How's your faith?

"Who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did."      

                                                                                    Romans 4:17-21    NKJV 

God promised Abraham and Sarah a child of their own and yet, it never seemed as if it would happen. At this present time, Abraham was almost 100 years old and Sarah was 90. Can you imagine this happening? Can you imagine if a lady of this age in your church, came up to you and said she was pregnant? It would be incredibly difficult to be believe her; and this is how it was in Abraham's time, yet, he was absolutely determined that this was God's word to him and it would happen. Sarah, had her doubts. Wouldn't you? But it happened, Sarah gave birth to Issac.

Abraham's faith is one that we need to emulate; just look at what the scripture says about it: 

'Contrary to hope, in hope he believed' v18. 'Not weak in faith' v19, 'He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief but, was strengthened in faith' v20 and Abraham was, 'fully convinced that what He had promised, He was able to perform.' This is how faith works.

Abraham didn't walk by what he could see around him, he walked by faith as Paul mentions in 2 Corinthians 5:7: 'For we walk by faith, not by sight'. The things around us that we can see are temporary, but the invisible things are eternal 2 Corinthians 4:18. This is how it is with Jesus and heaven. We can't see them but, we know, by faith that they are there. Like Abraham, we simply take God at His word knowing that, He would never mislead us.

William Barclay said, 'Jewish Rabbis had a saying to which Paul refers. They said, "What is written of Abraham is also of his children." They meant that any promise that God made to Abraham, extends to his children also. Therefore, if Abraham's willingness to take God at His word brought him into a right relationship with God, so it will be with us.'

It is God's desire that we walk by faith; without faith it is impossible to please Him (Hebrews 11:6). What has God promised you? If it was recent then you may be in exciting days. However, it may have been some time ago and it seems like it will never happen. Don't give up; fly the flag of faith because the fulfilment of God's promise may be just around the corner. If you give up on it, you are negating it and you may never see it. It may be difficult but, keep on thanking God for the promise and NEVER GIVE UP ON WHAT HE HAS PROMISED.

God's timing is always perfect. He works on a much different time-basis to which we do. To Him, it may be only a few minutes, to us it may be years. There really is no time as we know it, in heaven. You're on God's time and His timing is always bang on time. So don't lose heart: 'And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.'   Galatians 6:9. Your 'due season' will come, that's a promise.

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