Hello blog family! I truly hope you are all having a blessed week and have experienced "something heavenly" already today. Personally, I try to find any excuse to have an encounter with my Father on a daily basis. Sometimes it happens, and sometimes it gets pushed to the background. Sadly, life tends to interfere every now and then--but the great news is that He never changes!
Honestly, I can't believe I'm up at 10:30pm (CST) writing this. John and I got home from our Wednesday night group (church small group), put the children to bed, took showers, and were all cozy and on the edge of sleep when God pulled me out of bed and told me to go back downstairs and reboot the computer. Funny how He does that at crazy times huh. Anyway, I have had a lot on my plate already this week, and I think the point of dragging me out of bed was to remind me that I hadn't spent my quality time with Him today. Yes, I had gone to group and had a great time discussing "faith and the power of words" with fellow believers, but I hadn't had my 1-on-1 time. So, although I have a pretty clear idea as to where I want to go with this post, please forgive any ramblings.
Something caught my attention in group this evening--a passage from a handout we received from the group leader. Here is the passage:
"Some people try to operate the law of faith in their head--that is called mental assent, but faith works in the heart. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness. You can't believe with your head what you can't believe with your heart." -Charles Capps
I had sort of an "ah ha" moment when I read that. So that's the problem is it? I tend to try to put the faith thing into action in my mind. Yes, I have faith in my heart about things, but I admit it's been hard to pinpoint just why I've been struggling with faith in general. Gotta get it outa my head and keep it in my heart. Yes!
I think I've hammered the "faith thing" a lot lately, but it's what's been consuming all of my thoughts and time lately. I want a faith testimony that shakes the foundations of the worlds, both spiritual and physical. I want the devil to shreek everytime I wake up and my feet hit the ground--I want him to think, "great, SHE'S up again!" Isn't that what it's really all about?
In the teachings of Don Paul (www.prophet.tv), I heard something else that caught my attention. He was speaking about the way the devil/demons see us in the spiritual world. Most people (Christians and non-Christians) look like black blobs, wandering around doing daily activities--not really posing a threat. However, when a believer begins to take his/her authority in the spiritual realm and starts fighting back, they turn from black to white and are highly visible, thus becoming threats. Have you ever noticed that when you are walking in the light of a situation and beginning to REALLY fight, you seem to get hit over and over again with stuff that either hasn't bothered you in a long time, or that just comes out of nowhere? There you have it my friend. You have more than likely come up on the "demon radar" and are posing a threat. I like to let that mull around in my brain--to think that I'm coming up on their radar more and more is kind of fun. My thoughts go to, "let's see how hard I can hit them today!"
These two topics (faith and fighting) are intertwined, so to speak. When I begin having more and more faith that He is working in my life, I start to fight harder against the attacks. Something else I heard one time (and can't for the life of me think who said it)is this--when we get to heaven and finally get to see the devil, we are going to be so unimpressed with just how small he really is. We are going to think, "man, I can't believe THAT was what was giving me so much grief all the time." So true.
When I was a young girl, probably 7-8 years old, my parents gave me a necklace. It was gold and had a little glass heart. Inside the glass heart was a tiny mustard seed. Next to the heart was a little piece of gold--it was made to look like a piece of paper with writing on it. It said, "the faith of a mustard seed." I wore that thing around all the time, and I really wish I knew where it was now. For some reason, that little necklace comes to mind often. I remember thinking that I really had no idea what it meant, and that a mustard seed was a strange thing to put in a glass heart for a necklace. Nevertheless, I still wore it proudly. I also can't count how many times I have heard the scripture about the mustard seed:
"I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you."
Matthew 17:20
Now I truly understand what this passage means, and why it's so important to grasp this concept. God would never lie, so if He says that nothing will be impossible for me if I just have faith (in my heart), then I believe it!
So what are you believing for? I'm sure plenty of you have had the same questions, struggles, and concerns with faith that I have had. Bottom line---it's a heart matter. If you completely, totally, 100% give your heart over to Him and the things of His kingdom, nothing is impossible. I can't wait to see it happen!
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