If anyone says they have no faith, that will not be true. Everyone lives by faith to a certain extent.....When you go to a doctor, you need faith to trust his diagnosis. When you eat at a restaurant, you trust that the people serving you have not contaminated or poisoned the food. Every day is a walk of faith on some level. Everyone believes in something. "God has dealt to each one a measure of faith"(Romans 12:3).
We choose what we believe in. Some people choose to believe in themselves, some in government, some in evil. some in science, some in the newspaper/news, some in hard work, some in other people and some in God. Faith is something we can't live without. Faith is something we can't die without either. Our faith determines what happens to us after we leave this world. If you have faith in Jesus, you know that your eternal future is secure. That's because "the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies thorough His Spirit who dwells in you" (Romans 8:11).
In other words, if the same Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He will raise you up as well. Having certainty about what happens to us when we die will greatly affect how we live today. Confidence in our eternal future gives us a perspective on living in the present that is laced with confidence as well. We all have times of doubt. Even Jesus wondered why God had forsaken Him. It wasn't that He doubted God's existence or ability to come to His rescue, He just didn't expect to feel forsaken.
Sometimes we don't doubt God's existence, or whatever He is able to help us, we just doubt His desire to have any immediate impact on our lives. Surely He is too busy for my problems, we think. But the truth is, He's not. Does your husband have times in doubt? If so, your prayers for him to have ever increasing faith will make a big difference in his life. Eve if he doesn't know the Lord, you can still pray for faith to rise in his heart and look for an improvement in his level of peace. There is nothing in your husband's life that can't be conquered or positively affected with an added measure of faith in God. Jesus said of any man who has faith to believe in Him, "out of his heart will flow rivers of living water" (John 7:38). That alone can b enough to wash away a lifetime of pain, trouble, fear, sorrow, apathy, hopelessness, failure and doubt.
PRAYER
Lord, I pray that You will give (husband's name) an added measure of faith today. Enlarge his ability to believe in You, Your Word, Your promises, Your ways, and Your power. Put a longing in His heart to talk with You and hear Your voice. Give him an understanding of what it means to bask in Your presence and not just ask for things. May he seek You, rely totally upon You, be led by You, put You first and acknowledge You in everything he does.
Lord, You've said that "faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God" (Romans 10:17). Feed his soul with Your Word so his faith grows big enough to believe that with You all things possible (Matthew 19:26). Give him unfaliing certainty that You've promised to do, You will do (Romans 4:21). Make his faith a shield of protection. Put it into action to move the mountains in his life. Your Word says, "the just shall live by faith" (Romans 1:17); I pray that he will live the kind of faith-filled life You've called us all to experience. May he know with complete certainty "how great is Your goodness, which You have laid up for those who fear You, which You have prepared for those who trust in You" (Psalm 31:19).
Amen.
SCRIPTURES FOR MEDITATION
James 1:6-8
But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
Romans 14:23
But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not eat from faith; for whatever is not from faith is sin.
Matthew 17:20
So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
Romans 5:1
Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
#inspired...ann #WiseQuotes
*Stomie Omartian, The Power of a Praying Wife(2006)
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