EPISODE 596 – FAITH THAT CANNOT FAIL 6 — FAITH IS DARING

Anyone without the word is defenseless.

When you step out there in faith, you are not afraid to fall because you know the Lord shall help you from falling. When the storm comes you are not threatened because you know you are planted in the Lord and you shall not be moved.

When the need arises you are not perturbed because you know the Lord takes care of you.

Most people don’t think that Abraham had to be daring to accept the name God gave him. To accept the name means he was going about announcing that he is going to have many sons against all odds.

“We call Abraham “father” not because he got God’s attention by living like a saint, but because God made something out of Abraham when he was a nobody. Isn’t that what we’ve always read in Scripture, God saying to Abraham, “I set you up as father of many peoples”? Abraham was first named “father” and then became a father because he dared to trust God to do what only God could do: raise the dead to life, with a word make something out of nothing. When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn’t do but on what God said he would do. And so he was made father of a multitude of peoples. God himself said to him, “You’re going to have a big family, Abraham!” Romans 4:17-18 (Message).

Faith dares to believe that God will do what He says He will do even when everything seems to be hopeless.

Abraham did not doubt God, wasn’t skeptical and did not give up even though they had had decades of infertility.

Abraham stood on God’s word and had confidence that God had all the power to do or fulfill His promises.

This is how daring faith acts out the word of God.

Daring faith caused mothers to receive back their dead children.

Consider the example of the Shunammite; when her son died, she didn’t go about announcing. She remains composed in faith. Even when the husband asked about the child, she said “ALL IS WELL”.

Don’t water down that phrase, ALL IS WELL. It wasn’t a remark of hopelessness. All is well is a bold remark of faith in the face of adversity.

She went to the Prophet Elisha with strong confidence that her child would come back to life. (2 Kings 4:18-37)

Faith is daring and doesn’t kowtow to negative news, nor to challenges and situations which contradict God’s word.

Be daring in faith, knowing that God will do what He says He will do. Don’t doubt the word of God.

Hallelujah!