"He humbled you and tet you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 8:3

"Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." 2 Cor. 3:17 How To Believe "Let not your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me." (John 14:1) How can you protect your heart from being troubled? By believing in the Lord Jesus Christ. But how do you believe? You can accept the Bible as being true but what do you do when there is doubt? How do you eradicate doubt to protect your heart from being troubled? You believe but you also have unbelief. ". . . If any man is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, 'From his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water." (John 7:37,38) To believe is to drink from Jesus and to have drunk so much of His word and to meditate on it that when Satan tries to trouble our heart we resist him the same way Jesus did by quoting the word. We would be able to do this because we have spent so much time with it. Take time to believe Jesus' words. I had always felt that belief would result in God giving us a river of water flowing from us. But I didn't understand the process of belief. To believe is to set your mind on something and to do this causes us to give that out. In other words we talk about what we believe in. That which is important to us is what will flow from us. The more we meditate the more we memorize the more that we study the more that we live, the more that we pray the word of God, the more the river of living water will flow from us. This is not a doctrinal definition but I think you can use it as an experiential definition. Believing entails meditating on the God's word waiting trusting God to come through for you in what He has promised. Belief in Jesus allows us to spend time with Him. To rest in the promise of His word and listen to the still small voice that guides our steps. Belief can wait, trusting God to direct. King David waited for God to give him the kingdom after it was promised to him. He did not take it by force because God had promised to give it to him. David did not lift his hand against the Lord's anointed. In the process of waiting there is doubt and discouragement. What gives us the staying power? Our trust in Jesus will overcome doubt as we have a relationship with Him and experience His love. Second the life creating action of the word of God. God's word is not just history or ideas that were written down years ago. They give life today as we hear them by the Spirit. Col. 3:16 Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you. Rom. 10:17 Faith comes by hearing the word of God. Acts 20:32 "And now I commend you to 'God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified." Richly abide in the word of God's grace and trust Him for life giving strength. Fight doubt by the precious word of God, belief will flow from our inner being. Look to Jesus and not our circumstances or the threat of disaster. Thank you Jesus, for I live not by my might or by the many physical comforts but by your every word that you speak. Matthew 4:4 - - -Scott McCrae Home | Back to Top

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