Thoughts in Worship
Message Magazine's Online Devotional for Friday, April 26, 2019
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This is devotional thought number 15 in our devotional series titled, “The Faith I Live By”
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1).
Trials will come. Difficulties will multiply. Problems seem to always know your address. This is where faith comes in. Faith lays hold of God’s promises and does not let go, until He keeps them.
Have you ever wondered when, and from where your next dollar will come? The bills are always on time, but the money seems to be working from a different calendar. You work with diligence, but sometimes things don’t always line up. You plead with God to come through for you, and know it’s just a matter of when He will send relief.
Maybe money is not your problem. Maybe your health is where your greatest challenges lie. When you go to the doctor, the news is seldom good, and seems to be getting worse. You pray, and do all you can to address the situation, but you feel like the woman with the issue of blood who got worse with every visit to the doctor.
Perhaps your children have lost their spiritual minds they have forgotten the truths you invested in them. The are running away from God like He’s a bill collector. What gives? What has He done to deserve this? Nothing! Sometimes people move along their own paths of darkness until God’s path is the only way out.
How do we overcome these and other trials where there’s no sign of relenting? Faith. It’s the easy answer, considering our theme text. We hope for positive changes and outcomes. We hope that God will miraculously get us out of our mess. We hope that He will flood our lives with favor, so these trials will become testimonies, but it takes faith. Faith sees the difficulties, observes the evidences that God has resolved limitless problems in the past, and lays hold of His good name, reputation, and (most of all) His power. Faith remembers God’s promises, and fastens its hold upon them, begging God to keep them, like He has so many times in the past. Whatever your trial, difficulty, or crucible, You must remember that God has been good, and will continue to be. We must keep the faith. We must keep the faith. We must keep the faith until Jesus provides our breakthrough.
By God’s grace, this is the faith I live by, let this be the same for you, in Jesus’ name.—L. David Harris (http://bit.ly/BQuotable)
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