Stagger not at the promises of God - Instead STAND!!!

On Wednesday of last week I watched the  Potter's House Bible Study via live-stream.

On this night Pastor Sheryl Brady was bringing the word.  She preached on Faith that Works.  I admit I never heard Pastor Brady preach - but I figured if T.D. Jakes allowed her in his pulpit she must be good ~ and I figured correctly.  Pastor Brady brought a powerful word from God ~ and laid it right at my feet. 

There were many powerful moments in Pastor Brady's sermon but the one thing in particular that stood out most was - STAND!  Stand flatfooted in your faith.

"You must stand flatfooted and say, 'God said it, I believe it.'  Everything you get from God will come BY FAITH."

 "God's promises are established and they will S-T-A-N-D!"

Pastor Brady used Abraham and Sarah as an example of a solid faith in the face of circumstances that did not line up with the promise given them.

 Romans 4:

18(Abraham) Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.  

19And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb:

20He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;  

21And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. 

Following are the more powerful points I was able to 'capture'.  Everything she said was powerful but I could not write fast enough to get it all down....

• If God is God enough to make a promise He is God enough to preform it.

• Faith is trusting the One who made the promise - even when common sense is not supporting it, when facts are not supporting it and when logic is not supporting it. 

• Faith is believing in spite of your circumstances.  Abraham did not put his faith in faith - he put his faith in God who made the promise.

• Abraham did not stagger in his belief - staggering is a sign you have lost your footing.  When the enemy begins to tell you lies - you become distrustful of the promise and God and you lose all confidence in God.

• Faith is not TRYING to believe, or willpower, or mind-power.  Faith is SEEING what is invisible!

Finally, she quoted my favorite verse - Numbers 23:19 -

 "God is not a man that He should lie nor a son of man that He should change His mind.  Does He speak and not act!?  Does He promise and not fulfill?"

I love that verse because it reminds me God is incapable of lying!  

God can never lie to me!!  If that does not encourage me to put my FAITH in the ONE who made the PROMISE! I don't know what will!!!