Your Record of Faith

If you have been in the wilderness for a while, you may have noticed that God will usually not do things the easy way, and that He has engineered your wilderness activities, needs, and challenges, to require pure faith to get through them. Whether you have had to pay a bill that you have no money for, be healed for a physical problem that you have no medical care for, or to help you to overcome a sin habit. God wants to build a record of faith in your life that He can use to encourage and build up other people’s faith with. The very stumbling blocks that used to be your reproach, will later be used as stepping stones to build a path to a ministry to show others how God can help them just the same way that He helped you. Someday, you may actually be thankful that God allowed some of these problems to happen in your life, because they will provide the very foundation of faith and experience that your service to mankind is later built upon.

It can be frustrating at times because you may find yourself just wanting God to give you an easy way out of your problem. But what God is doing is building a treasure chest of faith that you can open up and pull out a past miracle from to give people faith to believe that God will help them in just the same way as He helped you. When God decides to do a miracle in your life, He will allow a situation to become absolutely impossible before He will step in and act. He does this so that you know completely that it was Him that helped you, and so that nobody or nothing else will receive the glory but Himself for what He does. God wants people to believe in Him, and that's why He allows your problem to become so unsolvable first. You can either choose to get offended, or to get excited when an impossible problem crops up. But when you see enough times of how God has faithfully helped you, you will learn to better trust in His love and desire to help you, and it will also show you just how reliable He truly is. God just wants to build your faith.

God has built your faith so that you can believe for even greater things as we enter this time of great revival and spiritual warfare. All of the faith that God built in your wilderness will help you to have faith for the tougher battles ahead in your Canaan. When you have seen God provide and protect you enough times, you will have faith and not fear when you see an impossible need, battle, or enemy rise up in front of you in your promise land ministry. Try to see your challenges as an opportunity to add yet another great victory to your record of faith. Although we may get weary at the end of our wilderness, we cannot just expect everything ahead to be easy. It is a war. Let's not just talk about what God once did, but let's allow Him to take us to an even greater level of trusting Him. What God does in your life now, will result in lasting eternal glory for Him.