By Pastor Naomi Mitchell
For Carter County Times
You may have a complicated problem, but your answer is simple: HAVE FAITH IN GOD. In other words, you have made up your mind. You choose to believe God’s Word no matter what. His Word is final.
If it was God’s will for the mountain to be there, Jesus would not have told you to move it! Mark 11:23 – For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
There is no such thing as long-distance faith. Faith is ‘now’ believing what God’s Words says, right now, always, every day, in every situation. You don’t need to just have enough faith for yourself; you need enough to have possession with intent to distribute (Mark Hankins).
The confession of your lips that has grown out of faith in your heart will absolutely defeat the adversary in every combat (F.F. Bosworth). So, it is impossible to be disappointed when your expectation is only on God (Mark Hankins). Psalm 62:5 – My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from Him. The devil doesn’t care what you believe if you are silent about it. You cannot outsmart the devil with your thoughts. But you can outsmart the devil with God’s thoughts. Know what God’s thoughts are concerning you. Feed your faith every day. The Spirit of Faith will turn defeat into victory and dreams into reality (Mark Hankins).
The greatest disadvantage in the world is not knowing God’s Word and how to pray. So many people are defeated in life because of this. Have a ‘made-up mind’ to find yourself in Christ. Never let your struggle become your identity. Galatians 2:20 – I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless, I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. Colossians 2:9-10, For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power.
My job is to believe and speak, God’s job is to do what He said He would do. You don’t always have to try harder, just receive the Word better. James 1:22-25, But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Remember, Jesus paid too high a price for your freedom for you to be bound and defeated. Hebrews 9:12 – Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. Listen, you will stand helpless in the face of sin and its effects if you have no knowledge of the blood of Jesus and what a high price He paid for you.
If you want the power of God active in your life, have a made-up mind to never look back. Always remember every born-again believer has a measure of mountain moving faith!
Amen! So be it!
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