FAITH NEVER FAILS (1)

Abraham believed and it was accounted to him for righteousness. (Romans 4:3)

Welcome to December.... a month of Thanksgiving. 11 months have gone by and in a little while... 2007 will be a year in the past.

This month I’ll put my thoughts together and write about faith. As believers, we would have at one point or the other exercise our faith. Be it in small matters or big matters. The truth is “without faith, the Christian journey seems an impossible pilgrimage”
(Hebrews 11:6 ---paraphrased)

What are you to expect in the coming weeks as we count down to Christmas and the New Year.?

Faith Works
Faith Makes
Faith Gives
God reigns

FAITH WORKS

Faith Works is a story of belief in God until all other options have passed you by.

I was at a gathering a couple of weeks ago and I got a word from God through the preacher on the night concerning an issue.
What I am putting my faith in God for however has a time frame. The organisation concerned made it clear that if necessary things are not done by a certain date, there will be consequences.... and I’ll lose out.
I believed God for what He had said and I sat back and watched as the deadline came and went. At this point all I can now do is fervently hold on and wait for God’s intervention. I couldn’t make God hurry, neither do I want unbelief to guide my actions, so I held on.
After a while the situation seems to be getting worse and I started to get really concerned. Things are getting out of hand and I or someone has to put an end to it.
Logically, I can try and slow down the pace of what is going wrong but as the deadline for any remedy is come and gone... I’ll just have to wait and see.

With a troubled countenance, God led me to call the organisation with a specific warning “do not lie”.... so I thought... ooooooooooook....

I spoke to a representative of the organisation and she didn’t waste time in telling me the deadline date had come and gone.... like I didn’t know. After a lengthy conversation, she decided to call me back the next day with the view her senior manager might be able to help me.

Tomorrow came as usual and at 2:50 pm, while I was sweating over a project due in for 3pm, my phone rang.....guess who? ...yep that’s right... It’s the organisation following up on my almost impossible request.
Did I pick up? ....you bet... I sure did and as I listened to the syllables of the words being pronounced at the other end of the phone, the sweat on my face trickled down faster. The holdup caused by frowning had gone... I’m full of smiles now....
It’s been done... the change has been made and the time frame issue was neglected... Amazing

I breathe a sigh of relief but as soon as she hung up, the sweat came back..... It’s 3:02....and my project isn’t finished.

It wasn’t until later in the evening that I was able to digest the scale of the break through.... and I learnt this from the experience:

“You can never lose out on anything while sincerely waiting on God”.

We tend to live our lives by having God as “one of many options” rather than having Him as “the option”........
The Bible says.........Colossians 1:17 “In Christ all things consist” (including all the other options) ..... So when you’ve got God, you’ve got it all.

The year is coming to an end.... and I don’t know how long you’ve been hoping and praying for that “one thing” to be done. I got news for you..... Hold on....God’s got it all in control.

Truly, the days will come when:
“You’ll only survive because you’ve got the real thing”....
“It’s gonna be truth or consequences”
“You’ll have to work with God when you can’t understand or explain where He’s taking you”
“You’ll have to stand on his word when it doesn’t look like its working”
(word for today- Dec 3/07)

Is this the day? ... ... be rest assured folks.... .... ....“Faith Works”