Faith, you either have it or you don’t.

We read or hear so many sermons about faith, but how often do we actually dwell on it until it has to do with our situation. If you think about it, our trust is based on earthly situations, we have trouble trusting God because of our interactions with people and how often they fail us here on this earthly realm. BUT that is what we have to realize. We have to stop putting God in this human box. He is endlessly more than that. If we hold God up to our standards of people, how can we ever have faith in him? Like scripture says, he is spotless, perfect, and NEVER FAILING. I think as sinners, we honestly cannot comprehend the word “never”. Just think about it. As humans, “never” is almost used as sarcasm or a joke. “Oh, I never do that.” So we can only compare never to how we experience it. But we have to stop putting God on the human level. He IS spotless and truly never failing. He will never ever ever fail you. 

So next, comes our faith. 

Do we have faith or do we doubt? My lifelong preacher, the wisest man I’ve ever known always said, “Faith. You either have it or you don’t.” That’s simple, right? To put all your faith in God? Nope! We are human, we can't help but doubt. We many times pray and pray and convince ourselves that we have given it to God and then turn right around and doubt everything we said we believed. Then we wonder why our prayers aren’t being answered. The Bible says in James 1:6, “But let him ask in faith, with NO doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.” What we can take out of this is the simple two letter word, “no”. “No” doubting doesn’t mean pray and give him 50% of it, it doesn’t even mean 99.99%, it means 100%. I can count endless times I battled with so many things and I would pray and doubt, pray and doubt, but when I finally got it in my head that this won't work unless I give everything I have to God and fully, 100%, put it all in his hands, things started to be answered. I can remember a month ago wanting something so bad, I was in my car and I said out loud, “okay God, no more. I am releasing this all to you right now. There is nothing more I can do” and the same night my prayers were completely answered. Now this doesn’t mean when you give it to God he has to answer right then. Through my whole life one thing that has always stuck with me is that our God is not a now God. Our prayers are going to be answered in his timing. That is part of the trusting process. You have to know that he will always do what is in your best interest. Never forget that what you may be going through, no matter how big or small, is all just as important to God. He does not want to see you fail. What you are going through is God giving you a testimony to be able to say, “this is what God did in my life.”  We are human and it is our nature to doubt and it is so easy to trust God when everything is going our way, but start losing faith as soon as something bad happens. We have to realize that in the hard times is when God needs us to let go and let him. We as humans can't simply handle things on our own. Submit to the one who created the heavens and the earth, every star in the sky, and most importantly he created YOU. 

Trust in the lord with ALL your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. Proverbs 3:5.