Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
- DAILY READING – Acts 13:1-25; Joshua 18-19; Job 29
In 2010, during the Haiti earthquake a Sixteen-year-old Darlene Etienne was pulled from the rubble of her cousin’s home after 15 days of being trapped. Darlene had been taking a shower when the earthquake hit and the walls collapsed around her, trapping her in a small space. She was entombed in crumbled concrete and twisted steel. In the wake of this earthquake that destroyed the sprawling city of Port-au-Prince, frantic family members and trained search teams had dug through the debris searching for survivors. But after two weeks they had largely given up hope of finding anyone else alive. Then on Jan. 27 — a staggering 15 days after the earthquake people heard Darlene’s faint voice, weakly calling for help through the debris. Soon, a French rescue team went to work digging her out before hundreds of stunned onlookers. Against all odds she survived in this tiny hole for 15 days. When the rescuers eventually brought her out, she was weak, but very much alive. It was a miracle. Medical experts said there was hardly any chance of her survival. Yet despite her injuries and the prospect of dehydration after so many days without water or food, she still made it. When asked how she was able to stay alive, she said she held on to her faith in God, she believed she would survive. Faith kept her alive even when the Haiti government had called off search and rescue 4 days earlier believing no one could still be alive under the rubble after so long.
Mark 9:23 ‘Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth’.
Indeed all things are possible when you have the faith to believe. In every tight situation, as long as you can focus on God there is always a way out. He is the God of miracles and with Him nothing shall be impossible. Even if it seems you are shut in, as long as you can keep your focus on God He will always create a way of escape.
What situation can be more desperate than that of the 3 Hebrew boys? They were already inside the fire, yet God appeared and carried out a rescue operation. Or what situation can be as hopeless as that of Lazarus, who had been in the grave for 4 days? But then, even in the grave, Jesus is still Lord. There is no problem, trouble, situation or circumstance facing you today that God cannot handle..
When we focus on the Word of God in the face of any challenge, our victory is sure. Our focus on The Word invokes the reality of God in our hearts.
And when God dominates your heart, you will talk and act like a man from another realm. When men talk impossibilities, you talk possibilities, because you know you serve the God to whom nothing is impossible.
The truth is that God is the only eternal reality. Other things are temporal. Problems only become real once the enemy is able to shift your focus from God, and get you to concentrate on them. And the law of concentration states that the more you think about something, the more it grows and becomes real in your mind. If you shift your focus from God’s Word and focus on problems, then those problems only grow bigger. What you focus on paints an inner picture in your heart. This is why we must keep our focus on Jesus.
Hebrew 12:2 says ‘Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
As long as we can focus on Jesus we will be delivered in the midst of life’s storms. it was only when Peter shifted his gaze from Jesus to look at the storm, that he began to sink. All the roaring of the storm was aimed at shifting his focus. Because the enemy is helpless against the end result, he fights the process by trying to shift your focus. Therefore in every situation keep your focus always upon Jesus. Keep looking to God’s Word. The more you focus on the Word, the more faith is imparted into your heart. And when you have faith, then you have the victory that overcomes the world.
PRAYER: Lord, I know with you nothing shall be impossible. Please help me to always focus on your Word so that I can possess the faith I need to achieve the impossible in Jesus Name.
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It is only when you can see God in the light of who He truly is that you can begin to walk in the overflow of His blessings.
– WORDBITE 222.