Your Circumstances and Faith (Daily Devotional)

Hello and welcome back to Living Supernaturally, so good to meet you here and look into the word of God together. We have been meditating on how we can appropriate what has been freely given to us and the key to that is faith. We’ve been looking at the way Abraham believed in God and there is so much that we can learn and apply in our own lives. We are looking today at Romans chapter 4, verse 19, and this is what it talks about the manner in which he believed. He believed and didn’t look at the circumstances. He believed despite the circumstances. He didn’t allow the circumstances to influence his faith rather his faith influenced the circumstances. Romans chapter 4, verse 19, ‘And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.’ So, that was the circumstance, he was already old, he didn’t consider his own body nor the fact that Sarah, his wife was barren. He didn’t consider the circumstances. Well, the thing is this, he didn’t allow the fact of the natural circumstance to restrain him from exercising faith. Well, the facts are there plain to see. What are the facts? The fact was this is the circumstance. So, in your own life, there could be facts speaking very loud and clear. To believe in God doesn’t mean we ignore the facts. We consider the facts and say, yes, I know what these facts are, this is what it is, this is my situation and circumstance but we go beyond the fact to look and to lean on what the Lord says. So, that is what he did, he didn’t consider the fact that his body was dead and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. We also see that when we don’t consider the situation or the circumstance, we also give attention to something else intently and that is the word of God. Proverbs chapter 4, verse 20 onwards says, ‘My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings.’ What does it mean to incline? To lean away from something else, the facts of the circumstance. We acknowledge it but we lean towards the words of God. It says to incline your ear to my saying. Verse 22 says, ‘For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.’ This is what we can do, lean away from the voice of fear, doubt, unbelief and to fill our ears, eyes and heart with the words of God, the sayings of God and the truth of God’s word. So, we meditate on God’s word, we confess the word of God and we fill our heart with the word of God. We lean not in our own understanding; we lean towards God. Thirdly, we can confess and speak faith, confess the word which is put in our heart, declare that over the circumstance. In this manner when we believe, we believe the way in which Abraham believed and so we appropriate or receive what has been freely given to us in Christ Jesus. Shall we pray, Father, today we look at the circumstance and the facts but we go beyond it. Even in our own lives, whatever be the circumstances stating loud and clear, the impossibility of certain things happening/ manifesting in our lives, we look at the facts but yet we incline towards you Lord and your sayings. We inline our hearts and ears to receive from you, to hear what you have to say and we give that priority in our lives. When we choose to do this, we know that we will receive what has already been given to us freely in Christ Jesus by grace through faith, Amen.

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