God Has Said!

Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? -Isaiah 53:1

Jesus said, “All things are possible to him that believes” (Mark 9:23). The only qualification He gave us is that we must believe. So often that’s the hard part for most of us. We say, “Lord, why did You make it so hard? Dear God, it’s hard to believe.”

Believing is the product, or the offspring, of God’s Word planted in the human heart. Our problem hasn’t been our lack of ability to believe; it has been not knowing what to believe. Believing has always seemed like an abstract, intangible mystery.

Someone says, “Man, I’m trying to believe God.

“What are you trying to believe?”

“I’m trying to believe God!”

But God gets a little more specific. He asks, “Who has believed our report?” In any given situation, we need to find out what God is saying and believe His report.

In the Garden of Eden, God told Adam, “…but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die (Gen. 2:17). Later the serpent beguiled Eve, saying, “You shall not surely die” (Gen. 3:4). Now Eve had two reports. She’d never had this choice before—and she chose to believe the serpent’s report!

When the Israelites were approaching the Promised Land, they sent in twelve spies. Joshua and Caleb returned and said, “Oh, yeah, it’s just as God said, and we’re well able to take it. Let’s go do it!” But the other ten came back and said, “No way! We can’t do it!

In any situation in our lives, we have a choice. We can either believe what it looks like, seems like or feels like, or we can believe what God says. The serpent asked Eve, “Yea, has God said?” (Gen. 3:1). Yes, He has. God has said something about every situation we’ll ever run into. Let’s look the problem straight in the face and say, “God has said!” If we want His power revealed in our lives, let’s believe His report!

CONFESSION:

God said that by Jesus’ stripes, I was healed. I choose to believe God’s report. I fully expect His healing power to be revealed in my life!

From: A Devotional for Divine Health Prescription for a Miracle, Mark Brazee, 1999