Thursday 2.17.11

Wake Up:
5:30 am

Daily Reading:
Proverbs 17
Isaiah 44-45

Devotion:
Streams in the Desert
The land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel (Joshua 1:2)

As faith continues to speak, God continues to give. He meets you today in the present and tests your faith. As long as you are waiting, hoping, or looking, you are not believing. You may have hope or an earnest desire, but that is not faith, for "faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see." (Heb 11:1) The command regarding prayer is: "Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours." (Mark 11:24)

True faith relies on God and believes before seeing. Naturally, we want some evidence that our petition is granted before we believe, but when we live by faith, we need no evidence other that God's word. He has spoken, and in harmony with our faith it will be done. We will see because we have believed, and true faith sustains us in the most trying of times, even when everything around us seems to contradict God's Word.

The psalmist said, "I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the livin." (Ps 27:13) He had not yet seen the Lord's answer to his prayers, but he was confident he would see, and his confidence sustained him.

Faith that believes it will see, will keep us from becoming discouraged. We will laugh at seemingly impossible situations while we watch with delight to see how God is going to open a path through our Red Sea. It is in these places of severe testing, with no human way our of our difficulty, that our faith grows and is stengthened.

Dear troubled one, have you been waiting for God to work during the long nights and weary days, fearing that you have been forgotten? Lift up your head and begin praising Him right now for the deliverance that is on its way to you.

Workout: Sealfit WOD: Rest and Recovery

Had every intention of doing an active recovery day today with some PT work and a ruck, but went to the pub instead. So I will chalk this as my rest day this week and do an active recovery day on Sunday.