Believe

Is it possible to move on?  Is it possible to live beyond pain and disappointment?  People promised things would get better.  But.  Things were not better.  Nothing had changed.  So. I asked them if they could have one miracle in their life, what would it be . . . what miracle would make life better for them?  It was easy for them, they knew exactly what the miracle would be, what one thing needed to change in order to have a better life.

I am always amazed that most everybody can immediately delineate the one miracle that would make a difference in their life.  It's as if they are waiting to be reborn, wanting a miracle to release them from the one thing that has taken their life over.

The thing is . . . some things are extremely hard, painful, and life-consuming . . . and . . . whether it is  in the past or in the present, if, we keep focused on it, every other life experience is funneled and filtered . . . through that one thing.  

We've all been there, at one time or another, when one thing becomes so big that it is all we think about, until it seems to control every thought, feeling, and action. It's exhausting and time consuming, blinding us from seeing whatever else exists in our life.  It takes a willful decision to turn our focus away from the one thing, to seek God, to trust God is present and at work, and to believe God could do something more.

Consider.
 When you go through deep waters,
      I will be with you.
   When you go through rivers of difficulty,
      you will not drown.
   When you walk through the fire of oppression,
      you will not be burned up;
      the flames will not consume you (Isaiah 43:2, NLT). 


We need to look at the promise of God, I will be with you--you will not drown--you will not be burned up--the flames will not consume you. It doesn’t matter what one thing we need a miracle for, how big or small the challenge appears to be, every detail shifts in our life when we believe God.
So.

Do you believe God?  

Do you believe what God says--that He will carry you through the rivers of difficulty and the fire of oppression from the one thing?  

When we can truthfully answer yes, the miracle has begun, the one thing no longer can control and consume us because we believe God, trusting Him to be present, to get us through it all, to free us from the consuming power of the one thing.

Surrender whatever is controlling and consuming you, believe God and believe what God says. 

Learning to Kickstart the day believing God,
Kerrie

(written by Kerrie Carlisle Palmer © 2011 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED)