It matters how you perceive and respond to the counsel, instructions and admonitions given you in God’s word. To win in life, you must always respond in faith to the word; you must learn to function in the arena of faith, where the only thing that counts is what God has said.

 

You may be facing a challenging situation in your finances. But as a child of God, what do you see?Do you see yourself suffering under the economic crisis as the rest of the world, or you see the truth that says " _when men are cast down, then thou shall say, there is lifting up_…” (Job 22:29).

 

Caleb and Joshua did not deny the fact that there were giants in the land God promised to the children of Israel, but they were moved by what God has said. Their response when asked to describe the land was based on faith in the word of God. While theirs was a leap on the word, the other ten spies gave a faithless response- an evil report.

 

Never allow what your physical senses perceive- what you see, hear or feel- determine the circumstances of your existence. The bible says, “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” (2nd Corinthians 4:18). Let your gaze be fixed on God’s eternal and infallible word and maintain d faith –response all the time.