The
Ability to Believe
TODAY’S
SCRIPTURE
…God has dealt to each one
a measure of faith
Romans 12:3, NKJV.
TODAY’S
WORD
One of the greatest
abilities God has given each one of us is our ability to believe. If you
believe God’s Word, you can be successful. If you believe God’s Word, you can
overcome mistakes of the past. If you believe God’s Word, you can fulfill your
God-given destiny. There is incredible power in what you believe. What you
believe is greater than your circumstances, greater than your trials, greater
than your medical report, and greater than your bank account! When you get into
agreement with God and believe what He says about you, then what you believe
will supersede any natural law. I have a friend that came to this country with
nothing but the clothes on his back. Today he runs a Fortune 500 company.
Against all odds, he believed he could do what God placed in his heart.
Today, nurture those seeds
of faith by dwelling on His Word. As you get the Word of God in your heart,
faith will come to you. Faith will grow and strengthen in you. Faith will rise
up in you and empower you to take hold of all the blessings God has for you!
PRAYER
FOR TODAY
Father, thank You for Your
Word of truth which sets me free and deposits faith in my heart. I lift up my
eyes to You. I turn my focus toward Your Word and invite You to have Your way
in every area of my life in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
***
“All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own.” (Isaiah 53:6 NLT)
Everything seems to be a battle. Nothing is easy. The fact is, life is difficult.
So, why is life so hard in this world?
The Bible says rebellion against God broke everything.
It all started back with the first couple, Adam and Eve, in the Garden of Eden. When God created the world, everything was perfect. It was paradise. And Adam and Eve had no problems, suffering, sadness, temptations, or troubles.
But one day Adam and Eve decided that they wanted to do what they wanted to do. God told them, “You can do anything you want to in this paradise except one thing.” And what did Adam and Eve do? The one thing God told them not to do.
Why did he even give them a choice? Because without a choice, they couldn’t choose to love God. If you’re forced to love God, then it’s not real love.
Romans 5:12 says, “Sin came into the world through one man, and his sin brought death with it” (GNT). Before sin, there was no death in the world. There was no sadness in the world. There was no sorrow. There was no difficulty in the world. People would not die. Adam and Eve could have lived forever as long as it was a perfect environment. It was only when everything got broken that sin brought death into the world.
Adam and Eve weren’t the only ones who made that choice. I’ve made it, you’ve made it, and everybody else in the world has made it. We have all said, “I don’t want to do the right thing; I want to do the easy thing.” We’ve all said, “I don’t want to say the truth; I want to say what’s convenient.” We’ve all said, “I don’t want to be what God wants me to be; I want to be what I want to be.” We’ve all done this.
The Bible says in Isaiah 53:6, “All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own” (NLT).
We have all broken God’s laws. We have all rebelled by sins, transgressions, and iniquities. And that’s why nothing works correctly — your marriage, your health, your finances, your body, your relationships. Nothing works correctly, because sin broke everything.
When you understand why life in the world is so hard, you’re no longer going to be surprised by it. You’re not going to be surprised when things don’t go your way. You’re not going to be surprised when plans don’t pan out. You’re not going to be surprised when things actually go bad. And you will be able to handle the hard times of life much more easily.
So why is life so hard? Why do we suffer? Why is everything a battle? The answer is that rebellion against God broke everything.
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