BELIEVE HIM!...“How good are you at believing what the Lord is whispering in your soul? This is a spiritual aptitude that must be developed if we are going to be affected by Christ’s leadership and influence. Yet there are many who simply have never learned to believe! Accordingly, the interventions of Christ never leave the story books and enter their daily lives. Here’s the moment Abraham chose to simply believe…
“Count your descendants. You’re going to have a big family, Abraham! And he believed! Believed God!” ~Gen. 15:5-6
I like how the voice of God was talking to Abraham. God likes to talk with His creation. That’s still true today. The Spirit of Christ that lives in us is always whispering His comfort and His direction inside of us. If we can’t trust those inward words, then will fumble many blessings & encouragements He’s trying to give us. We’ll fumble provisions He’s lining up for us, we’ll fumble mission engagement opportunities, we’ll literally talk ourselves out of ‘one blessing after another’. Why does the voice of doubt get so much credibility? Has doubt ever led to a single blessing in our life? The presence of doubt only means that we can’t see the whole plan at that moment. Abraham had no son, and he was old, so he couldn’t see where all these descendants would come from. So, he simply chose to believe God! There’s an age-old lesson to be learned about God’s whispers, that even though we don’t see all the facts, we can choose to simply BELIEVE HIM! ~verlon
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What amazes me is that some believe in God in the academic sense of understanding and of their own devices created in the mind...Rather than the real thing right in front of them...A false idol is a device of focus in representation and of interoperation of one's own limited sight of perceptive construction....This can be done in stone or the mind.....
ReplyDeleteI loved Peter when he stepped out of the boat to walk on water..His minds limited sight of constructed understanding said..Impossible...Jesus seems to be teaching Peter that you need to have more faith in the beyond understanding , not put your faith in the minds sight of limited perceptions, and trust in the one God beyond understanding to achieve anything beyond one's limited means....You must Believe... 2 Cor 5:7 "For we walk by faith, not by sight...." if boat or box we must be willing step out of it, be willing to splash, and discover our true faith in him through Jesus Christ..
Man was created in God's image... Not man's created image of what god is...God is not what you think... it is what God is.. We must rely on this now more than ever in faith and belive....
Way to Go Peter your the kind of guy churches are built on....Imperfect,willing,learning,and even wet...But beyond yourself in him....
"I̱ písti̱ den metriétai apó ti̱n epitychía, allá apó ti̱n prothymía ... Oi epitychíes pou metrátai apó ti̱n písti̱ sto Theó den kataférnei enkósmia kerdi̱theí í̱ chatheí." Angelos
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