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Chances are if you could have your way you would have worked things out differently than God allowed to play out in your life. In your great wisdom you would have changed some key events.

King Solomon said this about the same thoughts… Ecclesiastes 9:11 I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and circumstances happen to them all.

If it was up to me, the one’s with faith…their prayers would be answered. The ones who obey would win the lottery. But that’s now how God works is it? Look at the following Scripture…this man didn’t just have faith, he had the most faith. He obeyed more closely than anyone else around him, yet God didn’t answer his prayer. God didn’t intervene and remove him from the tough times.

Here’s what happened to Apostle Paul: 2 Corinthians 12:7-10…because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

A “No” answer or a dark time where we don’t see God at work around us can send us into a spiritual tailspin. So why should we keep believing in the dark times? It’s not because God answers our prayer; It’s not because everything works out. We don’t keep believing because we can see God at work around us.  No, we keep believing because God sent His Son into the world, He lived the life that we couldn’t live, He died to pay the penalty for our sin and He arose from the grave forever breaking the bonds of death and sin. That’s why we believe.

The foundation of our faith is not an experience we once had in 1979 or 1998 or 2018 (though sometimes that powerful moment where God intervenes in our lives can launch our faith). Faith simply is believing God is who He says He is and will do what He says He will do even when it doesn’t match our current reality.

Every time we come to God in faith we will receive His mercy and the grace to endure, just like Paul. We can have confidence that He hears us. We can have confidence that He can do it. And we have faith according to His infinite wisdom and plan that He will do what’s best for us and that will bring Him the most glory. We trust in His great mercy. He loves us, so we trust in Him because there is no greater love than that one lay down His life for us.

Today declare to God that your faith is not based on your limited wisdom, but that you trust His UNLIMITED wisdom to bring about what is best for you and will bring Him the most glory.  Put aside the thoughts to change the circumstances in the past or present, and look and listen today for what He is doing around you. He’s always at work. He may not change your circumstances but He will strengthen you in your present circumstances if you draw near to Him.

  • Ask God to draw our church family closer to Him…that each person this year would take their next steps of faith in their journey toward Christ.

  • Pray that we would have as a church a single focus on bringing God much glory. Pray that our worship this Sunday would lift Jesus high and that we would experience His powerful presence more tangibly than ever before.

  • Just sit and listen to this song and make it your prayer to God.