Sunday, February 14, 2016

Quitting is Not an Option

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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