FAITH CAPSULE: Is doubt or procrastination playing any role in your life?

John 5:1-15

Doubt, procrastination are agent of delay and they are both rooted in pride. Both doubt and procrastination are not pattern which can be found in the life of those who heard and responded to the command of God by rising onto obedience immediately. Abraham at his very old age, with only Isaac as the promised child responded to God’s command with immediate effect. God commanded Abraham, “…take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.” (Genesis 22:2) It was a difficult command and Abraham could have reminded God that Isaac was the promise child. Abraham the faith practitioner asked no question neither does he doubt but responded, “So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he split the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.” (Genesis 22:3) Abraham responded early in the morning without any delay. It was a faith in for Abraham.
In the healing of the man at the Pool of Bethesda, faith in action prevailed. The sick man has been at the right track of his healing but remained trapped because he was waiting for someone to put him in the pool when the water is stirred up. As recorded in the Bible for thirty eight years there was no mobility because of infirmity. Infirmity allowed stagnation to reign in the life of the sick man. Are you experiencing stagnation in any area of life? No man is going to put you through but Jesus. He is here to give life and to give it more abundantly and you are here to receive the life He brought if you will rise. The sick man at the Pool of Bethesda had an encounter with Jesus. It is written, “Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.” And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked. And that day was the Sabbath.” (John 5:8-9) The sick man at the Pool of Bethesda heard the command, without procrastination or doubt he rose. The Bible made it clear that he rose immediately. An immediate response is the driving force that made his rising to be considered as faith in action. What sound of deliverance has been sounding in direction of your stagnation? Is doubt or procrastination playing any role in your life? If you will not delay your deliverance unto breakthrough you will have to rise in faith immediately.

Prayer for today: Ask God to deliver you from whatever is clouding your faith.