True test of faith... keeping the faith

The true test of our faith is when we are going through hard times. As we attest to the power of God and his ability to save, heal, restore and provide. Are we finding it easy to do so when we are sick and hungry? When we are in need and when our world seems to be falling apart all around us? Can we attest to the deliverance of our Saviour when we are bound by the things of this world and things from our past? Can we really attest to the Omnipresence of our God when we feel all alone? Can we attest to his Omniscience when we are going through problems and just don’t have solutions? Faith is being confident in what we hope and assurance about what we do not see (Heb 11:1). True faith is in seeing with your eyes cancer and praising God for a clear mammogram result. It is seeing a regret letter of employment and praising God for a job. It is dealing with a rebellious child and praising God for a good and well behaving and prosperous child. It is looking at a divorce decree or a track record of failed relationships and praising God for a marriage that will be a ministry to him. It is seeing a report of infertility, age and all other factors contributing to barrenness and praising God twin boys who will be inheritors of your legacy.

When we go through difficult times, we pray and ask God for help; we ask and beg him to intervene knowing that with our might there’s nothing we can do. And during that time of prayer, we truly believe that God has heard our prayer and in no time, the answer will be evident… well until your child comes home late at night or has another relapse of drug abuse or does the very same thing you were praying to God to help you with. We pray to God for children, and we believe and we go through the process of conception and all… until we have our next period. We pray and believe our prayers are answered when we have asked for a job and we are called for interviews and before we even get home we get a phone call telling us that we were not successful. We pray and we believe God, we praise him with all we are when after a failed marriage, engagement or relationship we find a glimpse of hope of a God ordained relationship that will sure lead to marriage or a proposal even… Until a challenge comes and the strength and genuineness of the relationship is questioned. And then we start asking questions? Why God? Why? Why don’t you want me to be happy? Blah blah blah!

In all the above, we are only questioning God and his ability to deliver and be true to his promises for our lives. We question his faithfulness to the promises he made to us individually and personally. We question his truthfulness to his word. We may question the ability of the employers to see potential in us but really, God sees potential where there isn’t so it shouldn’t be an issue what they see or not. We may think that we are questioning our children’s ability to listen but we are truly questioning God’s ability to change and transform a person, his ability to deliver and his ability to raise a child which he created. We are questioning God every time we become discouraged when a prayer is not answered at the time we wish it would be. Every time we say that maybe God doesn’t want to change our situations, we are really saying that he can’t so we must just accept it.
Why should we really accept what God has not told us? Hasn’t he told us that he is the God who does the impossible (Matthew 17:20)? Who makes a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland (Isaiah 43:19)?

God has said that his word never returns to him without accomplishing that which he sent it to do. If he has promised it to you, it will sure come to pass. No matter what happens, or doesn’t happen… if he has said it then it shall be so. Believe even when there’s no evidence of change, even a glance of change but believe that God has already done it for you and you will be testifying about it soon.

God aint no liar and he’s not about to start with you.

Stay blessed and keep the faith.

P