Faith that confronts hindrances!
Verse for Today: Tuesday, November 06,
2012
Joshua 4:23 – The Lord your God did to the Jordan just
what He had done to the Red Sea when He dried it up before us until we had
crossed over.
God works in different ways in our affairs based on the
intensity of our needs and situations. He does what is essential to keep us
going in times of trouble. He acts at the right time to remove hindrances to
help us tread smoothly. He interferes in nature and reverses its course to
facilitate forward thrust for us. He removes fear of the hindrance from our
hearts and eyes. His miracles are qualitatively and quantitatively sufficient
to meet with every blockage that the enemy brings on our pathway. He
demonstrated His great power to divide the Red Sea to make dry ground for His
people to cross over. Compared to that, crossing over Jordan was much simpler.
But unless the hindrance was removed, God’s people couldn’t cross over. God
taught them that He was available for their great and small needs at the right
time and place. He speaks to us today that He is available and sufficient to
meet all our simple and complex. When the hindrance is removed, it would always
cause us to give Him thanks because He has done what was seemingly impossible. We
know how our faculties fail us in front of even the smallest hindrance. But
trusting God to remove the hindrance means that we leave it to Him and wait for
His orders. Sometimes He gives us a part to play in it like the role of Moses
to use his staff or the stepping in of the priests into Jordan. But God expects
us to play our part by faith and in full obedience, and leave the mighty act of
removal of hindrance to Him. Sometimes the hindrance is removed before we reach
the spot, but at other times, He expects us to come to the hindrance and get a
feel of its magnitude and awesomeness. But the One who leads us to the brink of
hindrance would also remove it.
Dear friend, are you confronted with a great and awesome
hindrance in your walk with your Lord today? Is it stark darkness,
insurmountable hill, vast ocean, steep river, walled city, great army, huge
monster like Goliath, financial difficulty, health problem, your own fear and lack of courage or deep
frustration that is preventing you to go forward? Remember, your God is able to
remove all hindrances whether they are big like Red Sea or small like river
Jordan. He has already planned amazing things for you to accomplish on the
other side of the hindrance. But you have to overcome hindrances by faith. Perhaps
you need to command the sea to be removed. At other times, you might be
required to step into the water and it will recede. At times He asks you to fill your water jars
and He will transform it into wine. At other times He wants you to walk around
the strong wall and it will crumble. When you shout for God, He makes the great
armies to get bewildered and flee. Even a small smooth stone from your crude
sling is sufficient to make Goliaths to tumble down before you. He strengthens
you with heavenly bread and water so that you can run faster than the chariots
of kings to reach Horeb to continue with your ministry. When God exercises His
perfect will in removing the hindrances in front of you, it is your
responsibility to take the first step of faith as per His instruction to see
His mysterious ways in making your pathway smooth. Today He is challenging you
to take that first step forward rather than getting anxious about the hindrance
and get frustrated. You are given the authority by the Lord Jesus to command
the hindrance by faith to be removed from your pathway. Let us not retreat from
the pathway that our Lord has established for us, but strive forward with
courage, boldness and confidence in His power. As we step forward by faith, we
will see victory for the praise of His name.
Joshua 3:13 – As soon as the priests who carry the ark of
the Lord – the Lord of all the earth – set foot in the Jordan, its waters
flowing downstream will be cut off and stand up in a heap.
Thought for Today
When faith boldly confronts hindrance, it will flee away.
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