Blessings for Believing!
Verse for Today: Tuesday, April 02, 2013
Luke 1:45 – Blessed is she who
has believed that what the Lord has said to her will be accomplished.
A special blessing is experienced
by all who believe in God’s promises as they wait by faith for its fulfillment.
When God’s promises are fulfilled, it gives His people special joy as each
fulfillment helps their faith to grow. They wait for God to speak to them
through the written Word to strengthen their faith. They search the Scriptures
daily to see what God has in store for them. These promises illuminate the
glory of Jesus into their hearts because all promises are fulfilled in Him. So
when God’s children read His promises, they believe it with their whole heart
and soul because they are sure of its accomplishment. Thus they develop the
conviction that each passing moment brings them closer to the fulfillment of
these promises and enhances their expectancy. When they see the fulfillment of
these promises in the horizon of their lives by faith, it brings joy
unspeakable to their hearts. At the same time the Spirit of God who indwells in
us will enable us to believe it. When God speaks and illuminates His promises
to us, we receive the enabling to take it into our hearts personally and
develop the confidence that it is for us in our particular situations. A
promise is an announcement of what God is going to do for us in our lives in
the days to come. All promises have God’s signature of certainty on it and so
it will certainly come through. Thus we have the assurance of promise and its
fulfillment by faith and the enabling to believe that in a matter of time it will
come through. Such certainty fills our hearts with faith to consider the
promise to have been fulfilled even before its realization, and takes us
forward by faith to see its culmination. Elizabeth, Mary, Gideon, Joseph and
David had such assurance which they experienced in their lives and found that
it strengthened their faith to see its fulfillment. We are given promises by
the same Lord today. His Spirit keeps giving us reassurances that in Christ it
shall be doubtlessly accomplished.
Dear reader, do you ever wonder
how God’s promises fill your heart with happiness long before they are fulfilled?
Are you shaken by circumstances about the certainty of God’s promises and thus
filling you with doubt and confusion about its fulfillment? If you allow the
seeds of doubt sowed in your heart about God’s promises, a small plant of
anxiety and apprehension will germinate which will grow into a large tree which
will kill the joy of faith and expectancy in your life. The seeds of doubt,
confusion and unbelief are sowed by the enemy of your soul and his agents. The
enemy will add manure and water for his seeds to grow if we give him space and
opportunity. The resultant tree will bring forth fruits of bitterness,
disillusionment and depression which will challenge our faith and slowly make a
confused doubter out of you. As you keep doubting about God’s promise and thus
quench the Spirit of God, the enemy will work further in your heart not to take
God’s promises seriously. Then you are in a way making God a liar because you
no longer believe in God’s Word which is eternally secure in heaven. But if we
sow the seeds of faith and trust, the tree of courage and confidence in God
will germinate and will bring forth fruits of patience, maturity, peace and joy.
Our heart will be filled with the sap of Jesus Christ to believe all that God
has spoken and will be filled with the joy of the Lord which will be our
strength to keep going by faith. Thus we are challenged to believe God and
shape our days accordingly.
1 Peter 2:6b – The one who
trusts in Him will never be put to shame.
Thought for Today
God’s promises are divine announcements of what He will do in our lives
in the days to come.
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