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Unquestioning Faith

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Simon answered, “Master, we’ve worked hard all night and haven’t caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down the nets.” (Luke 5:5 )

Simon was a chief fisherman. He knew all about the rudiments and technicalities of the sea. He knew the times and seasons of the seas, he knew practically everything there was to know. And here came Jesus to tell “the expert” to go out and let down his nets. First of all, fishermen caught more fishes at night than during the day. But Jesus chose the later. This seeming wrong timing by Jesus should have discouraged Simon from adhering to Him. But he obeyed. Sometimes life pushes you to the wall till you obey anything just to see if things would work. Or maybe Simon obeyed because He knew Jesus was a man of authority. And that was probably why he obeyed because Simon called Jesus “Master”. He said, I will let down the nets. Faith is the hand that takes whatever we ask for or need but obedience is the feet that takes us to that thing that we want to have. Without obedience nothing will happen that must happen. Simon obeyed and that brought the results he needed. He believed in the Master but that didn’t bring the fishes into his boat. What did, was unwavering obedience. We do not cease to obey because we have faith, on the contrary we obey because of our faith. Faith is only potent enough to take what obedience leads us to. Let our faith be given expression by our obedience.

Prayer_Bead: My Master and Lord, thank you for your revealed word, directed to me. Thank you for your counsel and guidance. Help my faith by prompting me to obey.

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Return God’s property

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“Caesar’s,” they replied. Then he said to them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.” ( Matthew 22:21 )

What would you do if you borrowed someone’s item and the person requested for it later? You’d naturally have to give it back to them—the obvious thing to do right? God gave us life, so we must give our lives back to Him. A life not dedicated to the worship and service of God is spiritual robbery (in the sense that such a life is not returned). Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what is His. Our spirit, soul and body belongs to God. It is only appropriate to give back to Him what is His. But how do we give back to God? Its by applying Matthew 22:37, which says “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ *Our love for God is the true expression of our stewardship and giving back of ourselves for His glory*. Love is the selfless giving of self for the service and benefit of another as if one’s needs do not exist. Loving God with all our will, emotions, intellect and memory brings pleasure and glory to God. Give to God what belongs to Him in all circumstances. Let’s not rob God of His property.

Prayer_Bead: Father in Heaven, the source and sustainer of all things, I surrender and yield my spirit, soul and body to you. I love you with my heart, intellect and emotions.

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What did God say?

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But about the resurrection of the dead–have you not read what God said to you, ( Matthew 22:31 )

Could it be that God has something to say about that issue disturbing your peace of mind? But you haven’t read about it yet? Could you be waiting on God to tell you something he had already said to you so many years earlier in His word? The will of God for us is often hidden in plain site. It is the responsibility of the believer to search it out. There is definitely something about what you are enquiring from Google and friends that God has an absolute voice on in His word. Have you not yet read what God said to you? There is a definite word to you as an individual in God’s word as well as a corporate word. Search the scriptures for the message God left in there for you. A clue to finding what God has to say to you is: eagerly desire to know what He said. Read the scriptures with the intent to find something and not just to know what the scripture says. Be very intentional in your study of the word.

Prayer_Bead: Father of all glory, open my eyes to see and my heart to discern what your word to me is. Give me a fresh passion for bible study.

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The voice of true faith

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30 Two blind men were sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was going by, they shouted, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!” 31 The crowd rebuked them and told them to be quiet, but they shouted all the louder, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!” ( Matthew 20:30-31 )

Sometimes in order to be heard by the Lord, we must ignore the voice of the world and people around us. And we must be consistent with our confessions too. Keep saying it, don’t stop talking it, until there is a reaction from the other end of the divide–heaven. The two blind men were consistent in their confessions regardless of the crowd. So that the louder the crowd tried to stop them, the louder they also made their voice heard. Sometimes, in the battle for heaven’s recognition, we must ignore what the status quo of the day is. We must ignore the “inappropriateness” of our faith. Actually faith is illogical, it is disbelief and doubt that tries to analyse and make logic out of spiritual truth and realities. Today, enter your prayer closet with the full assurance of God’s response to you if you push through the doubt screaming at you. Ignore the flesh, press on with expectancy and you’d not be disappointed, even as the two blind men were not.

Prayer_Bead: King of glory, help me to push through the noise of doubt and disbelief all around me. Keep my gaze on you alone in every chaotic situation.

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Haven’t you read?

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“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ ( Matthew 19 : 4 )

Accurate knowledge of the root—the beginning, the foundation—of a thing is essential for the sustenance and continuity of it. Knowledge cures ignorance and compensates for unnecessary embarrassment and troubles. Whatever it is that may be troubling us in any season of our lives has a solution somewhere in black and white [print]. It behoves us to read. There are certain questions, certain attitudes and ways of doing things that will never be displayed or portrayed by a person who has read. Ignorance is friends with unbelief, embarrassment, stagnation and destruction. What we are ignorant about or ignoring is often the same things that pay the bride price for our frustration. There is a knowledge you might be ignoring that holds the key to your next level. There is an ancient secret, hidden behind the charade of ink that is probably concealing the doorway into your announcement. Pick a book today. Read a book today. Get knowledge, don’t let the Wise One ask you one day, have you not read?

Prayer_Bead: Father in Heaven, thank you for making known your will in your word. Give me the fortitude and the tenacity to search the written word. Reveal to me anything that conceals my destiny.

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