October 1, 2004
I Believe God!
In my most recent spiritual classroom, God has been teaching me about
believing Him. For me, right now anyway, that’s different than trusting
Him. Before I can begin to trust Him for something, I have to first
believe there is something there to trust!
As a result of my request, the church gathered and we believed and
prayed for my healing. We knew God was present and had moved among us that
night, but still the fullness of that healing was not realized. For
me, this was a real time of heart searching, questioning and crying out
to God for answers.
By one of those “Godsequences” that happen every so often, for the
month of August, as a church we were all supposed to be reading the book of
Romans (which had been selected last December!). Early in the book,
Paul talks about the faith of Abraham and how it was counted for him by
God as righteousness. Paul reminds us that when God told Abraham that
he would become the father of many nations, he was an old man and his
wife, Sarah, was barren. In spite of all of that, the Word says,
“Abraham believed God”! He didn’t believe his circumstances of old age and
barrenness, but rather he chose to believe the Word of the Living God.
Wow! Did that draw me up short! What was I going to believe? The
circumstances of the continuance of M.S. numbness, stumbling and a useless
hand, or was I going to believe the Word of God that says when someone
who is sick calls the elders to come and pray and they anoint and pray
believing, the “sick person will be made well?”
Well when stated like that, it was a no brainer! I decided if Abraham
could wait years for Isaac to be born as the fulfillment of God’s
promise, I could wait as long as He deemed necessary for the fullness of my
healing to be realized! My mantra became, “I believe God” whenever
whispers of doubt or questioning sound in my mind. Suddenly, not
stumbling or having the use of my hand ceased to be the measuring stick of
whether or not I had been healed. But rather, believing God and then
trusting Him to be faithful to His promise became all that was important.
Now, in a hundred different circumstances, the immediate response of my
heart to something is to declare, loud and clear, “I believe God!”
Will you join me in believing God for whatever He says – I mean REALLY
believe? Then together, let’s see what miracles God will do!
Until next time … love and prayers,
RuthAnn Gleason, the Parson's Wife
ragleason@sbcglobal.net
