Nothing but Your Faith; Nobody but God!!!

In Matthew 17:20, Jesus tells his disciples if they had faith as a grain of mustard seed, they could say to this mountain be removed from here to there, and it would move.  Nothing will be impossible for you.  Some of us are and have been facing some impossible situations.

We have tried to make those lifestyle changes that would move us closer to God, but we can’t just seem to get there.

For every one step forward, there’s a challenge which tries to push you two steps back. If this is you, you are in a situation where the only thing between you and defeat, is your faith in God Nothing but your faith, and nobody but God.  Nothing but your faith can keep you seeing the glass half full instead of half empty. Nobody but God can give you the glass to put the water in. Our faith is the foundation of the fundamental element pertaining to our survival.  You lose your faith, you’ve lost the battle.  You lose your faith; you’ve lost your will to live, to win, and to stay in the battle.

Gideon, the youngest son of Joash, led the Israelites in one of their continuing battles against the Midianites.

Gideon was chosen by God as Gideon was threshing wheat at the bottom of a winepress to hide the wheat from the Midianites.  Judges 6:11 tells us an angel of the Lord came and sat under an oak tree at Ophrah.

The angel of the Lord appeared unto Gideon and said, “A mighty hero the Lord is with you.”
Gideon replied, “Sir if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us?  And where are all the miracles our ancestors told us about?  Didn’t they say, ‘the Lord brought us up out of Egypt?’  But now the Lord has abandoned us and handed us over to the Midianites.”

Gideon goes on to doubt himself, doubt his ability, doubt what God was trying to do in him.  Gideon says, “How can I rescue Israel?  My clan is the weakest in the whole tribe of Manasseh, and I am the least in my entire family?

By this time, the Midianites had been attacking at will the Israelites for about 7 years.  Given the length of time of the pressure, the stress, the duress, the press, Gideon has questioned God.

Sometimes, we allow the length of time we are in our situation and circumstance, to dull our senses as to who we are and whose we are.  God was with us before we went into the challenge; God is with us in the midst of the challenge.  God sees the potential in us even when we can’t even see the reason for going on. It is at this point that nothing but your faith and nobody but God can help. It is when the bad times seem like they’ll never end, that you’ve got to believe that nothing but your faith and nobody but God.

Despite his doubt, despite disbelief, Gideon needed a sign.  God gave him a sign, and then God went on to show Gideon that in order to win, it’s nothing but your faith, and nobody but God. God took Gideon’s army from 32,000 to 300.  In other words it doesn’t take a whole lot of folk to start a new life with new beginnings.  It only takes one asking for a clean heart and a right spirit. Nothing but your faith, and nobody but God.

“Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” - Matthew 17:20

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Love, Hiding in Your Heart?

Those of you who know me personally know that I’m a person soft-spoken when it comes to consideration for others. My spirit told me so many times, “Just cut to the chase! You will walk 5 miles around something to keep from just saying what’s really on your heart!” And the spirit is right…the “diplomatic me” has such a hard time even speaking the truth in love. The reason I’m better at writing than speaking is that I have time to more carefully choose my words. It’s a gift and a hindrance all in one.

God has created as diverse a palate of personalities as He has variations in the colors of our skin, for reasons far above our understanding. Not all of us would make good trial lawyers or drill sergeants…thank heavens I am neither! 

Still, when pondering the above Scripture today, I thought of families and the need for expressed love. Most of us have at least one parent or grandparent from whom words of love trickled rather than flowed. It’s just not easy for some people to say those “three little big words.” Grandma was very, very open in her feelings. 

She praised hard but when circumstances called for it, she could come down hard on you like a hammer…but she did both from a heart abounding in love! Grandpa was the strong, silent type who was better at action love than spoken love; but he loved strongly and we all felt it without question. When he did actually say he loved you, it really meant something special. My parents were both the same way, Mom being more open and Dad being more reserved. Another lesson in itself, and I think that certain ministers like Bishop T.D. Jakes have such a high calling in teaching men how to open up and be more expressively loving toward their spouses and children.

The most tragic young people (who often grow up to be adults with emotional issues) I know of are ones who honestly don’t know either way, through word or deed, that they’re loved. They may get open criticism on a daily or even hourly basis; but no underlying affection to let them know the rebuke is spoken for their good -- and not just as a weapon to beat down their spirits. Still other kids wind up with every conceivable toy, gadget, or privilege to do whatever they wish, but wonder in their hearts whether it’s just a means to keep them “out of their parents’ hair.” They’re left without the security of knowing that love has built safe boundaries around them.

Remember, how we as parents treat our children establishes in them some mindset—good or bad—of how they perceive their Heavenly Father. As a matter of fact, as child abuse and neglect go, the cruelest thing that can be done to injure one of God’s little ones is simply not to love him or her…or to love in secret without ever giving that child the satisfaction of feeling and knowing that love in a tangible way. Conversely, there are also many young people and adults who withhold affection from their parents for one reason or another, waiting instead to utter a delayed “I love you” over an open casket or to a stone memorial with a name and date on it. Lack of love accounts for nearly every sin in the Bible, if you get right down it. How fractured we can be...how much we need Jesus to get it right! 

"Open criticism is better than unexpressed love." - Proverbs 27:5 (God’s Word translation)

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A Spirit of Thankfulness

One of the times that a believer has to remain on his or her most diligent guard is at the end of a hard trial, rather than right in the middle of it. I say this from experience, because if we’re not careful, we can become calloused to the blessings of God when at last we stand under the spout.


Our modern culture is one of a feeling of entitlement. You hear it in our conversations, in our commercials, and sadly now, in our kids: “I DESERVE to be, to have, to do…. It’s my RIGHT to be, to have, to do….” The real test we must pass is not whether we can get through the hard times, but whether we will remain thankful and dependent upon God once He allows us to arrive in the place of plenty.

In a recent self-examination in my prayer time, the mirror of God revealed to me that the unidentifiable odor in my own life was the beginnings of a spirit of unthankfulness, threatening to mildew everything I’m blessed to call my own. It happens sometimes. We go from a really difficult season of adversity, where we’ve had to stay on our knees, to a time of quiet goodness, an oasis if you will…only to find discontentment in “the new normal.”

Manna was the new normal for the Israelites as they journeyed toward the Promised Land. God rained bread from the heavens, yet they mourned for the leeks and garlic they left behind in the place of bondage. And then, when the consistency of a daily provision began to bore their lust for variety, God gave them what they asked for—quail—till it literally came out their noses. And they dared complain again because the taste of the quail soon got old too!

Does our insolence perhaps kindle God’s anger against us too, as we complain “while the meat is yet in our mouths?” Are we ever satisfied?!!!

I’m ashamed to admit, my own attitude at times emulates the Israelites’. God cautioned them, when they would finally reach the place of prosperity, not to forget from where He brought them. He warned them not to make idols for themselves right in the place of His blessing! 

If what comes out of your mouth begins to smack of ingratitude, then a caution light is flashing that your spirit of thankfulness is running low.

Apostle Paul tells us to examine ourselves in 2 Corinthians 13:5. We ask God to change us, when in fact, He expects some of this changing to come from our own application of His Word. Jesus, faced with death itself, may have asked at first for an alternate route, but quickly put his own desires to the side and concluded his prayer with, “nevertheless, not my will, but Yours.” This shows us that even when our flesh begs us to compromise, we do have the power to surrender to God’s will!

I don’t want to anger God with my whining, my complaining, or even my silent discontentment in the little things—ESPECIALLY in a season of Divine provision. So today, digging through the refrigerator of my heart, I pulled out that mysterious stinky thing wrapped in aluminum foil that caused me to wrinkle my nose in disgust when I opened up the door. I toss my attitude into the dumpster of repentance, fall on my face, and give thanks for the many blessings of the Lord Who always looks out for my best interest, sees around every corner, and never slumbers or sleeps as He watches over His Word to perform it.

“We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” 2 Corinthians 10:5 (NIV)

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Nothing but Your Faith; Nobody but God!!!!

In Matthew 17:20, Jesus tells his disciples if they had faith as a grain of mustard seed, they could say to this mountain be removed from here to there, and it would move.  Nothing will be impossible for you.  Some of us are and have been facing some impossible situations.

We have tried to make those lifestyle changes that would move us closer to God, but we can’t just seem to get there.

For every one step forward, there’s a challenge which tries to push you two steps back. If this is you, you are in a situation where the only thing between you and defeat, is your faith in God Nothing but your faith, and nobody but God.  Nothing but your faith can keep you seeing the glass half full instead of half empty.Nobody but God can give you the glass to put the water in.Our faith is the foundation of the fundamental element pertaining to our survival.  You lose your faith, you’ve lost the battle.  You lose your faith; you’ve lost your will to live, to win, and to stay in the battle.

Gideon, the youngest son of Joash, led the Israelites in one of their continuing battles against the Midianites. 

Gideon was chosen by God as Gideon was threshing wheat at the bottom of a winepress to hide the wheat from the Midianites.  Judges 6:11 tells us an angel of the Lord came and sat under an oak tree at Ophrah. 

The angel of the Lord appeared unto Gideon and said, “A mighty hero the Lord is with you.”  

Gideon replied, “Sir if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us?  And where are all the miracles our ancestors told us about?  Didn’t they say, ‘the Lord brought us up out of Egypt?’  But now the Lord has abandoned us and handed us over to the Midianites.”

Gideon goes on to doubt himself, doubt his ability, doubt what God was trying to do in him.  Gideon says, “How can I rescue Israel?  My clan is the weakest in the whole tribe of Manasseh, and I am the least in my entire family?

By this time, the Midianites had been attacking at will the Israelites for about 7 years.  Given the length of time of the pressure, the stress, the duress, the press, Gideon has questioned God.

Sometimes, we allow the length of time we are in our situation and circumstance, to dull our senses as to who we are and whose we are.  God was with us before we went into the challenge; God is with us in the midst of the challenge.  God sees the potential in us even when we can’t even see the reason for going on. It is at this point that nothing but your faith and nobody but God can help. It is when the bad times seem like they’ll never end, that you’ve got to believe that nothing but your faith and nobody but God.

Despite his doubt, despite disbelief, Gideon needed a sign.  God gave him a sign, and then God went on to show Gideon that in order to win, it’s nothing but your faith, and nobody but God. God took Gideon’s army from 32,000 to 300.  In other words it doesn’t take a whole lot of folk to start a new life with new beginnings.  It only takes one asking for a clean heart and a right spirit. Nothing but your faith, and nobody but God.

“Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” - Matthew 17:20

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Trust and You Won’t Be Crushed!!!!

By Thy Faith Lord.

This Day:

It was just at the edge of dusk, 6 months ago this evening, when I woke up to find that I was lying flat on my back on the cold pavement. I remembered seeing the dog run out in front of our motorcycle, and I remembered us bracing and hitting it, then it was like being tumbled in a dark clothes dryer. 

There hadn't even been time to be scared, much less avoid the impact. How long had I been unconscious? Someone had already stood up our motorcycle, and a couple of men were looking through the tour pack for some ID. I could see out the corner of my eye that Dana was lying about 10 feet away from me, but I couldn't hear him speak and I couldn't see if he was moving. People standing over us were saying things that indicated to me that we were both bad off. 

At first I couldn't even talk, and it was so hard to breathe--I suppose from having had the wind knocked out of me. My helmet was shattered. Later I would find that I had a basal skull fracture and a fractured bone in my neck. I vaguely remember a woman holding my helmet and talking about how messed up it was. Someone commented that my head was bleeding. I wanted to go to Dana but I couldn't get up, and they were trying to keep me still so they could put me on a backboard. My arm was twisted over my head and I thought it was dislocated, but was told later that the shoulder was broken in two places.

In the midst of the confusion and the excruciating pain, for a brief moment it was as if the noise was muffled enough to hear, quite clearly, the Lord whisper just one word to me..."COVENANT." And in that moment, I knew exactly what He meant. I began to cry and say, "Thank you, God, for rebuking the devourer for our sakes!" A peace I can't even begin to describe rested on me, one that would get me through the longest night of my life.

We were airlifted, one at a time, from Williamson Memorial to St. Mary's. My stepson Coby held my hand and coached me to breathe in sync with him while they repositioned my broken shoulder. Then as I lay on a gurney in the hallway, a doctor came up and with no expression whatsoever, told me, "Your husband is unconscious and has a brain bleed. His brain has begun to swell. We'll do what we can." With that, she turned and left. I had to make up my mind right then and there...am I going to trust God or am I going to collapse under a weight of fear? I chose to trust God, and that's what I said out loud to her back as she was walking away.

For just a little while, they wheeled me into a holding room with Dana. He was lying there, eyes closed, not moving. I reached my fingers through the bars on our gurneys, gripped his hand, and prayed for him. Looking back now, I wonder whether the doctors might have thought he was going to die, and they were giving me a chance to say goodbye. But I spoke to him this Scripture which came to my remembrance, before they wheeled us in two different directions, "(You) shall live and not die, to declare the works of the Lord." (Psalm 118:17)

There are those times when we have to choose to believe, or be crushed under the weight of despair. And there are times when we can't just think it or hope it...we have to hear ourselves say it.

Dana spent 82 days in 3 hospitals, couldn't even swallow an ice chip for the first 43 days. He lay in the ICU trauma ward for 17 days comatose and running an insanely high fever. He had multiple fractures and a brain injury, but when Satan tried to take him out, God drew the line and said, "No."

Though it's been a physically and emotionally exhausting 6 months for both Dana and me, we have not lost our joy and we have not lost our love for life and one another. God has been so good to us. I'm telling you, friends, you need Jesus. You need Him, your marriage needs Him, your family needs Him to carry you through times like this. Covenant relationship with God doesn't mean you'll never face difficulty. It can, however, mean the difference between you surviving or being mowed down by the enemy.

Sooner or later, we all have to face the most difficult time of our lives. Are you prepared? God can keep you from falling apart. I can say that because, six months later, Dana and I are still held together by the duct tape of God's wonderful, saving grace. Even these fractured pieces form something beautiful...like a prism of glass that scatters light in every direction, testifying that truly, love never fails.

"But the Lord God keeps me from being disgraced. So I refuse to give up, because I know God will never let me down." - Isaiah 50:7 (CEV)

AN “IN-SPITE-OF” KIND OF LIFE

Some of us still have the notion that true blessing exists only if there are no problems. As a matter of fact, many people come to Christ thinking that salvation exes out any future potential for trouble, only to be disappointed and disillusioned. Some depart from the faith when they perceive that God has chosen not to come through for them in a crisis, in the manner which they'd hoped. And still others live in a topsy-turvy, “one-day chicken, next-day feathers” kind of mindset. Today I say I'm blessed, tomorrow I say I'm not blessed, on and on. So what DOES our Lord really mean when He uses the phrase "abundant life?"

I believe the answer in part lies in the fact that He mentioned His provision and the attack of the enemy in the same passage. It's as if there's a huge "HOWEVER" that links the two. He isn't offering abundant life in place of our suffering...He's offering this gift IN SPITE OF it.

So for the person who says, "If my life isn't going to be without trouble as a believer, what's the use in believing at all?"  Well, friend, believer or not, you're not going to escape trouble in some capacity. As believers, though, we can through prayer and the Word indeed ward off many disasters before they ever get a chance to come to fruition in our lives. 

Sowing and reaping good is one such way of avoiding some hardships. Making life decisions based on God's wise Word also keeps us from many seasons of regret and heartbreak as well. For the remainder of the troubles we face in life, those things we can't altogether avoid, comes the assurance Jesus gave in John 10:10. "The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows)."  You can't afford to live without the One who assures a simultaneous outpouring of abundant, full life even in times when you're being pummeled by the enemy's strategy against you. 

How is it that we can simultaneously have joy while all hell is breaking loose? That is the miracle...NOT that we have no trouble to start with!  Instead, the true miracle lies in the fact that we can be battling sickness, financial trouble, problems with our kids, aggravation on the job; and at the same time have a calm, navigating peace that we can neither deny nor explain. 

As Paul named off a laundry list of potential unpleasantries in life, he countered all these things with the huge weight of the love of God.

Scripture Of The Day: "Who shall ever separate us from Christ's love? Shall suffering and affliction and tribulation? Or calamity and distress? Or persecution or hunger or destitution or peril or sword? Even as it is written, For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long; we are regarded and counted as sheep for the slaughter. Yet amid all these things we are more than conquerors and gain a surpassing victory through Him Who loved us. For I am persuaded beyond doubt (am sure) that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things impending and threatening nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."  - Romans 8:35-39 (AMP)

TIME-LAPSED BLESSING

Have you ever watched a clip of time-lapse photography as a flower blooms, a sun rises and sets, or inhabitants of a city swarm, frenzied, like busy ants in a colony?  It takes only a few seconds to see the painstaking, micro-movements of activity, when in fact the process took hours, or days, to unfold.

Sometimes the blessings of our lives occur so subtly, so gradually, that we fail to acknowledge them until after-the-fact, when we are able to view the whole picture from start to finish.

Some of you are experiencing an extremely slowed down pace right now, and it is an uncomfortable, even painful switch from the life you’re used to.  A loved one has gotten ill (or maybe even yourself); a work adjustment such as a layoff or forced retirement has shaken your long-term goals; an empty nest just got full again; or God has perhaps led you into a place you thought would be teeming with production…only instead of what you expected, now your steps have ground down to a near halt.  If you’re used to running a marathon, it’s just plain difficult to wade knee-deep in the mud of transition.  You may even find yourself asking, “Lord, are You SURE this is what You ordered for me?”

Change is hard sometimes; it just is…especially for those of us who thrive on structure.  We’re so sure, when we’re slammed by any unexpected turn that throws our schedule off, that it HAS to be an attack of the enemy to sabotage our happiness, peace, and progress.  Certainly, that is the case sometimes.  But know this:  God is not at all taken by surprise at your circumstances; in fact, the very event that threatens to delay your blessing’s arrival by years could well be a Divine setup for a time-lapse blessing.  Don’t disdain the season you’re in!

I once made a statement that the Lord expects us to bear fruit in every season of our lives; and in one sense, that may be true.  However, this morning as I meditated on the Lord’s goodness while peering out at the changing, falling leaves, God brought that statement back to my memory and corrected me.   He spoke to me, so clearly, that regeneration doesn’t occur without a dying off first.  Oh, the tree itself is not dying when the amber and crimson leaves break free from their security and drift to the ground.  Instead, the tree is undergoing a necessary process in order that life may continue and that it may produce fruit in another season. 

As you dig your heels in and patience has her perfect work in you, be assured that you aren’t washed-up, and you’re no has-been.  God is not narrowing your borders or putting you out to pasture!  He has a far greater plan than you might realize.  Embrace the falling of the leaves and enjoy ambling through avenues of transition…for though the crisp bite of winter’s chill seems to threaten to stay forever, as surely as spring will come and buds will break forth again, you too will burst with new growth in HIS INFINITELY PERFECT TIMING.  You’ll look back at your time-lapsed blessing, having come away with so much more for having had to wait, and you’ll breathe the incredulous words, “Wow. You knew what You were doing the whole time!”

Scripture of the Day: “And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint.”  (Galations 6:9 AMP)