God is a supernatural God and it’s natural for a
supernatural God to have children who live supernaturally! Live expecting God
to do the unexpected - to do things for you that He has never done before!
If you want God to do something that He’s never done for
you before, then do something for God that you’ve never done before!
Faith Receives the Impossible! God promised Abraham a son when he was almost 100 years old
and when his wife was 90. In Romans, the Bible says that Abraham held strong.
Every day he waited, his faith got stronger, not weaker, and be expected Sarah
to get pregnant. It was impossible for that couple to have a child, and yet
Abraham and Sarah received the incredible. Faith is dead to doubts, it is blind
to impossibilities, and it sees nothing but success and victory.
Faith Takes Risks! Faith
that costs nothing and risks nothing is worth nothing. If you try to always
play it safe, if you’re afraid God is going to let you paint yourself into a
corner, you will never see God’s miracle working power for you personally.
There’s an element of risk in faith. If we’re not growing by stretching our
boundaries, we’re backing up and shriveling because faith has to be exercised
to grow.
Abraham risked his own son’s life by taking him into the
thicket and depending on God to supply a ram for him. Sometimes we never know
what God can do until we are desperate for a miracle and move into this realm
of faith because of our great need.
Obedient Giving! Whether
we like it or not, little in the Kingdom is accomplished without money. It
takes money to send a missionary, feed the poor, print Bibles, build churches,
serve the homeless, or deliver drug
addicts, prostitutes or alcoholics from a lifestyle that is killing them. To
have a part in the harvest of souls, you and I must practice an obedient faith
whenever God calls us to respond to a need. Obedient faith has to do with what
we possess and comes from our known resources.
