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How to Face an Impossible Situation – By Faith
Rex
Rouis
Faith is hearing
Jesus say, “Come.” Believing is actually throwing your leg over the side of the
boat.
How are we to face impossible situations,
ignore them and hope they go away, or face them with an overcoming faith in
God?
We need to know because only a correct
response will bring success. The Bible tells us to respond with faith, because
with Him nothing is impossible.
Jesus said, “The
things that are impossible for people to do are possible for God to do.” Luke 18:27 God’s Word
Translation
“And Jesus, having
turned His eyes upon them and having considered them, said to them, ‘In the
presence of men, as men look at this, it is impossible. But in the presence of
God, as He looks at this, all things are possible.’” Matt 19:26 Wuest
Expanded Translation
Only faith is able to grasp the reality of
the possible in the face of the impossible.
Only faith has the power to move seemingly
impossible mountains.
Only faith has the ability to look directly
at an impossible situation and know that it will change.
Abraham had a clear understanding of how
impossible his situation was. Both he and Sarah were way past the age of
bearing a child, but God had promised that they would.
In Abraham’s heart, the reality of God’s
promise was more real that the facts about their situation.
He did not ignore the facts, but rather he
considered the facts as temporary and God’s promise as permanent and real.
Only a heart filled with faith can face the
impossible and still know that God can change it.
Read how Abraham had sufficient faith to look
directly at the impossible and yet be fully persuaded that God was able to
perform what He had promised.
“(As it is written, I
have made thee a father of many nations,) in the presence of Him whom he
believed, even God, who quickens the dead, and calls those things which be not
as though they were.
“Who against hope
believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to
that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
“And being not weak
in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred
years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb:
“He staggered not at
the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to
God; And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to
perform.” Romans
4:17-21
Faith is not ignoring the problem. Faith is
the tangible knowing that God is bigger than the problem, and that He is
willing and able to help.
Acknowledging the problem is the first step
in obtaining faith. Faith has the courage to look at what currently is and
still know what will be.
Faith ‘calls those
things which be not as though they were’.
This is the creative power of faith. It
brings the power and presence of God into any situation.
Denial, on the other
hand, ‘calls those things which be as though they are not’.
This is not creatively running to the issue
with the power of God. This is running from the issue with the weakness of man.
Run to the roar with the faith of God. He can
change any situation.
How then do you receive this faith? By running
to the Word of God, and by seeking Him till you get the answer.
When faith comes, so comes the answer and the
victory.
The Bible says that, ‘Faith
comes by hearing, and hearing by the (spoken personal) word of God’.
Seek Him till you hear Him. You are literally
one hearing away from victory in any seemingly impossible situation.
Faith is the tangible knowing that God is
bigger than the problem, and that He is willing and able to help.
Rex
Rouis
@HopeFaithPrayer
Faith
is hearing Jesus say, “Come.” Believing is actually throwing your leg over the
side of the boat.
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