August 26th ·

 

Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath

 

begun a good work in you will perform it until the day

 

of Jesus Christ: (Philippians 1:6).

 

There’re those who sometimes think the

 

Lord is "a bit slow" in delivering on His

 

promises, and then they try to "help" or

 

"fix" things for Him their own way; that’s

 

wrong! The trouble isn’t with God, but with

 

men, when they haven’t mixed the Word

 

with faith. Take the story of Abraham and

 

Sarah as a case in point. When Abraham was seventy-five

 

years old and Sarah, sixty-five, God gave them the

 

promise of an offspring (read Genesis 17:1-!(https://www.nairaland.com/grid/cool.png/3).

 

Ten years later, they still hadn’t seen any descendants.

 

Then, Sarah, who at this time believed she had passed

 

the age of childbearing, proposed that Abraham took

 

Hagar, her Egyptian maid, to bear him a child: perhaps,

 

God’s Word could come to pass through her. Abraham

 

concurred to Sarah’s suggestion. A child indeed came

 

from this relationship—Ishmael. However, this singular

 

act brought untold frustrations to Sarah herself (read

 

Genesis 16), and other incalculable problems to Isaac

 

and his seed, and the conflict continues today between

 

the seed of Isaac and the seed of Ismael.

 

The Lord never fails or disappoints. He however expects

 

us to mix His Word with faith at all times; that’s what

 

brings about the reality in the "now" of our lives.

 

Hebrews 11:1 says "Now faith is the substance of things

 

hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." When God

 

gives you His Word, He expects your absolute trust and

 

confidence in Him to bring it to pass. His Word is

 

dependable; it never fails. Jesus emphasized this in Mark

 

13:31 when He said, "Heaven and earth shall pass away:

 

but my words shall not pass away."

 

Trust in the Lord wholeheartedly, and rest your faith on

 

His Word. Don’t use human wisdom or ideas to try to

 

work things out for Him; don’t "rationalize" His Word.

 

Be confident that He’ll deliver as promised, for He’s not

 

a man that He should lie. "So let us seize and hold fast

 

and retain without wavering the hope we cherish and

 

confess and our acknowledgement of it, for He Who

 

promised is reliable (sure) and faithful to His

 

word" (Hebrews 10:23 AMP).