We see in scripture “Jesus looked at them and said to them, ‘With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26, NKJV) and “For with God nothing will be impossible” (Luke 1:37).
In short, faith always says, “God is enough!”
Yehovah makes men and women of faith by leading them into impossible situations. He wants to hear his servants say, “Father, you led me here, and you know best. So I’m going to stand still and believe you to do the impossible. I’ll put my life in your hands, fully trusting you.”
Our faith is not meant to get us out of a hard place or change our painful conditions. Rather, it is meant to reveal Yehovah God’s faithfulness to us in the midst of our dire situation. Yehovah does at times change our trying circumstances; but far more often, He doesn’t because He wants to change us.
We simply can’t trust Yehovah’s power completely until we experience it in our crises. This was the case with Daniel and his three friends. His friends saw the angel only when they were in the midst of the fiery furnace, and Daniel experienced Yehovah’s power and grace when he was thrust into the lions’ den. If they had suddenly been pulled out of their circumstances, they never would have known the full grace of Yehovah’s miracle-working power, and Yehovah would not have been magnified before the ungodly.
We think we’re witnessing great miracles whenever our God Yehovah ends our storms and crises, but we can easily miss the lesson of faith in such times.
That lesson is that Yehovah will remain faithful to us through our hard times. He wants to lift us above our trials through faith so that we will say, “My God can do the impossible. He’s a deliverer, and He’s going to see me through.
Written by By David Wilkerson (1931-2011) and edited by Bruce Lyon
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