faith now

Monday: Living in faith means that we live in the present: what God has spoken and revealed up to the minute.  As Jack Bauer would say, "...events happening in real time."  We can't change the past or control the future.  When we begin to live from hope (future), our heart can get sick (Proverbs 13:12).  

One way to ensure that we are walking and living in faith is to watch what we are saying.  What we say will effect what we believe.

We must continually release the words that God has spoken in full belief that His words are true, RIGHT NOW!!!  We cannot agree with the attacks of the enemy or the feelings of our own soul.  We can learn from David:

Why are you cast down, O my inner self? And why should you moan over me and be disquieted within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, my Help and my God. (Psalm 42:5 AMP)

See, David's inner self (soul) was cast down.  Translation: David was depressed.  He tells us why... he's been waiting.  We've all been there: waiting.  It's not fun.  It's not easy.  But when we let our mind, words and heart dwell on the waiting or hoping, we get sick.

But David speaks to his soul and requires his perspective to shift from the subject of his hope, to the object of it: God.  Then he takes it one step further and says that he will praise.  Why?  Because that's what he knew to do in the moment.  His faith led him to praise and away from hopelessness.  

Just like David, let's speak and act on what we know God has spoken.  Right now.