And in a culture like this—how could I possibly believe in a God I can’t see. But we can’t do that. If you’re in ministry, you will constantly meet people who have stories like that to tell. Your Bounce Back Deserve An Extraordinary Praise, Kingdom Mindset Principles For Shifting You Into Success, Nugget of Wisdom | Your Blessing Is In Your Storm, 6 Powerful Prayer Mantras That Brings You Victory, Perseverance Is A Major Key To Your Success, Walking In The Supernatural || Faith That Move Mountains, Like what you read here?

We MUST press on victoriously to the end, knowing that God is on our side, He is our strength.

Seeing is not believing: just look at those who saw Jesus and did not believe. Jesus offers an incredible promise at the end of John’s gospel: “Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” (John 20:21). That is what I was praying for, but I didn’t know it was going to look like this!” That is the characteristic experience, both in the Jewish world we see in the Psalms and the prophets, and in the Christian world. It causes us to get into trouble and brings pain. Then quite suddenly, out of the blue, so it seems, God will do a new thing, and people say “Oh my goodness, that’s extraordinary. Must read: Can Bad Be Mistaken for Good When You’re Down Low? Politicians lie. And the same is true for faith. We are often the same. First, we need to dispel the myth that seeing is believing.

Christ leads and we must in obedience follow where He leads.

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In other words, when we are indwelt by the Holy Spirit, then somehow, God is praying within us for the pain around us. How did that happen?” The answer is: that’s what we’ve been waiting for and praying for, only we didn’t know it was going to look like that.

When we struggle to believe, we need to look to the bible and not to the heavens.

(Romans 10:17 emphasis mine).

The apostle John was well aware of this dilemma when he wrote his gospel. Most of us have grown up with materialism: the belief that nothing exists beyond the material world; that we live in a closed universe; that all reality is found within the four walls of the material realm and that anything outside of it is simply make-believe. Many heard Jesus’ words and still rejected him.

It’s been a long time now.”. Why? Hearing is believing.

Sometimes, it can even seem like He’s not involved at all. It sounds impossible. It isn’t and it never has been.

We are protected in our fight being equipped with the whole armor of God which include the [girdle of truth, breastplate of righteousness, shoes of the preparation of the gospel of peace, the shield of faith, helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God] (Ephesians 6:13-17).

Start Acting Like it Online. (John 7:16-17). And Jesus tells us: people don’t believe because they simply don’t want to believe. Carlos Whittaker: You Have to Want an Abundant Life Before You Can Live It, Yes, There Is a Spiritual Side to Having a Healthy Relationship With Food, Jon Acuff: Three Questions to Ask When You Hate Your Job. Has He forgotten to be gracious? This seems so foreign from our expectations and experience and yet Jesus says that it’s true. God says that “the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart” (Hebrews 4:12) because there is “no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account” (Hebrews 4:13).

But we’re also very different to Thomas. So true that giving up is not an option. Do we really believe that? I pray this is a blessing and an encouragement to you today. That remains a mystery.

But this raises a question. And He teaches us that real faith comes from hearing the word of Christ. When God tells us to wait, we don’t trust him, but go ahead and find ways to accomplish what we want to happen.

So true that giving up is not an option. If anyone chooses to do God’s will, he will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own. Wright about why it might seem that way, what we can learn when it feels like God isn’t answering prayers and how we should pray when a situation seems hopeless. What is the real reason why people don’t believe in God? God tells us plainly: Faith comes from hearing! Yvonne I. Wilson // April 22, 2015 at 7:15 am // Hello Pastor Ava. How can I believe when I can’t see? Because Thomas did get to see. "Oh, Lord, it's me again. But because Jesus testifies that their works are evil, they hate him. Today, it seems like we don’t see God directly intervening as much. He just sounds made up. Faith comes through hearing. You want to say, “I planted the seed, I want something to grow straight away, please.” But you have to wait through the winter.

It needs to be there.

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In John 4, we see a contrast between those who hear and those who see.

Scripture however reminds us that our journey through life as a Christian would be athletic and combative in nature.

The rich man descends into hell and pleads with Father Abraham to let him go back and warn his brothers, so that they will not end up there, Abraham replied, “They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.’ At least, that’s the narrative of the sexual revolution: religion is prudish, even oppressive, and ruins the sex lives of religious people. Regardless, we are compelled by reason, such as those given by our Commander in Chief, to enter the Christian race and fight the good fight of faith.

We look and we say, “Oh yeah, there’s God rescuing His people from Egypt.” Well, yes, that is dramatic and that happened, but then, in the Psalms, the poets are saying, “Has God forgotten us?

That’s why, in Romans 8, one of the crucial, most important chapters in the Bible, St. Paul says we don’t know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit groans within us with inarticulate groanings, and God listens to what the Spirit is saying. This is the air we breathe. In that period of waiting, it’s like when you sow a seed in the ground in the fall, in the autumn, and you want to be impatient. Not only does Jesus make it clear that you can believe without seeing, but that you are blessed if you do!

And so, John includes what Jesus says to Thomas after he believes: Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.

That girl is now in her mid 30s, she has been a missionary teacher in India, she’s a lovely Christian girl, because there were people around the world praying for her.

Here is someone who had his own challenges in life and one can only imagine what Thomas Edison himself was experiencing at the time when he said, “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”.



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