“Believing God means assuming that He is always working even when our faith and prayers and love don’t seem to be working at all.”

A thought by Steven Furtick, (2014-02-11) from his book, Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others (Kindle Locations 3019-3020). The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)

That is very hard to do. You are going through it and you have prayed and prayed and you thought you were believing but you are not getting what you are expecting from God. And that can mess up your relationship with God and your belief that He really cares. I mean if He really cared about me He would do something. But “believing means assuming that He is always working” even when we don’t see it. That can be very hard to do.

Where do you get that kind of believing? Well experience is a good place to start. You can read the Bible and see the experiences of people there. You strive to put yourself in the story without knowing the end and you then read the end and see how God was working. That can build your faith.

You can also get it in your own past experiences if you have had years of walking with the Lord. Strive to remember other difficult times. Try to remember how you were feeling in those times and then remember how God was working out in your future and of how things turned out even when your faith and prayers and love didn’t seem to be working at all.

You can also get it in the experiences of other Christians. That is why it is so important keep other Christians close especially when you are tempted to be alone.

You see the Enemy wants you to be alone. He wants to be in control of your thought life. He wants to feed you the lies that says that God doesn’t care and He isn’t working. He’s off helping others who have more faith. He doesn’t want you to remember anything but the negative circumstances in your life. When he does that he has control.

He wants you to assume that God doesn’t care but God wants you to assume that He is always working even when it doesn’t seem like He is. “Believing God means assuming that He is always working even when our faith and prayers and love don’t seem to be working at all.”

So what are you going to assume to today?

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