“Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you” – 1Peter 5:7
LIGHT FOR NOW: Your daily confessions are a revealer of the state of your heart whether you are in faith or fear.
As we consider casting our cares on the Lord, it’s important to also consider how to manage or handle unmet desires or expectations. Here, we’ll take a cue from the life of Abraham as documented in the scriptures. First, let’s consider how he and a host of others were described in the New Testament. Hebrews 11:1-3 “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear”. It is important to quickly state here that at no point should this text be applied as an omnibus definition of faith. This is because in its strictest sense, this text in Hebrews was a particular reference to Old Testament saints who hoped for the Messiah and believed it before it actually happened.
However, what we seek to learn from them in today’s study was how their world (different times or dispensation) were shaped by the word of God; that is, unlike some others in their generations, they were called men of faith because they held on to their expectation of the Messiah which couldn’t have made logical sense to some others then. While this refers to salvation, we can go further to see that Abraham yet exercised faith with respect to his child Isaac. He and Sarah had every reason to give up on the unmet expectation of a child, yet when he chose to align himself with God’s word (evident in his change of name from Abram or Abraham) and his expectations where met (Genesis 17). Hence, as a believer, a notable fact is that, despite life’s challenges, pressures or setbacks, we are overcomers and like Abraham, must keep our expectations intact and call the things that be not as though they were. Romans 4:17 “(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were”. Glory!
INSTRUCTION: Call those things that be not as though they were.
CONFESSION: I win all the time; I keep my expectations and call the things that be not as though they were, in Jesus Name, Amen
QUOTE: Your words express worry or faith.
DAILY BIBLE READING: MORNING: HEBREWS CHAPTER 10; EVENING: HEBREWS CHAPTER 11
LIGHT FROM THE WORD 