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 – Luke 23:26-56; Genesis 42; Psalm 33
During the 2010 Haiti earthquake, a sixteen-year-old girl, Darlene Etienne was taking a shower when the walls collapsed around her, trapping her in a small space. Against all odds, she survived in this tiny hole for 15 days. When rescuers eventually found her, she was weak, but very much alive. It was a miracle! Medical experts said there was hardly any chance of her survival. 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 under the rubble for 15 days without food or water, 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. Indeed faith can do the impossible.
It doesn’t matter what the situation may look like, 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 make a way of escape for you.
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 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 you focus on the Word of God in the face of any challenge, your victory is sure. Your focus on the Word invokes the reality of God in your heart. And when God dominates your heart, you will talk and act like a man from another realm. When men talk limitations and impossibilities, you talk possibilities, because you know with you is the one to whom nothing is impossible.
The truth is that God is the only eternal reality. Other things are temporal, the problems that seem to surround you are not real, they are optical illusions. 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, the more it becomes part of your reality. What you focus on paints an inner picture in your heart. And if you shift your focus from God’s Word and focus on problems, then those problems only grow bigger.
You must keep looking unto Jesus. The moment Peter shifted his gaze from Jesus to look at the storm, 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. But as long as you can focus on God via His Word, faith is imparted and your victory is assured. Because faith is 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 to achieve the impossible.
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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.
[ADAPTED FROM THE BOOK ESTABLISHED IN THE WORD OF GOD]