CHRISTMAS: GOD MOVED FIRST- BY GREG ELKAN
_But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his Son,_ – Gal 4:4
I know we say it all the time, but the Bible doesn’t really say that we can _move_ God by our Faith, does it? It does say that faith pleases Him (Heb 11:6), and our Lord was impressed when Gentiles exhibited it (Mt 8:10; 15:28), but to say that it _moves_ Him is misleading. The last time I checked, it was the _MOUNTAIN_ that faith was supposed to move, not God, (Mt 17:20; 21:21).
Stop thinking you’re going to _move_ God with your “audacious” faith. Before you ever thought of that prayer point, that miracle, that need… before you even got Born Again, God has already moved and provided it for you. That’s an implication of the Christmas Story: God was the first to move.
That big prayer request of yours may require bold and audacious faith to you, but it isn’t bold and audacious for God. Not just because He’s Almighty and can do anything; but because, well, He thought of it first. It’d be absurd if Adam was trying to use faith to make God give him a wife, when it was God that noticed he needed one.
Beloved, whether it’s a baby or a business, your marriage or your ministry, etc. know that we’re not trying to get anything from God, He’s the one offering His gifts to us.
Even the faith for the miracle is a gift from Him. When we stop seeing our faith as a way to make God do something, and instead see it as a key given to us by Him with which we can access all of His graciously-provided bounties, we’ll stop trying to move Him and move the mountains instead.
“If God didn't hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn't gladly and freely do for us?” – Rom 8:32 (MSG)
May the blessings of God be upon you and yours this Christmas, and always.
AMEN.
More Blessings await you today; you’ll not miss them in Jesus’ Name.
GREG ELKAN
- Nigeria.
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