II Chron. 20:20 Early the next morning the army of Judah went
out into the wilderness of Tekoa. On the
way Jehoshaphat stopped and said, “Listen to me, all you people of Judah and
Jerusalem! Believe in the LORD your God,
and you will be able to stand firm.
Believe in his prophets, and you will succeed.”
The key to all spiritual success is to do
simply what Jehoshaphat told his people to do, “Believe in the Lord your
God.” Believing enables us to
stand. God sends us people with His
message for our heart; believe them. Success is given to those who will but
believe.
The issue before us today is belief. Do we really believe in the Lord our
God? There is a difference between
believing about God and believing God.
Believing God means that we accept what God says about himself, all of
it. It means we take seriously what God
says. It means we acknowledge that God
is worthy of not only our worship, but our allegiance. It means that our highest calling in life is
to yield to Him. It means that we don’t
pick and choose what we want to live and do from what He says. Every word that comes from God is true and
commands our attention and doing.
Can you honestly say today that you
believe God? Do you really believe that
God is to be believed and obeyed? Are
you striving to not sin, to live a holy life?
Are you concerned about sin as you should be? Are you taking what you believe into the
world and striving to be the salt and light He commands us to be?
Believing enables us to stand. When we don’t believe as we should, we
stumble around and fall. There is no
stability in the lives of those who don’t believe in their heart what the Lord
reveals in the head. Success comes to
those who believe without wavering.
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