Trusting the Truth can be powerful

Well today marks the beginning of our 37th week of pregnancy. God willing lil' Payton will make her grand appearance sometime in the next 2 to 3 weeks. Funny, I always say "we are pregnant" or "our 37th week". There is no "we" or "our" in the physicality’s of being pregnant. My beautiful wife is shouldering the physical burden by herself. All I’m good for is a foot massage and I can run down to the frozen yogurt shop and pick up some treats. It is an amazing miracle this thing called pregnancy, and man is it physically demanding for the women. I am so blessed to have such a great wife who has been handling the load, metaphorically and physically. We are super excited for the little one to get here. It is now just a waiting and praying game now. The timing of all things is kept by the watch of the Father; all we get to do is abide by it.

Today in my Men's group we were very blessed and fortunate to have a special guest appearance by Steve Barger. Steve, a successful man in real estate, is also the Executive Director of Truefaced. It is an amazing ministry that teaches believers to realize who they really are in the eyes of Lord. I have attached the link to their site here on my page. Anyway he made a statement today that has been stuck in my head all morning. "To accept God's great gifts, you must first Trust in the Truth."

To me the “Trusting in the Truth” means making the decision to submit to God and to live by faith in him alone. He is the only one equipped to guide us along our crazy journey. Completely Trusting the Truth means we need to believe and have faith that the miracles in the Bible really happened. Unfortunately none of us were there that day Jesus fed 5000. We weren't in the boat when he casually awoke from a nap only to tell the wild storm to mellow out. And we certainly were not there the day he got hung on a cross. But that doesn't keep us from believing the Truth. One of the greatest and most powerful gifts God has given to us is the gift of faith. Blind, unfailing, and unwavering faith was handed down to us from our almighty Lord. It’s up to us to do with it what we may.

Faith is defined in Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

The two most important words in that verse are sure and certain. To have true faith you have to first and honestly answer this question. Are you sure God is who He says He is? If we can cross this hurdle together and say “yes, He is who He says He is” than we can move on to the second word. Are you certain that God will deliver on His promises? Now this is important because this is the stuff that you can’t always see. God has made many promises to you and me, and when they are fulfilled, we may not always get to see the fulfillment of them. Heck we may not even get to see the process of the promise materializing. That doesn’t matter though because all God wants us to do is have a pure faith in Him. You see living a truly faithful life requires us to take that crazy step into an area where we can’t see the ledge. Living by faith was portrayed perfectly in the Indiana Jones movie where Harrison Ford, in his search for the Holy Grail, had to make a leap of faith over an abyss. Remember that scene? Indy just leans forward knowing in his heart that God would provide a step. And He did, because Dr. Jones’ faith was pure.
Now do we come across giant caverns that we need to cross blind on a daily basis? Physically? No, not typically, but spiritually yes we do. God calls for us to awaken each morning with a new faithful spirit that He has given us, and charge out into the day led by our faith alone in Him. Do you know how powerful that faith can be?

Read Matthew 17:20

He replied, "Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you."

God says that even the smallest amount of faith in Him can move mountains! Imagine what unwavering faith in Him could do?

Faith trusts God to forgive us. Faith trusts God to make us holy. Faith trusts God to make us effective. Faith trusts God to never abandon us.
Faith is what the Spirit uses to light the fires within you. When the Holy Spirit gets to work inside of you, the Spirit causes an internal revolution. All of your life gets turned in God's direction -- thoughts, aspirations, behavioral standards, priorities, and such. It's not just about how you come to Christ, but how you live your life by way of Christ. The Spirit works overtime to lead us to be obedient. The Spirit does this through faith.

I borrowed that last part from http://www.spirithome.com/faith-sp.html I thought it was quite fitting to what I am chatting about.

Ultimately living by faith is what we are called to do. The only real way to achieve that is to Trust in his Truths. But just think of the possibilities of what living that life could be like. Amazing stuff huh?

There is an old saying that states you should never put all your eggs in one basket. I beg to differ and I'm no expert but it seems to me that God has constructed a pretty solid basket for us to put all of our eggs in. It just takes faith to Trust the Truth that He's got it covered.