Faith Capsule: Identify with the word of God to make up your world.
Hebrews 11:1-16
It is written, “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.” (Hebrews 11:11) Without doubt, receiving and possessing the promises in the word of God is in having faith. What we receive is determined by what we believe. Also, what we believe determines what we become. At an old age, when it was impossible to have a child, Sarah did not doubt but received the promise that she would have a child. The word she received gave her the strength to conceive. The strength to do the impossible is through faith in the word of God.
After the death of Moses, Joshua the new leader was set to engage unknown terrain. God spoke to him, “Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore, arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them—the children of Israel. Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses. From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the River Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your territory. No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you nor forsake you.” (Joshua 1:2-5) Through the journey of life to the time of Joshua’s death, his walk testified that he received the word by walking the word of God. It was his conviction in the word he received that made him to conclude in life stating, “…But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” (Joshua 24:15)
The secret behind receiving and making the word of God to manifest is in being simple at heart. Psalm 119:130 encourages us by stating, “The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.” Understanding that God is light is only for those who are simple and able to receive the word and hope in the word. The simple at heart are none other than those who believe. Proverbs 14:15 reveals, “The simple believe every word…” Do you believe enough to allow the word of God to shine and terminate every agent of fear in your heart? The Bible records that Sarah judged God who had promised her to be faithful (Hebrew 11:11) that is she settled in her heart that God would perform it. Sarah heard the word, she mixed it with faith, it strengthened her and she was strengthened. It is faith that will make a believer identify with the word of God.
Prayer for today: Ask God to bestow on you the grace to receive and hold on to His word.