I was wondering if I had enough faith to believe for it. Frankly, I was fighting those niggling doubts that were as old as Adam and Eve. Hath God said? What if it doesn’t work? What if nothing happens? What are you going to do now? I was running on empty.
The enemy does not always come at you with horns and a red cape. Sometimes it’s those soothing clucking noises. This is not your battle. Let them fight their own battles. You have not prayed enough. That’s the problem. Do it later when you’re more prayed up. God is in charge of it all. This may not be His will. And then the friends show up and say this must not be His will since every door you knocked on stayed shut, since nothing is happening, since you seem to be going backwards. Just take a look at this mess. This is not of God. You missed it. What are you going to do? You need to go to some more seminars, fast and pray. Job’s friends.
So now you’re fighting the enemy both in your mind and on the natural battle field. And you start to wonder if there’s enough faith in you to receive what you need by faith, to believe you receive what this one scripture promises in the face of all contradiction. Does God really love me? It this His will for me? Have I missed it? Of course I have. Maybe they were right.
And then this happened: God said, “I AM God and I change not. I AM not a man that I should lie, neither a man that I’d change my mind. If I said it, I’ll do it. Not one of My words will fail”.
If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself (2 Tim. 2:13). Even when you are faithless, He remains faithful. Boom! And this realization came: The battle is not, “Do I have enough faith”? It’s, “Will He do what He said He’d do”? That was easy. The onus is on God, not me. Of course He will do what He said He will do. He keeps His word. He is God. He is faithful. His promises are yes and amen. He cannot lie. This whole thing is upheld by the power of His Word. I no longer have to worry about my level of faith being topped off by what I do. My faith is anchored on who HE IS and what He said.
Joshua 21:45
Not a word failed of any good thing which the Lord had spoken to the house of Israel. All came to pass.
Psalm 100:5
For the Lord is good;
His mercy is everlasting,
And His truth endures to all generations.
For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.
Isaiah 55:11
So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;
It shall not return to Me void,
But it shall accomplish what I please,
And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
Numbers 23:19
“God is not a man, that He should lie,
Nor a son of man, that He should repent.
Has He said, and will He not do?
Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
Hebrews 10:23
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.
Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.
Psalm 89:34
My covenant I will not break,
Nor alter the word that has gone out of My lips.
Isaiah 40:8
The grass withers, the flower fades,
But the word of our God stands forever.”
who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
Psalm 119:89-90
Forever, O Lord,
Your word is settled in heaven.
Your faithfulness endures to all generations;
You established the earth, and it abides.