What did I believe? God is living
and active, God is Healer, God is all-powerful, God gives good gifts, God’s
word is True~ God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Or did I?
Have you ever thought you had what you needed in your bag only to get to your
destination and find that it wasn’t really in there?! In some ways that’s what
I’ve learned about myself. I know scripture, but do I REALLY believe it? Do I
really believe that God heals people if we pray for them? Or do I secretly wonder,
“what if He doesn’t?”
Do you ever feel like there is a huge disconnect between what
you claim to believe and the way you actually live life? I’ve been claiming
this life that I read about in God’s word, because I know that I love Jesus.
But there always seemed to be a disconnect between things that I read and the
way that I lived. Like having freedom from sin, and loving others like I love
myself. Or like having life to the fullest, or being overflowing with joy
regardless of the circumstances. Or being able to pray for someone and help bring
them freedom in that moment. I’d read about it and desire it, but feel like I
was so far from it that maybe that part was just a longing for heaven. WRONG!
Just because your experience
doesn’t always match up with the Truth does that mean that Truth is no longer
Truth? If you pray for a person to be healed and they don’t get healed is God
still Healer? Or is He not? The Word of God tells me that He is! So do I choose
to believe that He is and keep on praying in faith or do I choose to let the
enemy tell me that because of my experience the word must not really be true?
When the disciples asked Jesus to
teach us how to pray this is what He taught us “Our Father who is in Heaven
hallowed be Your name, Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is
in heaven!” He wants us to
bring the Kingdom. He wants to use
me and you to bring that to others! We can be His hands and feet to the poor
and hungry, we can be His voice to tell the lost that He loves them, we can be tools for the Spirit to work through us, we can be
the feet that bring good news!
~Briana
