Power of Faith That Transforms

Key Scripture:  “For we live by believing not by seeing”. II Corinthians 5:7 NLT

Power Point:

I was thinking about Abraham this morning and how God calls him the “father of our faith”. If you go back to Abraham’s story its easy to realize why God said that. There was an important principle that I think we need to glean from his life. God just appeared on the scene one day and said, “Abram, I want you to leave everything you’ve known all these years, everything you’ve expected to inherit from your father, and go out “somewhere”. What? Yes, “somewhere”.

God promises him that he will be blessed in measures so large that he can’t even begin to understand it. He is asked to leave everything “logical”, everything that has made sense to him for 75 years and go beyond his human reasoning and simply trust God. This is the nugget I have gleaned from this story.  Abraham is being asked to walk not by what he sees but by what God sees. Let me expand that: “We are asked to walk not by what we can see but by what God see for us.” 

In our world today, we are very conditioned to be logical, and make careful plans for the next step.  We’re totally focused on the “what is”. What if we turned that around and made careful plans for what God’s plans for us; those above and beyond plans that bring all of His goodness and all of His blessings into our present and into our future? The thing we need to understand is that God’s plans are frequently “illogical”. They don’t make sense to our worldly minds but they don’t have to make sense in our transformed minds. Those transformed minds are the one who sees God as good, and trusts that His will for them is good, and His plans for them are good, good, GOOD!

Beloved, we are not called to be normal. We are called to be “out of the box”, “out of this world” and the perfect example of “supernaturally normal”. The ones who see what God sees are living proof of His goodness to His children.

How about you? Are you ready to get out of your box and let Him out of that box? Aren’t you ready for “normal” to become more supernaturally normal so that each day is an experience with heaven on earth in your life.  Of course you are! Ask Holy Spirit to help you today to “see what God sees for your life.” Ask Him to reveal the steps you need to take to get from “normal” to supernaturally normal.  Abraham left everything that was “normal” and embraced what God offered him. Are you ready to do that too? Are you ready to see your life as God sees it? Are you ready to "go" and "do what He tells you to do", even if it's not logical? When you really know that God is good, you'll have your bags packed and be ready to go. Come ON! 

May your blessings come in bunches today!

Power Thought:

We are not called to walk by what we see but by what God sees for us. Got it? Then you’ve got faith that transforms.