God Moves for Us
Faith and obedience please God, and then God moves for
us! A demonstration of faith will produce a God-sized result, and a God-sized
result is greater than anything we could do on our own. When we are facing
monumental situations in our lives, these examples from scripture remind us to
stand firm in our faith, walk diligently in obedience, and fully trust that God
is going to move on our behalf.
Kathy Cheek
“But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for
he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those
who diligently seek Him. ~ Hebrews 11:6
As I’ve been learning to walk by faith and
obedience in my relationship with God, my examples have been many of the people
in the Bible who exemplify what happens when we make a move of faith — God then
moves for us.
What do I mean by that? When we answer a
call to faith and step out and make a move to demonstrate our faith, then God
shows up.
And when He moves, He does the
supernatural.
In Joshua 6, Joshua and the Israelites
faithfully and obediently marched around the Jericho wall shouting and blowing
their trumpets, and the wall fell flat.
The wall that was wide enough for two
chariots to pass on its top fell flat. No one blew it up — they blew trumpets.
In 1 Samuel 17, David took a slingshot and
five stones, and God sent that first stone in a deadly hurl straight into
Goliath’s head.
David didn’t have a super bionic arm. He
had faith in an all-powerful God.
In Judges 7, God told Gideon to downsize
his army and gave him instructions on how to do so.
Gideon had obeyed God’s directive and
started with an army of thirty two thousand, but God said, tell the ones who
are afraid that they may leave, and the numbers quickly dropped to ten
thousand.
Then God said, that’s still too many, and
He dropped the numbers again to three hundred with a water-lapping test.
With these three hundred remaining men, the
battle was won — with trumpets, pitchers, and torches, not traditional weapons
of war!
These are only a few instances of many we
read in the Bible, but the lesson is clear in all of them.
Faith and obedience please God, and then
God moves for us!
A demonstration of faith will produce a
God-sized result, and a God-sized result is greater than anything we could do
on our own.
When we are facing monumental situations in our lives, these examples from scripture remind us to stand firm in our faith, walk diligently in obedience, and fully trust that God is going to move on our behalf.
By
Kathy Cheek
Kathy Cheek
As
an inspirational writer I love to write about building our relationship with
God, growing a strong faith walk, and living in the benefits of His abundant
love, mercy, and grace in our everyday life.
For
more than a decade I was a freelance writer in the Christian market for
multiple publishers of Christian resources and publications. I have
written two devotional books. First Breath of Morning: Where God
Waits for You Every Day and CLAY: Reflections on the Life God Is
Shaping in Us.
The
devotions in First Breath of Morning have an emphasis on building our
relationship with God through drawing near and getting to know Him and
strengthening our faith as we grow a deeper walk with Him.
The
devotions in CLAY reveal more vividly how our relationship with God
is lived out as we grow and are changed by Him through His work in our lives
and through our circumstances.
I
have also written a short eBook called The Hope Collection: Portraying the
Hope We Have in God, written for those who need a fresh dose of encouragement
for whatever you are struggling with today. The inspirational messages in these
40 devotions will lift you up and give you hope for tomorrow as they portray
the hope we have in God.
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