Where do I even begin…
Doubt and unbelief are big problems for Christians. They are negative and discouraging. They cause us to make poor choices, which make life difficult. Another way we struggle with doubt and unbelief is by thinking God won’t help us because we haven’t done everything right. Or believing that God is willing to help other people but not me. I am here to say that this is ME my friend, I am my own worst enemy as for most people I am sure you can relate.
You may be thinking, I just can’t help it…I wish I could believe and not doubt. But the truth is, you can! God wouldn’t tell us to believe in Him if it wasn’t possible for us to do it. We can defeat doubt and unbelief if we know how to do it. So how do we do it? How do we believe God and live by faith? Romans 10:17 tells us how: “Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
The key here is the Word of God. We need to love the Word of God and go after it like we go after food when we’re really hungry. When we’re hungry, we’ll usually do what we need to do to get food.
God’s Word is medicine for our soul and the food we need to keep our spirit strong. It has inherent power to change our lives when it is mixed with faith. As you study and speak the Word, be sure to also talk about the good things God has done and not the problems. Decide to doubt your doubts! It is often we hear about the word FAITH but I never stopped to realize until this morning that without LOVE we cannot have FAITH. You see it’s so hard to have TRUST/FAITH in something that you don’t understand the amount of love that is held for you. (Just as in any relationship if you know the other party loves and supports you it’s easy to have faith and trust) So before we can have total trust in gods faithfulness we first need to understand just how much he loves us and who we are in Christ.
First John 4:16 points out that we should be conscious of God’s love. It needs to be more than just a biblical fact for us…we need to experience it daily.
Hebrews 13:5-6 says you can trust God to come to your rescue.
John 3:16“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Faith Grows in us the more we use it, kind of like a muscle when we first start out in the gym we use “baby weights” those are in comparison to our “baby problems” but at the time they seem so hard to use for a workout but before we know it we are no longer using those “baby weights” and we are now using 25 pound weights and when we look back those 2 pound baby weights seem like nothing, faith works the same way The more we press into faith and the more we use it our faith muscle grows and we concur one problem and before we know it we are on to a bigger problem. But when you look back the problems that once seemed so big you wonder why you even wasted time worrying and doubting. You see God won’t bring us to anything that he will not carry us through. The more we use our faith muscle the bigger it will grow and the more weight we can handle. God calls all of us to rest our problems, our worries, our fears, and our doubts at his feet. He wants to carry the burden and he wants to have us in total restoration while the enemy wants to keep us in condemnation. The enemy wants to replay that bad decision over and over in our heads make us think we are such bad people but God’s word tells us that we are saved by grace in Romans it says you are not under the law but under Grace. Romans 8:1-3 says “Therefore, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the spirit who gives life has set YOU free from the law of sin and death.
So I challenge you as I challenge myself, rest your worries, your fear, your doubt, your struggle in Gods promise, the facts are that GOD DOES NOT LIE and he will in fact come to your rescue and deliver you!!!!
