How big is your faith?

Good Morning Family!  Yesterday was singlehandedly, one of the best days to come of my life.  Something so awesome happened to me that I hope to be able to share with you one day.  I can however say this, it was definitely a faith grower.  So let me encourage you, trust Him.  Whatever you are believing God for, no matter how big or small, God can do it!!!!!  I'm telling you not what I've heard but what I know.  Oh I wish I could share, but it's not time yet!  It is only a sign of things to come.  God's favor is real. 

We have all heard the verse in the song, Be Encouraged that states, "trials are just a test of your faith".  Well in the last week God has revealed to me they are not just to test your faith but to grow it.  In the same way that you learn a subject in school and are tested on your knowledge of it, the results of the test are a evidence of your growth in the subject matter.  So if the trial you are going through now is concerning your money, get ready for a sure enough (as my high school English teacher would say) miracle.  God needs to teach you how to handle a little bit of money so when he blesses you to become a millionaire, you will know how to use it to glorify Him.  If you were living in what you thought to be your dream home, and for some reason or another God is allowing it to be removed from your life.  Get ready!  God is about to make you the owner of many homes.

God has been revealing through scripture to me, that every miracle He preformed throughout the Bible was a result of the magnitude of faith the person or the people connected to them, had in Him.  When He restored sight to the blind man in John 9, Jesus took his spit and mixed it with the dirt, smeared it across the man's eyes and told the man to wash it off in the pool of  Siloam.  The man had enough faith to follow His instruction, so His sight was restored.  In John 11, before Lazarus was raised from the dead, He went to see Martha and Mary and in vs. 26-27 the one who brings people back to life, and I am life itself. Those who believe in me will live even if they die.  Everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe that?” Martha said to him, “Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who was expected to come into the world.”  As a result of their faith, their brother was raised from the dead.

If the blind man could trust God to restore His sight, with spit, dirt, and washing it off with water, why can't you be still and know God will work it out.  If Mary and Martha could trust God to raise their brother Lazarus from the dead after being dead 4 DAYS!!!!!!  Why can't you trust God for healing in your body?  Let me share this verse with you, if you are believing God for healing in your body, I dare you to stand on this verse.  John 11:4 His(my) sickness won’t result in death. Instead, this sickness will bring glory to God so that the Son of God will receive glory through it.  I dare you to watch God use you to show His power.  I know that God is a healer.  I trust Him and believe that He will deliver you.  What the devil meant to harm you, God is going to turn it around for your good. 

Two days after Jesus was given the news that Lazarus was sick and He needed to come right away, He decided it was time to go and see Lazarus.  He told the disciples, Lazarus is sleeping and I need to go wake him.  The disciples didn't understand, He explained to them that Lazarus had died.  At that moment God said something that put it all in perspective for me.  In vs. 15 I’m glad that I wasn’t there so that you can grow in faith. God i saying if I always jumped when you said jump, you would never believe for anything bigger or better.  I need to allow a little more suffering so you will understand.  I need to allow a little more discomfort so you will believe that I will deliver you at any point no matter how far gone it seems, I can deliver.

Father God,  we come to you today asking you to increase our faith.  We know you are a God of abundance and your word says in 2 Cor 9:8 that when you bless us you are going to bless us with more than enough so we can bless someone else.  Father we declare and decree that we are the lenders not the borrowers in Jesus name.  Thank you Lord that we are above and not beneath, the head and not the tail.  In Jesus name.  We bless your name today Father for those of us believing for healing in our bodies today Lord if it is for us or we are standing in the gap for someone today.  We ask God that you honor your word and use our situtaions to glorify you God.  As your word says, in John 9, use us to show what you can do!  In Jesus name we pray, Amen.

Allow me to leave you with this scripture, Isaiah 55:8-9 "My thoughts are not your thoughts,
and my ways are not your ways,” declares the Lord. “Just as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts are higher than your thoughts.”  You may think that you have the solution all figured out.  It seems so obvious to you.  I challenge you today to lay that situation before God, and leave it there.  I know it's hard, but I'm telling you what I know.  God will handle it.  When you leave it up to God it's going to be worked out beyond your wildest dream.  Dream BIG today family and remember the above scripture.  God thinks even bigger than your BIGGEST dream.  So as you walk into your purpose expect greatness because the God we serve is a GREAT GOD!!!!

Do not forget to show kindness to strangers, for by doing so some have shown kindness to angels without knowing it...Hebrews 13:2