To whom much is given, much is required.

I saw a pair of hands lifting a baby from a basket that was floating among the reeds in the river. Images flash back and forth from this sight to a scene where a woman, downcast and whose face was shadowed by her headdress, embraced her baby one last time, then gently placed her precious one into a basket and let it float away in the river. Then a voice said to me, “Moses”.

This story, my dear friends, is the very heart of God for each of you reading this piece. I woke up this morning and meditated on Exodus 2 as the Holy Spirit reminded me of the birth of Moses. Over and over I read and the same voice spoke, “To whom much is given, much is required. Write about this.”

It is recorded in Exodus 1 that Pharaoh gave an order to all his people that every boy born must be thrown into the Nile, but let every girl live. The Hebrew woman I saw in the vision was the mother of Moses. God had opened a way for Moses to live; He delivered Moses out of the death decree and gave Him that which was uniquely his – Prince of Egypt.

In our lives, there were moments when God had delivered us out of our circumstances, gave us each unique experiences and placed us in positions according to His divine plan. Yet many times, we are not aware of God’s sovereign deliverance and favor till He chooses to reveal. And when He does, He requires us to make a stand and respond to Him. The Bible says that God gives according to the measure of our faith (Romans 12:3). God revealed to Moses in a burning bush, and that was given according to the measure of his faith. It was by faith that Moses refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh’s daughter and chose to be mistreated along with the Israelites. By faith, He left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger because he saw God (Hebrew 11:24-27). When God called to Moses in the bush of fire, Moses responded, “Here I am.” (Exodus 3: 4) Perhaps, if Moses had not recognized the voice of God, He would not have responded in this manner. But by faith, Moses knew God and responded. When God calls you, He will send you and empower you to accomplish His purpose because He is faithful and He will be with you (Exodus 3:12; 1 Thessalonians 5:24).

Moses’ name was a prophetic name which sounded like the Hebrew for ‘draw out’ (Exodus 2: 10c, NIV). Moses was drawn out of the same river Nile that bore the death of many Hebrew baby boys. He was set apart for God’s mighty deliverance plan. If you know that God has called you to carry out His calling for you, do not fear because just as Moses was set apart, you too have been set apart by God to fulfill His work.

Some of us may be feeling dry despite the certainty of God’s calling in our lives. Let us declare that the glory of Zion and the year of the Lord’s favor are upon us:

“Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you. See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the Lord rises upon you and his glory appears over you. Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.” (Isaiah 60:1-3)

“The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion—to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor. They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations. Strangers will shepherd your flocks; foreigners will work your fields and vineyards.  And you will be called priests of the Lord, you will be named ministers of our God. You will feed on the wealth of nations, and in their riches you will boast. Instead of your shame you will receive a double portion, and instead of disgrace you will rejoice in your inheritance. And so you will inherit a double portion in your land, and everlasting joy will be yours. ‘For I, the Lord, love justice; I hate robbery and wrongdoing. In my faithfulness I will reward my people and make an everlasting covenant with them.  Their descendants will be known among the nations and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge that they are a people the Lord has blessed.’ I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. For as the soil makes the sprout come up and a garden causes seeds to grow, so the Sovereign Lord will make righteousness and praise spring up before all nations.” (Isaiah 61)

So, my dear friends, to whom much is given, much is required. God has delivered you out of your circumstances over and over again. He has given you favor in the sight of God and man. He has given you unique experiences where you’ve tasted and seen His goodness. And now, what he requires of you is to walk humbly with Him and respond to His calling for your life. You did not choose Him; He chose you to GO – to GO and bear fruits that will last (John 15:16).

Got it? Or rather, done it?

The Message of the Cross

In this article, I would like to address two groups of people:

1.   You are a Christian but have not experienced and understood Christ’s love on the cross.

2.   You are not a Christian but are struggling in a particular situation or perhaps searching for perfect love.

This is the message of the cross. The truth is that it is for anybody and everybody because Christ died for all, not just the Christians. Many of you reading this article might have asked questions like, “Why the cross? How significant can an ordinary cross be?”

Ephesians 3: 17 – 19 writes that we being rooted and established in love may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

The Width

The width of the cross symbolizes God’s invitation to you as of a father welcoming his lost son with open arms.

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”

-Matthew 11:28-

Are you tired of chasing pretty rainbows? Are you tired of spinning round and round? Then pack up all the shattered dreams or your life, and give them all to Jesus, for He promises that He will turn your mourning into joy. Jesus loves you so much, more than you ever know. People around you may expect you to give your best even when you’re exhausted and sometimes they are oblivious to how you feel. But Jesus understands, He feels how you feel and He cares. And He is inviting you to go to Him, and He will surely give you rest.

The Length

The length of the cross symbolizes the extent and period of God’s love for you. Bible says God’s love is eternal. And because God is love, His love never fails.

How long have you been searching for a man or woman who would give you all of their love, all of their life? How many times have you been hurting inside because people’s love fails you? Are you at the point of giving up hope in believing that perfect and true love exists?

Jesus stands at the door of your heart, knocking. He won’t barge in. He is a gentleman. He will wait, patiently – and only He will – for you to open the door and let Him love you with His unconditional love. I urge you to be brave, open that door, because you will experience His love in such tangible ways that you can never imagine. He wants to be the lover of your soul. Then can you learn to love – unconditionally.

Jesus never said that there’d be no sunshine or rain in your life. He promises however that He will be there for you through eternity. God’s promises are ‘Yes’ and ‘Amen’, nothing less. God says:

“Heaven and earth will pass away, but My Words will never pass away.”

-Matthew 24:35-

The Height

The height of the cross symbolizes the omnipotence of God’s love for you. The love of Jesus overcomes.

You might be living in guilt and shame or self-condemnation right now. It could have been a past wrong, a past relationship, or a mistake. Jesus died for you just so that you can be free from these, free from your past, free from every guilt and shame. The love Jesus poured out for you overcomes:

“…Love covers a multitude of sins.”

-1 Peter 4:8-

Perhaps, you have a hidden fear in your heart that no one knows about. And this fear, it comes and it goes away and then it comes back again to haunt you. Whatever this fear may be, Jesus’ love on the cross has the power to break it. Believe, trust and know that He is God Almighty. He holds the world in His hands. And because only His love is perfect:

“There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.”

-1 John 4:18-

Be assured in the love of Jesus because the Bible says that NOTHING can separate us from God’s love:

“No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

-Romans 8:37-39-

The depth

Finally, the depth of the cross signifies how Jesus humbled himself to earth and lived among us (John 1:14). Is there any god in the entire universe that portrays such humility? Is there a god who became sin, died for you, suffered the pain and shame, yet was blameless and perfect, because he loves you so much and wants to have a relationship with you?

The depth of the cross symbolizes the gravity and downward direction of God’s initiation. God is always the one who initiates:

“We love because God first loved us”

-1 John 1:19-

“You did not choose me but I chose you…”

-John 15:16-

He came. He pursued. He initiated; All because He loves us. No other gods have I known to possess such amazing love. Neither have I heard of any gods who would tell me “I am yours and you are mine.” There is but one; His Name is Jesus.

The message of the cross, which is His unconditional and amazing love, the width, the length, the height and the depth of His love has been given to you. It is a gift that has always been there and it will always be there until you respond to open the gift. And in the gift box, you’d find fullness of His love – that of eternal joy and pleasure.

“You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.”

-Psalm 16:11-

Got it? Or rather, done it? 

Kings and queens of the King of kings

Grace, a messenger of Christ Jesus by the will of God,

To the churches in every continent and nation:

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

I come before you with thanksgiving to God for the faithfulness and relentless faith of many of you. As you give your life to Jesus and humbly accept His will and calling in your lives, I need to inform you of the royal degree given by the King of kings. He has appointed each one of you as kings and queens in His Kingdom, for you are chosen by God and are precious to Him. You also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light (1 Peter 2: 4-5, 9).

The very vision of the King of kings is that each of us are trained and molded to be great kings and queens who would disciple and prepare future kings and queens such that we will populate the earth that God’s Kingdom will be made known and established in all the earth. I plead with you to take up this royal degree for it is a command, yet under every command there is a choice of covenant. A covenant however is not a command hence it cannot be broken. At this point, there are certain principles for holy or royal living that kings and queens should uphold and even in every ministry.

Principles in ministry

As kings and queens, we all have a people to care for and protect. Kings and queens are like shepherds. We are entitled to lead, in humility and love, and to disciple, doing it all for the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10:31). Whether in sharing the gospel, or to disciple new believers, you ought to have an attitude of being God’s kings and queens.

Since you have the royal blood running in you, the blood that was shed on the cross for you, you ought to guard yourselves in Christ Jesus (1 Corinthians 16:13, Proverbs 4:23, 1 John 5:21, Psalm 34:13, Philippians 4:7). In everything you do, be holy for the King of kings is holy (1 Peter 1:15-16).  “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:6-7)

Practical principles for royal living

1.      Kings and queens are allies in the Big Kingdom; you protect your partners-in-Christ.

Love each other – 1 Peter 4:8, John 15:12

Encourage each other – 1 Thessalonians 5:11, Hebrews 3:13, Titus 2:15

Rebuke/ Correct/Warn each other’s wrongs – 2 Timothy 3:16-17, Proverbs 27:6, Galatians 6:1, Titus 2:15

I urge you to do all of these out of love (1 Corinthians 13:1-13; 16:14). Do not judge another (Matthew 7:1). As partners-in-Christ, we help each other as iron sharpens iron (Proverbs 27:17). This is all to build up the Kingdom of God.

2.      Kings and queens should be kind, polite, courteous and have manners

Love is not rude (1 Corinthians 13:5).

Don’t engage in foolish arguments (2 Timothy 2:23-24).

Be gentle in words and deeds (Ephesians 4:2-3, 1 Peter 3:3-4, Proverbs 15:1, Titus 3:2, Colossians 4:6).

This is what you ought to do as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved. And above all these virtues, clothe yourselves with God’s love which binds all of these in perfect unity (Colossians 3:12-14)

3.      Kings and queens should make wise and careful decisions in small or big things.

Be shrewd as serpents, yet innocent as doves (Matthew 10:16).

Be wise towards non-believers (Colossians 4:5).

Recorded in the Book of Proverbs teach us very clearly what wise decisions are.

The pre-requisite of wisdom is to fear the Lord for the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom (Proverbs 9:10).

4.      Kings and queens should shine and set a good example.

Don’t hide (Matthew 5:14-16).

Do what is good before God and man (Titus 2:7, Titus 3:1-11, Micah 6:8).

5.      Kings and queens should be prudent in spending their wealth and time. God’s kings and queens seek to spend their wealth and time in the Kingdom of God and not on themselves.

Be faithful in giving your tithes and offertory (Proverbs 3:9).

Share your wealth with the poor and needy (Matthew 19:21, Luke 12:33).

Spend time with the Lord (Matthew 6:33; 6:6, Romans 10:17, Luke 10:38-42, John 15:1-5)

Be good stewards of time and make the most of opportunities (Psalm 90:12; 39:4-5, Ecclesiastes 3:1-11, Romans 13:11-14, Ephesians 5:15-17, Galatians 6:9-10, 1 Peter 1:17; 2:11).

Kings and queens, my dearest brothers and sister-in-Christ, be encouraged for our God will meet all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus. To our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen. (Philippians 4:19-20)

This is the royal degree: You are kings and queens of the King of kings. Got it? Or, rather, done it?

May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

Sacrificing Your Isaac

What does it mean to sacrifice your Isaac? Or perhaps, God is asking you to sacrifice your Isaac but you can’t because your spirit is willing but your flesh is weak. Your Isaac simply refers to the thing or person that you love the most in your life and you find it hardest to surrender that to God. Isaac was Abraham’s beloved son and Abraham loved him and it certainly wasn’t easy for him to obey God in sacrificing Isaac. If you’ve been caught in a struggle between the convictions of the Holy Spirit and the alluring power of your heart’s desire, I pray that the Holy Spirit will move in your heart mightily as you read this article. May God create in you a pure heart and renew a steadfast spirit within you… may the Lord restore to you the joy of His salvation and grant you a willing spirit, to sustain you (Psalm 51:10-12).

The Attitude in Sacrificing your Isaac

Proverbs 3:4-6 says trust in the Lord with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding but in all your ways acknowledge God and He will direct your path. You might be struggling because you love God and want Him to guide you, at the same time, it causes you too much pain to let go of your Isaac. The only way God can save you from your struggle is if you trust Him with all your heart. There can be no room in your heart for your Isaac as you trust in God with all your heart. You might have asked for confirmations or even prayed that God will change His mind. God is not a man that He should lie nor a son of man that He should change His mind (Numbers 23: 19). When God promises He will save, He will. Whatever He purposes for in your life, it will be accomplished. Psalm 50:23 writes that he who sacrifices thank offerings honors me, and he prepares the way so that God may show him His salvation. Yes it's hard to surrender and sacrifice your Isaac, don’t do it with your own strength. Begin to thank the Lord for the things He has done for you, the promises He has given and worship the Lord. Abraham worshipped the Lord (Genesis 22: 5). When you do these, you are fixing your eyes upon Jesus, the author and perfector of your faith. Your offering of thanksgiving to God honors Him and prepares the way for Him and you will see God’s salvation in your struggles in His time. 

Why does God want our Isaacs? (Psalm 40: 6 - 8)

Bible says from God are all things and He is worthy of it all (Revelation 4: 11). Your Isaacs do not belong to you. What can you give to God that God has not given to you? What do you have that is not of God? Isaac was a promised son God had given to Abraham. When we read Genesis 22:1-19, we often think that Abraham didn’t seem to have struggled in sacrificing Isaac but I believe he did. Abraham however understood that God was looking at a heart of obedience rather than the sacrifice.

Abraham hung on to God’s promise through Isaac He will make him a great nation. When God had asked him to sacrifice Isaac, he did not lean on his own understanding but simply held on to God’s promise and obeyed God. Notice in Genesis 22:5, Abraham says to his servants that both he and Isaac will return. Sometimes, it seems as if God is contradicting. When we think like that, we are limiting God’s ways and God’s power. Doesn’t it say in the scriptures that God’s ways are higher than our ways and His thoughts higher than our thoughts? (Isaiah 55:8-9) This however does not mean that God will not ‘take’ your Isaac. In the case of Abraham, Isaac was God’s promise to him. If your Isaac is in the way of God’s will and hindering God from being the Lord of your life, then because God loves us and wants all of us that we can soak in the richness and abundance of Him, He will take your Isaac. Yet, He promises He will make all things beautiful in His time. But, God’s not gonna snatch your Isaac away. He might intervene, but He will not force you. His Holy Spirit will convict you and give you the strength to submit to His will. 

Don’t hate God because of this. I know it happens. But think about His Kingdom; think about what God has done for you. Think about how privileged you are that God didn’t just call you, He chose you. Meditate on John 15:16 and Matthew 22:14. The Lord says that He has loved you with an everlasting love (Jeremiah 31:3). This love can only be found in Christ.

Psalm 40:6-8 says that God doesn’t desire or require our sacrifice and offering. What God desire is our heart and obedience to say “Here I am”, and that we desire to do His will. We will not know what His will is unless we have God’s word hidden in our hearts. Start meditating on His Word day and night, because as you do that, incense will arise from your hearts. Thanksgiving will arise to heaven and be like sweet incense to the Lord. For when you delight yourself in the Lord, He will grant you the desires of your heart (Psalm 37:4). This means that God is the only one who knows you. We do not know everything about ourselves because we didn’t create ourselves, God did. And didn’t scripture says the heart is deceitful above all else? (Jeremiah 17:9) What you think you want may not be what you really want. 

Just as this song has ministered to me, I hope it ministers to you: 

Who is like you Lord in all the earth?

Matchless love and beauty, endless worth

Nothing in this world will satisfy

Jesus You’re the cup that won’t run dry

Treasure of my heart and of my soul

In my weakness, You are merciful

Redeemer of my past and present wrongs

Holder of my future days to come

Your presence is heaven to me

Oh, Jesus, oh Jesus…

Your presence is heaven to me

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Jesus set the perfect example for you. Abraham has sacrificed his Isaac. God loves you; He has chosen you. He grieves with you in your pain and struggles. He desires for you to be in His presence. In His presence is fullness of joy and at His right hand are pleasures forever more. He says, "I am with you always." (Matthew 28:20)

Got it? Or, rather, done it?

FAITH, HOPE AND LOVE

Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love (1 Corin.13:13, NLT).

God loves us. Without God’s love, there is no faith; there is no hope. And without His love, our relationship and faith in Him is naught. Because God says He Himself is love (1 Jn.4:9), without the existence of God, we can’t have faith in Him and how then can we hope in Him? For this reason, without faith it is impossible to please God (Heb.11:6). Faith is the basis of our foundation in Christ. Hebrews 11:6 writes that anyone who comes to God must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him. When you have faith in God, you believe and acknowledge His existence in your life, you also believe that He loves you with an everlasting love, because He is love. Here, God teaches us that in Him, faith and love goes hand-in-hand. Remember God also says that without faith it is impossible to please Him and He rewards those who earnestly seek Him. God takes delight in those who seek Him with all their hearts. What reward does God promise? From Matthew 5:11 and Jeremiah 29:13-14, when our hearts are pure and we seek Him wholeheartedly, He reveals Himself to us that we may know Him better. The Greek meaning of ‘knowing God’ is to know Him experientially. To ‘see God’ in Matthew 5:11 has the same meaning – to know God experientially. This builds up our faith in Him. Our faith is built on two levels: first is the Biblical knowledge of God (His Word) and second is our spiritual experience and encounters with God. The journey of our faith is both rational and emotional – this is the nature of our God. God has wisdom beyond understanding and His love for us through Jesus Christ shows that our God has feelings and emotions too! Now where does hope come in? Hebrews 11:1 writes that faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. There is hope in Christ Jesus because He lives, and because He lives, we can have eternal life with God (Jn.3:16). This is our hope in God, our confidence of God’s goodness in the land of the living (Ps. 27:13), which is eternity with our King! And now we know that in Christ, faith, hope and love are inseparable and they remain.

Many of us question what is faith? And some of us find it hard to always have faith in God. The minute our problems come in like the waves, they hit us and we feel feeble and weak and doubts begin to sink in. Well I’ve got good news for us! God promises us in 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 that His grace will sustain us and He will make us stronger in our weakness. It’s alright to be weak in God’s presence, in fact, when we are weak, then we are strong. I have to emphasize though that this weakness in God is not coming into God’s presence in defeat. On the contrary, because we are humans, we are weak, and so we learn to cling upon and revel in God’s promises. This is faith! And this is when God’s power bursts out from your life!

The Lord showed me different dimensions of faith as He led me to Hebrews 11:

1.       To fear the Lord is to have faith in God; to have faith in God is to fear the Lord

Faith is being sure of what we hope for (v1), and that is being confident of God’s goodness in the land of the living (Ps27:13). “How great is Your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear You” (Ps31:19). The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and God Himself gives us wisdom and understanding. As in Proverbs 2, we must accept and store up God’s commands and words in us and ask the Lord for His wisdom in our daily lives. In every circumstance that you’re in, have faith in God, just trust and believe that He will make all things new. You’ve got to be sure and be confident that God has stored up so much goodness in eternity and that is when we return to be with Jesus forever! That is the reward and the amazing promise God has for us at the end of the race. Faith in God can be described as our faithfulness to Him. When we remain faithful to God in all we do and say, He protects our ways (Prov2:8, Heb.11:7). 

The devil can’t harm us, our problems can’t drown us, people can’t bring us down, unless we allow them to, unless we make a decision in your heart saying, “God I give up, there is no hope in You. I don’t want to trust You. I don’t want to have faith in You. I don’t feel like You love me anymore. I don’t want to walk in Your ways any longer, I’m gonna do my own thing, walk my own path and be the lord of my own life.” This isn’t the faith that pleases God, this isn’t the faith that the ancients were commended for. Rather, give your life, your all to Jesus. Hold on to Him, hold on to His ways and simply look ahead to the prize that God has prepared heavenward in eternity.

2.       Faith leads to obedience; Obedience reaps greater faith 

Has it ever crossed your mind how one moment Jesus prayed “take this cup from me” and the next he prayed “Yet not what I will, but what You will”? (Mark 14:36)

Jesus was obedient to the Father and He chose to deny himself, take up his cross and follow God’s will for him. Though Jesus knew he would be resurrected and that God had a bigger plan, he was a perfect God and perfect man – he experienced fear as all man would. Yet, Jesus clung on to what is ahead and onto God’s Kingdom plan on earth (which is salvation through Jesus Christ), and this is the faith in God Jesus demonstrated and that we must learn. His faith in every single promise of God and every Word of God was expressed in his obedience to death. And as he obeyed, he had greater faith. This faith in God allowed God’s strength and courage to overpower Jesus’ fear. After Jesus prayed, he became courageous and willed to the Father (John 18:8-11).

When we take up our faith in God, it means that we fix our eyes on Jesus – the author and perfector of our faith (Heb. 12:2). God is love, and His love is perfect. Doesn’t scripture say that perfect love casts out all fear? (1 Jn.4:18) Doesn’t it also say that every word of God is flawless (Ps.18:30)? Since Jesus is the way, the truth and the life (Jn. 14:6), and the word became flesh (Jn.1:14), Jesus is the Word, the way and He is love. And because He is perfect and flawless, when we fix our eyes on Him and hope in Him, we allow His perfect love to break away every fear in our hearts that dampens our faith (Isaiah 40:31). And through this, we have the strength and courage to obey the Lord (Heb. 11:8-10, 17-19, 23,27, 31-38). It’s all about Jesus! 

3.       Faith encompasses righteousness in God

In all we do, whether speech or action, we always have to make a conscious decision to be set apart for God or to conform to the world. Hebrews 11:7 demonstrates that righteousness comes by faith.

Noah and Moses made a choice to be set apart (Heb.11:7, 24-26), hence it was credited to them as righteousness that comes by faith. However, we can’t be made righteous on our own. We are found righteous only through Jesus Christ – the author and perfector of our faith. Hence as we clothe ourselves with the righteousness of Christ, we need to spend time meditating on the word of God that we may know the commands of God (Prov. 2:10-15).

Now, how can we have faith in God?  Faith doesn’t stem from ourselves, rather it comes from revelation given by the Holy Spirit (1 Corin.4:13). We need to be filled with the Holy Spirit and in order to do that we need to ask in Jesus’ Name and receive it by faith. Know that when you pray for something like that, the Holy Spirit is working even if you might not feel the ground shaking or electric currents through your body!

Faith in God means obeying without questions or having to know the full picture (Heb.11:8), it means acknowledging God’s faithfulness (Heb.11:11). It also means being sure of what we hope for at the end of this race (Heb.11:16); it is faith that God can work the impossible, being certain of what we do not see (Heb.11:1,17-19). Finally, faith is a choice. God never promised us that we wouldn’t go through suffering, rather it is through sufferings that we develop hope at the end (Rom.5:3-5). We need to persevere in our sufferings and know that hope doesn’t disappoint us because of God’s love (Heb. 10:36, Rom.5:5).

Got it? Or rather, done it?