If you have spent any time on this blog or ever spent time around me you would know that my testimony is and always will be GOD IS FAITHFUL. Despite ourselves and despite what might be going on around us, He remains faithful (consistent, trustworthy) in our lives. Today I want to discuss “A Call To Communicable Faithfulness.” The word communicable means to transmit or transfer to others. In other words, because we as Christians are in covenant with God, we are called to be faithful because He is faithful. I Corinthians 1:9 in the New Living Translation says “God will do this, for He is faithful to do what He says, and He has invited you into partnership with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.” We must understand that faithfulness is essential to the very essence of who God is. For Him to be anything else would be against His nature and impossible. So, we too must continue in the faith knowing that because God has been faithful to us we must be loyal and obedient to Him. The fruit (evidence) of faithfulness is when God’s faithfulness to you takes root and begins to grow and affects the way you think and behave. I have shared my testimony with some people that I experienced a difficult pregnancy with my daughter. I carried two twin girls and at five months the doctor could no longer hear one of the heartbeats. I remember very vividly crying uncontrollably and I called my mother in law at the time and she began to pray over the phone. I remember saying “but God you promised me.” The next morning going into radiology I was resolved that whatever happened God was faithful to see me through. When they confirmed what we had been told, I still remember feeling very calm. Because of the nature of the pregnancy, I still had to carry both babies and one would be delivered live and one stillborn. I knew what the doctor said was a fact and I did not dispute it, but the faith that I had said that EVEN IF the baby was dead, if it be His will, the God I served was able to quicken the body and the baby would live. That may sound strange to some people but that is the kind of faith I have in God. Because He has been so faithful to me, I had no reason to believe that even in this situation He wouldn’t show Himself faithful. After delivering my babies, one healthy and one stillborn the Chaplin came into my room. I remember telling her that even though it did not go as I had plan, I was still thankful that I would be taking a baby home. I realized that there were parents that she would talk to who had lost a child and would have to go home empty handed. I never once believed that God had not been with me. I accepted His will and knew that He still had a plan for my life. Five months later I found out I was expecting my son and the promise of “two small children the same age” had been fulfilled. It didn’t happen the way I thought it would but God did not fail to keep His word. No matter what we are up against we must continue to trust God. He is faithful to us and we must remain faithful to Him. It is often in the most difficult times of our lives that our fleshly nature would have us to give up but those are the times when we must trust Him the most. Even when things don’t go our way, we have to trust that God has a plan to restore us and that every promise that He has made over our lives will be made manifest in the fullness of time. Our only responsibility is to trust Him.
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Jennifer
5/26/2015 04:56:39 am
This was great. It speaks volumes to me and something that I needed to read. We just have to have faith despite the circumstances and trust that he will work it out his way. :)
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