Escaping the Doubt mill

ESCAPE INTO FAITH, NARROWWAY friends !

DOUBTS AND DOUBTING

 

Recently as I was reading James Chapter 1 again, I was struck by what the Scripture has to say on the power of doubts; of doubting God’s Word and promises. It says: “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, Who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts (“uncertainty about the truth, fact, or existence of something; lack of belief in or conviction about something” – Collins Dictionary) 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” (v. 5-8).

 

I’m sure we all feel that we need more wisdom, especially the God-kind of wisdom. Wisdom is “skilfulness, or the right application in applying knowledge”; it is knowing how and what to do with what we know. It is the action part of imparting knowledge. We are told to ask for it in faith.

 

·         Faith is believing what God says more than what we think about it ~ in spite of the prevailing circumstances that we can feel or see.

 

The Bible clearly tells us that doubt is a robber of our getting things from God. Doubt puts a question mark where God puts an exclamation mark! One is very negative (doubts), and one is very positive (faith). We choose which one to believe ~ God or our doubts?

 

 

 Narrowway's 13 years in street ministry would have  failed if I listened to human reason alone,. The beauty of not being able to control things  allowed for  often rapid and intense situations where God worked, when the flesh was unable.

 

A place where   self side is undone so the new side can grow, through prayer and confidence with awareness. 1 Corinthians 1-3 faith is not a philosophy or a series of questions to be answered in back of booklet,. And who ever sounds smarter gets a good grade,  the real grade is faith led life which pleases God and does not get much notoriety by the doubt avoids life long spiritual infancy.

 

I know that's not the desire of the many we met,  but often we  people get caught up in the ease life of the culture as form of spirituality, it becomes a state condition seen in Laodicea where their prosperity resulted in their final condition, as being more offensive to God  and friendly to a a fallen world. 

 

Doubt only please flesh.