Faith Believes Even if it Seems Impossible
ICS Daily Devotions
Hebrews 11:11-12 (NKJV) By faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised. Therefore, from one man, and him as good as dead, were born as many as the stars of the sky in multitude—innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.
The greatest challenge to having faith is to believe without seeing it with our physical eyes. There is always a process between getting a Word from God, working on the call, and staying in faith thereafter. This is the actual test of our faith because we will give up if our faith is only a mental assent, but we will hold onto the promise if it is a conviction in our hearts that God has given us.
Believing and having faith is possible because God has spoken to us personally. There will always be a fight between the Word of God you have received and the situation in front of you which seems contrary to the promise. The key to faith is always choosing to believe and anchoring your faith in your God-given promise rather than the circumstances. We need to see with the eyes of faith that it is done in the spirit realm, though it will take time to manifest itself in the natural realm.
Abraham and Sarah faced impossible situations when God spoke to them about their lives and calling. Abraham would become the father of many nations, and his descendants would be like the stars in the sky, but his body was an old man’s body, which in the natural was as good as dead, whereas Sarah had passed childbearing age. These were facts, and it would be foolish and presumptuous to believe that they could still reproduce at such an age if it were not a promise from God!
The key is that God has spoken, and Sarah considered God faithful to the promise. Eventually, God’s promise came to pass in Abraham’s life and calling. That is why, to be in faith, we must always receive a personal promise from God and not be foolish and presumptuous in launching into something if we have not been promised God’s blessing.
While we do not deny facts and figures, faith must not allow natural circumstances to affect us. Everything in Abraham and Sarah’s circumstances was feeding them doubts and unbelief, and they were faced with a choice to either believe God’s Word or give up on God’s promise and accept the facts.
Faith is anchored in the promised Word of God—The Word that God has spoken to you personally. God specialises in making the impossible situation possible, but the most important thing is that He has spoken to you. Thereafter, it is a walk of faith.
Sermon Series: Growing Your Faith in God
