Last week we talked about commitment. I pray you sought God
and have an idea about your commitments and how to prioritize them. Many times
we become so bogged down with our commitments and our day to day routines that
we may want to throw in the towel or simply say I quit.
If you are employed inside or outside of your home, if you
are a caregiver, or have children that you are caring for. If you have health concerns, financial
concerns or are concerned about any are of your life you can become weary. Well
I want to speak words of encouragement to you that I pray will strengthen you
and enable you to move forward and continue moving forward.
The Bible is filled with stories of people like you and me
who have faced insurmountable odds but remained steadfast in their faith,
committed to their cause, persevered against the odds and never gave up.
Quitting was not an option.
We find a summary of great testimonies of faith in the book
of Hebrews.
Hebrews 11:1 defines faith for us. It tells us how faith is
the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. This
scripture reminds us of several things. It reminds us that faith is now. Faith
should be present before what you are expecting or believing God for appears.
It reminds us that without seeing it or touching it by faith we can be assured that
what we pray for will occur. Faith is the conduit or place of passage between
desire, thought or hope and manifestation.
As we continue reading in Hebrews chapter 11 we read of how
:
Abel by faith offered the best lamb as a sacrifice to God,
God testifying of his gifts
Enoch walked with God and was translated and did not see
death
Noah built the ark, obeying God without questioning
Abraham trusted God, leaving his land not knowing where he
was going. Along with his wife who were both past child bearing age believed
Gods promise that his seed would be too numerous to count
Moses’ parents hid him three months, being not afraid of
the king and his order to kill all male children
Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,
choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the
pleasures of sin for a season, forsaking Egypt not fearing the wrath of the king,
passing through the red sea as by dry land
The walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed
about seven days
Rahab the harlot received the spies with peace and did not
perish with them that believed not
The woman with the issue of blood after spending all she
had pressed her way through a crowd of people believing if she touched the hem
of Jesus’ garment she would be healed.
Can you imagine going from doctor to doctor with a disease
that cannot not be diagnosed? Your
insurance is cancelled and you spend everything you have. Your only hope, which
is the same hope you have had all along is Jesus.
More times than not, we exhaust all of our possibilities,
everything we think we can do with our own thoughts or our own abilities before
we go to God, why is that? Even when we pray first we may still try to
intervene when we don’t see or receive our expected results when we expect,
want or think we need to, or should receive them.
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