s Word be lifted above every other thing, place or person in your life, and do Protect your almost invisible mustard seed.

The first moment you get revelations from God’s Word and your faith is stirred towards it…protect it from the devil’s reach. Protect it like a mother would her new born. Tell yourself a Billion times a day that it is the only truth on earth. Spend time in a quiet place and meditate on it. Get excited, deliberately, about it. Preserve it like you would a precious diamond. Ask for Grace to keep it, because the Word is God reaching out to you. It is what will take you from where you are to the place God wants you to be, from sadness to happiness, from pain to joy, from anger to love, from lack to abundance. It is the answer to your questions. The Word of God is everything we need and want and will ever need or want. That explains why when the Word gets to you; the devil comes in FULL weight to steal it from you. Don’t let him!

Lift God’s Word above: any feelings, any advice that contradicts it, any action that it stands against, any one that wants you to see another way outside of it, anything that drags you away from it. Let God’s word always take and make the lead in your life.

Because of Jesus, God’s Word is your forever safe place

God is the source of everything you really need, and He doesn’t want to withhold what you really need from you (SEE Matthew 7:9-11, Luke 11:11-13). He doesn’t want to just watch you suffer and not do anything about it…thanks to what Jesus did for us on the cross.

The devil is bad and there’s nothing good about him. God is good and there’s nothing bad about Him. The devil pretends to be good a times, but God can never pretend to be bad, because He’s absolutely GOOD! This goodness of God comes with His Wisdom and Power, and we can only access it through the Word. We have to have absolute confidence in His Word.

When God says He’s your Provider then He is your Provider. When He says He’s your Healer, then He’s your Healer. When He says He’s your Protector, then He’s your Protector. Whatever God says to you, in His Word, you just have to believe it, and hold firmly unto it…no matter what, and no matter how long you have to wait for it to come to pass in your life. God can’t lie. His Word means exactly what it says, and can’t change whether we choose to believe it or not. It will always come to pass, whether we wait on it or not. Forgive my words, but it is folly to doubt God’s Word. What else will you turn to? There’s nothing more powerful, nothing safer, nothing more trustworthy. God is faithful. He is so faithful. He cares so much about you, even to the mundane things and tiny details in your life. He’ll never leave you. He’ll never give up on you (SEE Hebrews 1:5).

Hold on to God’s Word, that’s His written commitment to stay faithful to you. He can’t go back on His Word; He can’t withdraw His faithfulness towards you. When you read His Word, it should make you take a deep breath and just feel safe.

When it comes to our relationship with God doubt is never a company to bring along, because doubt will never be welcomed.

My prayer for you:

I pray for you this day. I pray that God’s promises be a safe place for you to always run into and just relax. I pray that may you always exalt God’s Word above everything else in your life. I pray that when life seems to hit rock bottom, may you find Joy knowing that God is faithful and that He’ll come through for you. I pray that may you be patient enough to see God come through for you, and may it add to your boldness as you stand as a bold witness for Jesus.

Amen.

 

I pray you get in the gym, and just

Stay Spiritually Fit.

                      

 

 

                                                                             

 

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