Topic: Never take the situation into consideration
Scripture: While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal (2 Corinthians 4:18).
Message:
When Abraham was close to 100 years old, the Bible states that “he did not consider his own body now dead, nor the deadness of Sarah’s womb” (Romans 4:19).
God informed him that he would have a son and would name him Isaac when he was a hundred years old. Despite his advanced age, he insisted that his body was still capable of reproducing. He didn’t take into account Sarah’s dead womb either! The empirical and physical proofs that refuted the Word of God did not deter him. Everything he knew about this universe led him to believe that he couldn’t possibly have a child. Abraham, however, didn’t take them all into account.
So what did he think about? This is it! He focused all of his thoughts, attention, and concentration on the Word that God had spoken to him.
Not feeling the agony doesn’t imply you don’t have faith. “I feel the pain, sure, but I refuse to consider it; I refuse to let it dictate my actions,” is what faith means. Never let anything that is against God’s Word, what you see, how you feel, or anything else rule your life. God’s words to you are “yea and amen” (2 Corinthians 1:20), which denotes that they are set in stone. It is your responsibility to have faith in them and to reject all doubt and unfaith.
Prayer:
I have complete trust in God and His enduring and unchanging Word! No opposing wind, condition, or situation I may encounter can shake my faith in God’s Word. Today, in the name of Jesus, I have victory through the authority of God’s Word. Amen.
Further Study
Romans 4:19-22
And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb:
He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
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