RESURRECTION FAITH
WHAT IS IT??
Over the past few weeks, I have been going through the Old Testament and one of the questions in my studies is what is resurrection faith? Now at first I thought; "what does this have to do with the Old Testament??"! Because it must mean believing that Jesus rose from the dead! Well, yes it does but there is more of a meaning there that I discovered. Let's look at a good example.
In Gen.17:15-17, God told Abraham that He would bless Sarah with a son. Now, the problem was Abraham was a 100 years old and Sarah was 90 years old!! Scripture says that Abraham laughed at this but he also believed what the Lord had said when you read further.
In the Hebrew translation, Sarah's womb was considered dead due to her age. But God was going to do something that was in the natural, impossible!
To have resurrection faith means to believe that God can bring life out of what is dead!
God can create anything out of nothing! (Heb.11:1-3) We are to believe that He can move in our life and others!!
Here is another example with Abraham. Look at Gen 22:6. We all know the story that Abraham was told by God to sacrifice his own son Isaac. Now this is the same son that the Lord promised them that they would have when they were old!!! What do you think of that!!! God promised them a son and now He wants Abraham to sacrifice him!!! What would you be thinking right about now?? But he still obeyed because he believed in what God can do! Look what Abraham said in verse 5b; "... The boy and I will go over there to worship; then we'll come back to you." You see it?? He said; "we'll". Translated plural for him and Isaac to be returning!! Abraham believed that even with the sacrifice of Isaac, that God would bring him back to life!!
How do we look at the "storms" in our life everyday? It is hard to have the faith we need to get through the stuff we walk in but God is there for us every step of the way when we make Him the focus in it!
He is the creator God that we call Father!! Stay focused on Him......He will get you through it!!!
God Bless!!!
Paul
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