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Casting Unbelief Out Of Your Life

Pastor Floyd's second message in the series "Believing God For The Impossible

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We are talking for 3 weeks together about believing God for the impossible.  Last week we talked about something very important in relationship to that, and that is seeing where God wants us to go.  Today we’re going to be talking about another element of this entire journey and venture of believing God for the impossible and that is “Casting Unbelief Out of Your Life.”  If we cannot cast unbelief out of our life then it’s going to be very difficult to believe God to do something that we really want Him to do.

Next week please don’t miss because I’m going to be talking about taking ground away from the enemy.  It will be a very important message in relationship to our subject.  We have been using as an example the children of Israel leaving Egypt.  They’ve been our story line, Moses, the leader, and then the children of Israel wondering around the wilderness some 40 years before God let them go into the Promised Land.

I’m going to be talking this morning out Deuteronomy chapter 1, Hebrews chapter 3, and I’m also going to be talking out of the 13th chapter of the gospel of Matthew.

This morning what I’m going to do is that I want you to listen even while you’re turning your Bibles to the 5th book of the Bible called Deuteronomy.  It is the final book of what we call the Pentitude, the first 5 books of the Bible.  I want to tell you a story.  The president of Fuller Theological Seminary was in a meeting with some high-level religious leaders listening to an Ethicist from Princeton talking about peace making in the nuclear age.  This is Ethicist, his name is Paul Ramsey, and he kept saying over and over and over again to this religious group of leaders that the number 2 problem in the human race, the number 2 element that threatens the human race is the arms race in our generation.

After saying that several times a man who was a Bishop with a little more liberal tint in his theological framework stood and he asked the question, he said, “Dr. Ramsey you have said over and over again that the number 2 problem is the arms race, but you’ve never said what number 1 is and I’m very curious about what you think is the number 1 threat to the human race?”  The Princeton Ethicist replied, “Unbelief.”  He said that unbelief is the greatest threat to the human race.

There’s a statement that I want to make about unbelief that I really believe is true.  Unbelief is the oldest spiritual disease in human history.  You take all of the diseases of human history, unbelief if the oldest of the all.  Let me give you an example, Adam and Eve.  God told Adam and Eve don’t eat from the tree, if you do, you will die.  Satan came along and Satan told Adam and Eve, “You can eat from the tree and you will not die.”  Who did they believe?  Why did Adam and Eve, God’s first human creations, determine to believe Satan rather than believe God?  Simple answer: they chose not to believe what God said.

Fast forward a few years and you find Noah.  God told Noah, “Noah you better get ready.  I’m going to flood the world.  I’m sick and tired of it.  Sin and wickedness are abounding.  I’m going to judge the world and start all over again.”  And He told Noah to build a boat.  And He told Noah to get as many people on the boat as he could possibly get.  So for 120 years Noah preached.  The only converts he had were the members of his own family.  I’m not sure why they went.  Perhaps they were under the authority of Noah, but they went by faith on the boat and God preserved them.  What happened to everyone else?  They perished.  Question?  Why did they not choose to believe Noah and God?  Answer: They did not believe what God said.

Have you ever asked yourself why unbelief exists?  You see unbelief occurs in our life when we do not believe God is who He says He is, and that God will do what He says He will do.  We do not believe God is who He says He is, and then notice this second part, and will do what He says He will do.

Listen, you cannot trust what people tell you, but you can always trust what God tells you.  God does not have the capacity to lie.  But why don’t we believe?  Why are we like the children of Israel?  Why are we like Adam and Eve?  Why are we like the people in Noah’s day?  I’ll tell you why today, we chose not to believe what God says because we’re skeptical and we’re self-sufficient.  We’re skeptical.  Our generation is filled with skeptics.  Skepticism and cynicism rule the day in American life.

But not only is it that, not only is it the suspicion that is cast upon what God says, but it’s also the element of self-sufficiency.  I mean we are really into ourselves.  We are really into believing ourselves and who we are, and believing in ourselves that we don’t at times really feel a need to believe God.  That’s tragic.

There are

1.         Three Scripture highlights that I want to give to you this morning about casting unbelief out of your life.  One is found in Deuteronomy chapter 1.  One is also found in Hebrews 3, and another is found in the 13th chapter of the book of Matthew.

Let’s begin with chapter 1 of Deuteronomy in verse number 32.  The Scripture says these words, “Yet in spite of this word you did not believe the Lord your God.” What word is he referring to?  In spite of this word, you did not believe the Lord your God.  What is he talking about here?  He is reflecting on the events that are recorded in the 14th chapter of the book of Numbers, the book of Numbers.  And in chapter 14 of Numbers, you find the story of how the people rebelled against the will of God of going into the Promised Land.

I want to just highlight a few things out of chapter 14 of Numbers.  The Bible says, “The people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron.” That’s verse 2Verse 4 says, “Let us chose another leader.” In other words, let’s get rid of Moses.  We want somebody new!  And notice what they said, “We want to go back to Egypt.” They hated Egypt!  But they wanted to go back to Egypt.  They were told in verse 9, “Don’t rebel against the Lord.” They were told that their protection is removed from them and the Lord is with us, so you don’t need to fear.  Look at verse 11.  “How long will they not believe in Me in spite of all the signs that I have done among them?” God said look at everything I’ve done for you.  You’ve seen all the plagues.  You’ve seen Me lead you by day with a cloud.  You’ve seen Me lead you with a pillar of fire of night.  You have seen the hand of God supply all of your needs.  You have seen God do some amazing things, yet you don’t believe Me.  Why don’t you believe Me?

Moses began to pray because God was ticked off.  Moses interceded on behalf of the people like any spiritual leader would, begging God to forgive the people, begging God to give the people one more chance.  Then notice what happens in verse 22.  “None of you men are going to see my glory, and the signs that I did in Egypt.” You have seen it and now you’re not going to see it in the wilderness any longer.  You’ve put me to the test way too many times.  In fact, He said, you’ve put me to the test 10 times over.  And you still don’t obey My voice.  And I’m not going to let you into the Promised Land, but I am going to let Caleb and Josh because those 2 guys have a, listen to what the Scripture says, “a different kind of spirit than you.”  On one hand you had a whole nation of unbelief; on the other hand you had 2 godly men who were willing to just believe what God said.

Look at verse 27.  He said, “All of you are grumbling against Me,” this is God speaking; the people thought they were grumbling against Moses and Aaron, but God said no you’re grumbling against Me.  Look at verse 27 at the last of it.  “You grumble against Me.” Look at verse 29.  “You grumbled against Me and because you grumbled against Me not one of you will enter into the Promised Land.”

Then He says in verse 33, “You will suffer for your faithlessness until the last of your dead bodies lie in the wilderness.” Wow.  I wonder what the Lord thinks of all that?  Huh?  He’s speaking pretty powerfully, isn’t He?  And then He said, “You congregation, you grumbled against Him by bringing up a bad report of the land, and yet, the land wasn’t bad, but 10 of you believed it was bad, everybody voted and they voted not to go.  You’ve got 2 guys that said we’re going to trust God, those 2 are going in and the rest of you I’m going to kill you.”  That’s what God said.

I know you have a hard time fitting that into your love of God mentality, but I’ll let you worry about that on your own.  I’m just telling you God had all He was going to put up with because unbelief just really ticks God off.  It just really irritates Him.  You say how do you know that?  Because the Bible said it. The Bible’s very clear that even though they saw God’s work, they still did not believe God.

Look over in Hebrews chapter 3, verse 19Hebrews chapter 3, verse 19 he says, “So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.” This is going back to the very same story from a New Testament perspective; looking back and saying look at their lives.  Look and see what God had done.  God willed them to go into the Promised Land, but they did not go, and why did they not get to go?  Unbelief.

The Bible even says here that they hardened their heart where they could not any longer really respond to God in an effective way.  And then I’m reminded of a third passage of Scripture over in the 13th chapter of the book of Matthew.  Jesus was in Nazareth, His hometown.  He had just stated how they dishonored Him in His hometown.  They would not bring honor to the prophet.  But then if you will notice in Matthew 13:58 He said these words, “And He did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.”

What’s that mean?  This does not mean that Jesus could not do mighty works there.  Jesus can do whatever He wants to do when He wants to do it, whether you have belief about it or not!  He’s God.  But what does this mean?  This means that He chose not to display mighty works of God because of their unbelief.  He chose not to waste His sacred energy, if you may, on an obstinate, and unbelieving people.  Therefore, you have a people in Nazareth who were not beneficiaries of the grace that God wanted to display among them all because of unbelief.

When you put all that down, and you understand that biblically, and I went through that pretty fast, but there is biblical takeaway.  I call it the #1 biblical takeaway from today.  And if you don’t get this, you’ve got to get this.  If you can’t handle anything else, get this, and take this home with you.  Unbelief is a serious and grave sin. That’s what the Bible says.  I mean it is, it is a serious and a grave sin.  Do not take lightly when you don’t do what God says to do.  Do not act like it’s really not that big of a deal.

Many of us we’re like Adam and Eve.  Do you know what Adam and Eve did?  They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and they believed the lie.  And that’s what we do when we operate with unbelief.  We take a truth of God, and we exchange it for an untruth, and we chose to believe in the untruth.  Are you with me?  That’s kind of interesting, isn’t it?  Poor commentary but it is reality.

Let’s talk about another item today which is the:

2.         Seven Symptoms of the Real Problem.  We’re a generation in America that loves to treat the symptoms.  We have a symptom we take a pill.  If we have a symptom we go see a doctor.  We have a symptom we get into a support group.  We have a symptom I mean we’re; we just really try to treat our symptoms.  Should we treat our symptoms, or should we treat our problem?

Well we love to treat our symptoms.  There are seven symptoms of the real problem today.  May I remind you here that here they were on the way to the Promised Land, they were disobedient to God, and because they were disobedient to God, they were in the wilderness for 40 years, and they never got to enter into the Promised Land.  What were the symptoms?

(1)       Doubt.  Doubt.  They doubted whether or not God’s Word was real.  They doubted whether or not God would get them to the land of the Promised Land.  They doubted whether or not they could capture the land.  Remember the ites had it, all the ites, Hittites, Jebusites, all the ites, they had it.  We talked about it last week.  They’re as a load full of them.  And God said don’t worry about it, I’m going to take care of the ites.  It’s your land, not theirs, we’re going to take care of it!  But they chose not to believe God.  And remember they had seen the plush, they had seen the wonderful land filled with milk and honey, they were on the brink of greatness, but they doubted what God said to them.  Doubt is a symptom of a much deeper problem in your life.

(2)       Fear.  They were fearful.  Do you know what they feared?  They feared what they did not know.  We fear what we don’t know.  They feared the uncertain.  We fear the uncertain.  A year ago I had the privilege of working with some of the greatest religious leaders, spiritual leaders in North America.  I learned that when change occurs people love change as long as it doesn’t affect their lives.  And I also learned that when change is on the way, and change is talked about, it doesn’t matter how you articulate it, and say, people always imagine the worst-case scenario.  Much like us in the room today we get an issue, we get a problem, we imagine the worst-case scenario possible!  Oh man my ankle hurts.  Well I had a friend one time they had bone cancer from that ankle started hurting.  And we’ll blow a whole week in our lives because we’re fearful we have something much greater to us other than we simply turned our ankle.

You see we are really pros at imagine the worst.  Why is that?  Because we are captive to fear rather than being persuaded and dominated with faith.  Doubt.  Fear.

(3)       Worry. Boy they fretted over everything.  They fretted over food to eat, water to drink.  They fretted from wondering if they were going to have protection over their enemies.  They were worried.  Anybody here today have a corner on worry?  There’s one honest, and then there’s the rest of us.  Worry is real.  Worry and fear and doubt are symptoms of a much greater problem in your life.

(4)       Discontentedness is another symptom.  Think about these people.  They’re so much like us!  They begged God to get them out of Egypt, and then within days of God getting them out of Egypt, they regretted they ever left Egypt!  And they begged God and Moses to take them back to Egypt because they would rather be in the comfort of their sinfulness and slavery rather than on the brink and the adventure of living a life of faith.  We would rather be content with things we’re used to rather than trusting God for the things we don’t yet see with our eyes.  They disliked where they were, but they disliked where they were before they got where they were and where they are.

We live in a discontented generation, discontent with where we are, what we have, who we know, what we do.  Can I get an, at least an grunt out of you?  I mean we have a corner on being discontented in life.  Discontentedness, listen to me, is a symptom of a much greater problem in your life.  Don’t laugh it off.  Don’t discard it.  Don’t act like it’s not really a big deal.  And then:

(5)       Complaining and Blaming.  They were really professionals at complaining and blaming.  They complained to each other.  They complained to Moses and Aaron.  They blamed Moses and Aaron for getting them where they are.  But the reality, the Scripture verifies, is that they weren’t complaining and blaming Moses, they were complaining and blaming God!  Now you think about that, that means when you are complaining and blaming, you’re really not complaining to the people, and about the people, you’re really complaining to God that you don’t like where you are!  And you don’t like the situation where you are!  And then you blame!

Listen, the American generation is filled with the blame game.  Man we’ve got that game down!  We don’t take responsibility for our choices, and we blame everybody from politics to the President, to the party, to the pastor, to the church, to the coach, to the whoever it is in the culture!  God help us!  We’re about as deep as a thimble spiritually.  And you get in your corner and you can sing kumbyya, and you can raise your hands while you sing, but if you’re filled with complaining and blaming, I’m sorry, you better start all over again.  And then we come to:

(6)       Rebellion to Authority.  They rejected Moses’ leadership.  They rebelled against the authority.  You know we, we are so that in our culture.  Guys I really hate to say that again and again, but that’s really where we are.  You know, the boss, we don’t like the boss so we rebel against the boss, we rebel against the company.  We don’t like where America is so we think everything’s horrible and terrible and it’s awful!  We don’t like our schools!  We’ve got problems with everything!  And you’ve got the answer to everything!  No you don’t!  I don’t have the answers to everything!  We must understand rebellion to authority is a symptom of a much greater problem in your life.  And I want to challenge you parents who have kids at home, you better be careful what you say and how you act!  Your kids are going to literally reproduce what you are!  They will reproduce what you are.

And then the:

(7)       Hardness of the Heart.  Hardness of the heart.  They did it so much their hearts became hardened and it didn’t bother them anymore.  I’m telling you there are a lot of you; you’re not bothered by the Word of God on a Sunday anymore because you’ve said no so long it doesn’t matter anymore.  I just wish he’d hurry up, shut up and sit down.  I got my religion in.  Let’s go home.  Okay.  Good.  Boy hardness of heart is really challenging.  Do you know what?  When the Word doesn’t melt our hearts anymore, boy we’ve got a real sick problem in life.  We’ve got a real sick problem.

But you see, you take those seven symptoms; they are nothing more than symptoms of a much greater problem.  You know what would be written about us if this were written in, in, in the 21st Century, and we were those people?  Let me tell you what it would say.  Well we decided we were going to organize everybody, and we were going to put everybody in a Bible Study about each one of those seven things.  And if you didn’t want to go to a Bible Study, no problem, we’ve got seven support groups.  If you’ve got worry, we want to help you overcome your worry.  We want you to get with all the worriers and we want you to get a night together and worry yourself until you get delivered from worry.

And we want all of the discontents to get together and see how long you can live with each other before you kill each other.  Do you know what we would do?  We would try to help those with doubt, fear, and worry manage it, not overcome it!  Let me tell you how you cope with this.  And then you know what we would do?  We would accommodate the complainers and the blamers!  That’s why they’re on talk shows, and we lift them up because they sell papers or they gain an audience!  And most of the times they are nothing more than a bunch of idiots that have an opinion about something and they need to keep their opinion to themselves!

You say I don’t necessarily agree with that.  That’s fine.  You don’t have to agree with it.  That’s exactly where the culture is folks.  You see we, we, we love that kind of stuff.  Ah man, boy he told them, didn’t he?  We, we, we told them?  Told them that nothing was right, and everybody’s bad.  Is that what we want?  Is that what the Christian life is?  No!  We would have tried to massage their discontentedness.  It will be okay.  Don’t worry about it.  We would have joined in the rebellion to authority.  And our hearts would have been as hard as their hearts.

You see those are the root problems, those are the symptoms, but there’s a real root problem that I really want to go down on here for a moment.  And it’s that:

  1. 3. One Root Problem that is talked about in this story.  Here it is.  The root

problem it’s not fear, worry, or any of the other seven.  The root problem is unbelief. When you look at unbelief, unbelief shows itself through complaining, blaming, discontentedness, doubt, fear, worry, hardness of heart, rebellion to authority, all of it shows is we’re not certain about what God says because that’s what unbelief is.

You see, what did I say earlier in the takeaway?  Unbelief is a serious and grave sin.  Is there a high price to pay for unbelief?  What is the cost of unbelief?  If it’s so bad, what did we learn?  You see listen carefully unbelief is not believing God is who He says He is, will do what He says He will do, and that He has everything under control under His providential care.

Now I want to confess something to you.  I believe God is who He says He is.  And I don’t have any problem with that.  And I really don’t have a problem as well with believing that, that He will do whatever He wants to do.  But I’ll tell you where I struggle with that scenario, in that little trinity there let me tell you where I struggle on trusting in His providential care for my life when I look back and things didn’t go like I thought they might go!  And then I’ve got to trust in that providential care.  Because if I don’t trust in it, guess what happens?  Fear.  Worry.  Discontentedness.  Rebellion to Authority.  Ticked off at God.  Angry at God.  And you know what the church is messed up today in America because we’ve got a lot of people that are mad at God!  And they’re sweet, and they’re dressed nice, they come to church, they’re religious, they love God, they sing songs, they teach classes, they understand, but deeply they’re pretty ticked off at God because certain things didn’t happen that they felt needed to happen.  And they haven’t ever got over it.

Well, therefore, we’ve got to come to the point when we have to understand when we don’t trust in the providential care of God, or God is who He says He is, and will do what He says He will do, then there’s a high cost to that unbelief.  What is that cost?  I tell you what.  They lost three things.  Do you know what you lose?  You:

(1)       Lose the will of God.  They lost the will of God.  Think about this with me.  They had the will of God, was going to go to the Promised Land, God’s perfect place for them.  God’s best, but they lost it.  Do you know why they lost it?  Unbelief.  Unbelief!  But they not only lost unbelief, or lost the will of God, there is something else you lose, you:

(2)       Lose the works of Jesus Christ.  Going back to that Matthew 13:58 passage, they lost they works of Jesus!  Just think what Jesus may have done in Nazareth.  Just think what He could have possibly done in that city that so desperately needed the witness of the gospel.  But He chose not to because they didn’t honor Him, and they didn’t believe Him, and He wasn’t going to waste His sacred energy on an unbelieving and an obstinate people.  They lost the works of Christ.  We will lose the works of Christ in our life.  We will lose the works of Christ in our church if we operate with unbelief!  And they also, you will:

(3)       Lose eternal life in heaven. That’s the highest price of unbelief.  You don’t lose eternal life in heaven if you trust in Jesus Christ and Him alone for your salvation, but this room today is filled with students, and it’s filled with adults who have never come to the place where they understand that they are a sinner, where they confess their sin, and they ask Christ to come into their life, they trust in the death and the burial and the resurrection of the Risen Christ, and they trust Him for their eternal salvation, and when person doesn’t do that, then they spend eternity separated from God in a place called Hell.  They lose eternal life in heaven.

Think about it this way, drunkenness will not send you to hell.  Perverted sexuality will not send you to hell.  Hating someone won’t send you to hell.  Unbelief sends you to hell.  Unbelief you lose heaven and you lose eternal life.

We’ve talked about 3 Scripture passages.  We have talked about seven symptoms of the root problem of unbelief.  We’ve talked about the depths of that unbelief and the cost of it.  I close with this today, the:

  1. 4. One Major Key to Casting Unbelief Out of Your Life. Do you know

when the Old Testament talks about believing God it says that they did not believe God.  You have to understand what that word meant.  God was saying this in the Old Testament, they are not confirming who I am.  They are not supporting My Word.  They are not believing in My Word and in Me.  Let me take it to a different level.  In spite of all the evidence I have given them, the plague, the signs, the wonders, the pillar of fire, the pillar of cloud, they Red Sea parting, all of the mighty wonders, but they still did not confirm My Word.

Then you take that and you transfer that to the New Testament.  The heart of the word faith in the New Testament is founded in the idea of certainty.  In fact the word faith is rooted in certainty and firmness.  Therefore, when you take that with the New Testament, and then you go back to the Hebrew language in the Old Testament, here’s what you learn.  In the causative of the Hebrew what that means is to cause to be certain, or another way, to be certain about.  And then you transfer that back to the New Testament, now follow me.  I know you feel like you’re in ping-pong, but follow me today.  Biblical faith therefore is an assurance!  It is a certainty.  And it’s exactly what the writer of Hebrews says it is in chapter 11, verse 1 when he says, “Now faith is the assurance, the confirmation, the support of things hoped for, for the conviction…” I added the words upon the evidence of things not seen.

Sometime you see evidence, sometime you don’t.  Hebrews 11:1 says you’ve got to confirm it even when you don’t see it.  Are you with me?  But then he says that we know there are signs and wonders and there are miracles, and there are great things that God has done.  Hebrews 11 is filled with those stories!  It’s an amazing deal.  And what the Lord is saying is that even when we cannot see it with our human eyes at times, we trust it, and may God help us when it’s glaring that God has been involved, we trust Him.  We don’t get skeptical about it or cynical about it, or critical about it, but we are trusting our God.  So if you want to come down to this, this, this one major key to casting unbelief out of your life, here it is.  It is insightful, but yet it’s so simple.  It is you believing what God says! That’s what it is!

If you want unbelief to be kicked out of your life, thrown out of your life, you’ve got to believe what God says!  Do you believe what God says?  Are you believing what God says?  The problem is not a lack of evidence.  People say well if I had some evidence.  No, the problem is not a lack of evidence.  There’s plenty of evidence.  The problem is the condition of our hearts.  Amen.  Are you with me?  Because when the heart is deceitful and wicked, how are you going to know it?  And therefore you’re claiming your own ground, you’re holding on to your way, you’re operating with your frame of reference rather than taking God at His Word and trusting God!  Amen!

I close with this story today.  This past week I spent three days in Houston, Texas.  2 of those days I spent at MD Anderson Hospital in Houston.  Some would say it’s the greatest cancer center in the world.  My mother has acute leukemia.  It’s very vicious, very aggressive, and they have her under some experimental chemotherapy to try to retard the leukemia, even though she will never be put into actual remission without a miracle of God.  Those hours and hours that we sat and waited for various tests, and finally see the doctor on the second day, I saw people of all kinds, and I was just in one part of the hospital!  Leukemia!

Any of you know anything about cancer there are hundreds of types of cancer, but I was just in the leukemia group.  Waiting room after waiting room after waiting room filled with people from all the nations of the world.  All ages in this world.  And you know it’s very interesting here’s what I came away with from this trip.  Beyond sin I think cancer is the greatest common denominator worldwide because it touches one out of every 5 people in the world today.  Sin touches every person in the world today.

But I’ll never forget all of those times I’ve been to that hospital.  I’ve been there numerous times, I used to live 2 hours from Houston for, served 2 churches within 6 years of time that were within 2 hours from there.  I would go and make hospital runs.  Back then I would go to the hospital everyday.  I would go to several hospitals and they would be every day of every week.  And I would drive 2 hours to Houston, and I’d do that track.  You’ve done it pastors.  You’ve been there.  You’ve done what I’m talking about.  I’ve reflected upon all those families I’ve been at that hospital with, but there’s one reflection that really gripped me because I remember when a 34 year old pastor of a large church in the State of Arkansas took his 35 year old wife, leaving 2 children at home, and she had been diagnosed with extreme, aggressive cancer.  And that was my wife.

I’ll never forget the fear, the worry, the intimidation of driving up to that hospital and I was the guy that was suppose to have all the answers.  And I’ll never forget at being at Hobby Airport that night and that cancer doctor calling me before I got on the plane.  He said Ronnie your wife has a very severe cancer.  We’re going to administer to her extreme chemotherapy and I’m telling you she cried.  We both cried most of the way home.

It was an early morning through a time of fasting and prayer that God gave me a word.  Because I had to decide who I was going to believe.  Was I going to believe what was being told to me by medical science, or by a team of doctors?  Oh I surely would not ignore it.  That would be stupidity.  And we did everything they wanted us to do.  But I believed something greater than that; I believed what God had put on my heart.  And I’ll never forget that morning I, I took an index card.  That was in the day Cliff when all of us would wear suits everyday.  Do you remember that?  When preachers used to look like preachers?  And we wore suits everyday, and most of NWA wore a suit in all the major corporations and businesses.  And I would take that index card, and I’d put that right over my heart every morning, and anytime I got fearful, I got that card out and I talked to God about what He had told me in that card!  And I reminded Him that I was going to believe Him by faith.  That my wife would be healed.

And yet all of the evidence at times wasn’t helping me out.  I remember on Mothers’ Day that year when I walked down from my study and I saw her on a Sunday morning sprawled out on the floor not a hair on her head, sick as sick could be, and I picked her up, and I took her to bed.  She was so determined to go to church that day, by the way that was the only Sunday she missed church all year, but that was also her son’s birthday, Josh.  Mothers’ Day, and she knew what that meant.  She was so sick that we had to go have a birthday party for Josh in the garage of Bert and Wanda Miller who lived down the street from us because Jeana was so, her blood was so low and that day I had to once again get the card out and remind God.  Anybody identify with this?

You say what was on that card?  I tell you it was a great word God gave me.  I called it to Him for several years everyday until they told me to the best of our knowledge she’s healed.  Here was the card.  It came out of Isaiah 43.  Ronnie and Jeana fear not for I have redeemed you.  I’ve called you by name.  You are Mine.  And when you pass through the waters of cancer I will be with you.  And through the rivers of uncertainty they shall not overwhelm you.  And when you walk through the fire of radiation and chemotherapy, and everything changes, you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.  For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.

I want you to listen today; I had to make a choice.  Everyday you have to make a choice because it’s not like we sing at Christmas everyday oh the weather outside is … It’s not.  Life isn’t filled with those wonderful moments 24/7!  It’s going to come down am I going to portray the symptoms or am I going to trust the One who holds the sea in His hands, and who breathed the world into existence?  That choice is easy.  I chose to believe God.

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