Monday, January 4, 2010

GFT #11d - Final Thoughts - Believe Today

"According to your faith will it be done to you" Matt. 9:29

I thought I had written my last devotional on faith but something happened this morning that prompts me to add one more.

In fact, this devotional was born out of a misunderstanding with my wife. Let me explain. We built a house 5 years ago in a rural community in New Mexico. I was never real happy with the master bathroom shower because it never put out hot water only warm water. All I could figure was that the plumbing was flawed and I would be paying lots of money to get it fixed. Today, I finally decided to have a plumber come out and look at it. The moment I described the problem and showed him the shower knob, he laughed and said I was going to be shocked how simple the solution was. He ran out to his truck to get an allen wrench and a short time later it was putting out a nice full stream of hot water. It was so easy that he said he wasn’t going to charge for the fix.

My wife suggested that the long time it had taken me to get this problem fixed would be a good faith email. I had no clue what she was talking about. She explained that we had hot water available to that shower for 5 years but we weren’t experiencing it. She said all it took was asking the right person and in a matter of minutes he helped us to realize what had always been available to us. She said that God’s word promises us many things and we simply don’t act on it. We don’t believe it.

Matthew 6 – Jesus promises daily provision
James 5 – states what a sick person should do for healing
Luke 6 – promises God will give back generously to the one who gives

Take it from me…don’t wait 5 years to act on these precious promises. Thanks for allowing me to share with you from the wonderful word of God.

Selah,
Randy

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