Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do
not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you
go.” Joshua 1:9
We all want God to answer our prayers. We
believe in the power of prayer, but when it comes down to our own
individual lives and our own problems, we often don’t have the faith to
believe God will answer. The times we are living in are difficult. We
are often trapped by our unbelief and fear, but God is preparing us for
the end-time harvest.
He wants to enlarge our territory. He wants to bless us with increase,
because His nature is to care and bestow divine favor on us.
We are the ones who limit Him because of our lack of trust and our fear of stepping out in faith.
ability and should be trusting in His supernatural ability. When we back
away from dependence and trust in God, we are not living by faith. He
wants us to trust and obey His Word. He wants us to be strong and
courageous. We need to be willing to attempt things big enough that
unless God’s steps in, we are sure to fail. This is the kind of trust
and dependence He is looking for in our life. We need not be shaken. He
can break through every obstacle. He is the God of the impossible!
Prayer…
Lord, I thank You that You are the God of the impossible. You can do
anything. I want to trust in Your ability and not my own. Teach me to
see difficulties in my life from Your perspective. Help me to focus on
You and Your power. I want to be like Joshua and Caleb who believed in a
good report and focused on You even in hard circumstances (Numbers
14:7-9). My responsibility is to carefully read, trust, and obey Your
Word. Today I bring before You this difficulty in my life [Name a hard
situation you are right now facing]. Help me not to fear but to trust
You in this situation. I declare my faith in Your ability to fulfill
Your promises to me. You will fight for me and win the battles in my
life. You are mighty, powerful, righteous and true.I have nothing to fear with You on my side.
I will be strong and courageous even in hard times. I will not be
terrified or discouraged, for the Lord my God will be with me wherever I
go (Joshua 1:9). You will never leave me or forsake me (Joshua 1:5). I
do not need to figure everything out. You already know the best plan for
my life. I will not try any man-made method to do only what You can do.
Show me Your supernatural power. Teach me how to walk by faith and pray
breakthrough prayers. I choose to have faith in Your ability to break
through every obstacle in my life. Just like Joshua, You will give me
the land and every place where my feet step (Joshua 1:3). “Through you
we push back our enemies; through your name we trample our foes. I do
not trust in my bow, my sword does not bring me victory; but you give us
victory over our enemies, you put our adversaries to shame. In God we
make our boast all day long, and we will praise your name forever” (Psa
44:5-8).
[by Debbie Przybylski]
