TEXT: ROMANS 10:17
“So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God”
The thoughts of failure and disappointments have been the major reasons many people have not been able to walk by faith. The thoughts like “what if I fail, what if it does not work out” Now, anyone that allows thoughts like these in his/her mind will never walk by faith. Thoughts like these increase your fear and decrease faith. And you know, you cannot walk by fear and walk by faith at the same time, so in order to walk by faith, you must be ready to kill your fear and for you to kill your fear, you must feed your faith. When your faith is fed, your fear will die.
This is the point that today’s text is saying “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God”. This means faith will keep increasing when we keep hearing and hearing the word of God. It also means fear will keep decreasing when you keep hearing and hearing the word of God. If you have been having problems taking the steps of faith, it simply means you have been feeding your fear instead of your faith. You have been listening to those who are negative.
That was the problem of the Israelites in Deuteronomy 1:28 “Where can we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our hearts, saying, “The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there”. The God who delivered them from Egypt had asked them to go forward to Canaan, the land that was flowing with milk and honey, but they could not because they were afraid. And this fear came as a result of what their brethren were telling them daily.
However, for their fear to die, Moses had to feed their faith. In Deuteronomy 1:29-32 Moses said “Then I said to you, ‘Do not be terrified, or afraid of them. The Lord your God, who goes before you, He will fight for you, according to all He did for you in Egypt before your eyes, and in the wilderness where you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place’. Moses also kept telling them this and their fear left. This is simple, stop listening to negative news or going to people that discourage you. Instead, keep listening to the word of God and the people who will encourage you, by that, your fear will die.
Confession
Father, as I feed my faith I see my fear die in Jesus’ name.
Daily Bible Reading: JEREMIAH 41, PROVERBS 7, 2 CORINTHIANS 9, DEUTERONOMY 5
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