Faith: The Agreement That Who God says He Is, and Who He Actually Is, Are True.
Do you ever struggle with doubt? Do you know that if you ever find yourself in doubt, what is really happening is that you are allowing your will, rather than God's will to rule your heart? When we doubt we unknowingly position ourselves as judge to God's identity. God's identity is truth. All truth comes from Him. If there ever is any doubt it comes from elsewhere. We either choose to entertain doubt or we choose to repent and submit doubt to God's authority. By giving up our "right" to doubt God's goodness, we are acknowledging that God's truth inside of us is greater than ourselves. (Romans 3:4)
But if we do choose to allow ourselves to doubt, What we are really claiming is this, that what God says about Himself, from our perspective, just can't be true. This is a slipper path because we are unknowingly calling His identity false, and our doubts truth. In order to be released from this offense to God, we must come to Jesus and let him relive us from the burden of "our right to free will" — How we exercise our accumulated heritage of knowledge and understanding, according to our desires. We must submit our will that has allowed doubt into our life, by completely surrendering to Him. When we do this we are speaking the truth by saying that our will and our doubts are lies, and worthless, but God's identity and will for us is true. His will is that we do not worry about our future because He is our provider. (Matthew 6:25-34) Our identity then is not in ourselves but it is in Jesus,we are His, we belong to Him and His desire is for us. We are the ones God gave to Jesus as His heritage to bless. Nothing can separate us from God's love, not even doubt. (John 10:29 ) He acquired us by paying the cost of all our sins—dieing for us on on a cross. (John 17:24) But the power inside Him was greater than death. Jesus regenerated himself back to life. Instead of allowing doubt to have power over us, We let Jesus' power, the same power that rose Him from the dead, consume any and all doubt because the truth is that we are conquerors of death. (Romans 8:11)
We ask for God's forgiveness, if we have doubted the truth of His power that lives in us. So let us not subject ourselves to a doubting spirit. Instead let us hold God's words as truth. He is faithful to a thousand generations, and He loves and provides for us always and forever. We repent if we have doubted His identity with thoughts. We say yes to Jesus and no anything that denies who He is. We put our trust in God not fear or doutbs. We trust in His hope that floods our heart, the hope that that never disappoints, a hope that we are assured of in both times of peace and character building hard times. (Romans 5:5) Our faith, the agreement that what God says about Himself is true, claims that who God is, is much greater than ourselves an any doubt that may have lived within. (John 4:4) And because He is greater He heals us. He makes us whole. His perfect healing love never fails. (1Corinthians 13:8)
We don't use faith as a weapon to fight doubt. But rather, the gift of faith God gives to us in His grace, is simply agreeing that who God says He is, is true regardless of what we know or percieve in life. Jesus is King of kings and Lord of lords. We accept the truth of His identity and reject all lies about his identity. He is the only one worthy and pure to judge. He is all mighty and powerful. He is full of mercy and grace. And, He heal us by FAITH, the truth of who He really is and always will be. He loves us more that our own understanding. We thank Jesus, for this love and that he intercedes for us to the Father and sends angels that minister to us His truth even in a single moment of doubt. (John 14-19-21)