Kingdom EncountersSample

When God puts you in a dilemma and there is nothing you can or should do, you do nothing. You “stand by.” But while you are standing by, continue to seek Him. Continue to cry out to Him. Continue to ask Him for direction, even though you can’t even fathom what kind of direction He might give. Because even though the Israelites were up against an uncrossable sea, God told them to go forward.

God’s guidance will always require faith to follow. As we see in Hebrews 11:29, “By faith they passed through the Red Sea as though they were passing through dry land.” Remember, faith is in your feet, not in your feelings. You may feel full of faith but have no faith because faith always shows up in what you do. If your feet aren’t moving when God has given you an instruction to move, then you are faithless. In fact, a person can feel no faith at all but at the same time, be full of faith because their decisions are done in obedience to God’s revealed will. Faith is never to be measured by your feelings. Faith is in your feet.

Faith must operate when fear is present. Faith does not automatically eradicate or remove fear; it overrides it. Fear immobilizes. Faith moves, even if a person is fearful. Until God sees faith, you don’t see God. God rewards those who seek Him. God rewards faith. The reverse of both of those statements is true as well. You will see over and over again in Scripture that God withheld His involvement until the people did something. He waited until He saw what they did, as a result of their faith. See, a lot of us are waiting on God to move when God is actually waiting on us. We may talk a good faith-game. But if our feet haven’t moved in response to His revealed will, we are all talk with no walk. Unless you operate on what God has told you to do, you are not pleasing God. Faith pleases God. Without faith, it is impossible to please Him.