Not Subject to Circumstances
Recently the Lord spoke to my heart something that I feel led to share with you. It has to do with believing Him for answers in our lives.
Too many times when we’re believing God for something — whether it’s healing or provision or direction or anything else — we tend to think that it’s coming. That “someday” we’re going to get enough Word into our hearts or build up enough faith to receive or understand our inheritance well enough for things to actually start moving in the direction we want them to go.
But that is putting things off into the future. I want to encourage you that you can’t always be looking to some time in the future for your breakthrough — the Word is working on your behalf right now!
Now, don’t get me wrong — God’s timing is different from our timing, and His is perfect. Not everything happens instantly, and in our I-want-it-now/microwave society, we have to learn about patience and waiting and trusting God’s timing.
But we can have faith between “amen” and “there it is!” Faith is believing something we can’t see yet. Faith says, “God heard me the moment I prayed, and I believe the Word is working, regardless of what I feel.”
It helps me to realize that the Word of God is working right now. It’s never-changing. It is not subject to circumstances — rather, circumstances are subject to it. The Word has worked for thousands of years, it’s not going to stop now. It never returns void, but always accomplishes what it’s sent forth to do (Isaiah 55:11)...as long as you believe it.
Don’t think, “When is the Word going to start working?” If you and I are putting it into our hearts in abundance and speaking it out our mouths, it’s working right now, regardless of what we can or cannot see!
The key for us is to not change — to stay with believing that, and refuse to doubt.
No “Two Ways” About It
The word “doubt” comes from the same root as the word “double.” It literally means “two ways” — to think or believe two ways about something. To doubt means to be of two minds, or to try and stand in two ways — only you can’t. Don’t let circumstances cause you to doubt — cause you to change your believing. Instead, stand fast on what you know the Word says, and keep believing it. You want to stay with your original way of believing!
In Matthew 14, when Peter walked on the water but faltered when he saw the wind and waves, Jesus said to him: “Why did you doubt?” (v. 31). In other words, Peter, you started out well, and you walked on water! Why did you change?
I believe there’s a message there for us. Don’t change! Stay focused on one thing — the answer — and don’t let the circumstances move you off of that.
You know, the devil’s only hope, when you’re in faith, is to get you to change, or to doubt. To get you believing that the Word works for other people, or it’s worked before but not this time. Instead, you can fill your heart and mind with what God says and have more faith that it’s working than what you see happening (or not happening) around you.
Colossians 2:5 says, Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. That can be you - steadfast and immovable! The Word is working!
