Are you led by faith or by your feelings? Let me share with you that it is an absolutely CRAZY Holy Spirit thing when your peace and faith remain unshakable when you are going through a storm! But when you think about it – it makes TOTAL Christ-Like sense! Matthew 7:24-25 says:
“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.”
And so I ask you:
WHAT IS YOUR FOUNDATION?
Only God can keep you in perfect peace when everything around you indicates that you should feel otherwise, but here is the thing – we are NOT to be led by our feelings, we are to be led by faith! This is something that throughout the course of our lives, we will have to do – over and over and over again. Different situations, same kind of trust-in-God faith! It’s the only way we as Believers should live! God is telling us:
“FOCUS ON ME – NOT THE STORM. TRUST IN ME – NOT YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES. I SEE IN FULL, YOU ONLY SEE IN PART. NOTHING COMES AS A SURPRISE TO ME. YOUR STEPS ARE ORDAINED BY ME. I’VE GOT YOU! STOP FIGHTING ME, STOP STRUGGLING! REST IN MY ARMS AND LET ME CARRY YOU THROUGH THE STORM. I AM NOT A GOD THAT WILL FAIL YOU. YOU ONLY HAVE TO TRUST AND BELIEVE.”
Whatever it is you are going through, God is RIGHT there with you. We are so use to “figuring out things ourselves” or “planning what to do” but here is the thing – God did not create us to be independent of Him. We are to ABIDE IN Him. Are you allowing something to destroy your peace? If so, that is NOT of God. Philippians 4:8 tells us:
“Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, think about these things.”
The devil would make you think that God is holding out on you, (just like he did with Eve) – DON’T BELIEVE HIM. DON’T LISTEN TO HIM. The taunts of the father of deception would tell you that God doesn’t care, that He won’t answer your prayers – NOTHING can be farther from the truth! Rebuke those thoughts as Jesus did when Jesus said in Matthew 16:23. Hebrews 10:23 tells us:
“Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.”
Rejoice and praise God for a Father Who keeps you in perfect peace while the storm rages ALL around you. He loves you SO much! There is NOTHING better than being able to testify to what it is that God has done in your life not only AFTER the storm subsides and God has brought you through, but also to be able to see ALL that the devil has tried to do to derail you from your faith in Christ, yet You chose to stand firm! The storm becomes a praise report of what God has done (and what He IS able to do!) for you to share later in your walk with someone else going through. So stand steadfast trusting that the Father will bring you through because He will! \0/ \0/ \0/
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