Notice Abraham didn’t try to get by on faith that was weak and wavering. He developed faith that was strong and unstaggering. So, to walk in his footsteps, we’ll need to develop that kind of faith, too—and we can do it if we’ll do the same thing he did.
First, he based his faith on The WORD of God. He founded it on the promise God gave him that he and Sarah would have a son. In our lives, as in Abraham’s, unstaggering faith is always founded on what God has said. It’s always grounded on The WORD.
Second, Abraham refused to focus on natural conditions and contrary circumstances. He refused to fix his attention on his 99-year-old body and his 90-year-old wife, who’d been barren all her life. Instead, he fixed the eyes of his spirit on God’s promise and walked “by faith, not by [natural] sight” (2 Corinthians 5:7).
Third, he called things that were not, as though they were. He gave glory to God and called himself the “father of many nations,” until he became “fully persuaded” God could and would do what He said.
Being fully persuaded is a powerful thing. It’s more than just mentally assenting to God’s WORD or knowing a lot of Bible verses about a situation. It happens in the spirit. You become fully persuaded when you meditate on The WORD and fellowship with God over it in worship and prayer until a lightbulb comes on inside you, and you say, “Oh, yeah! I’ve got it! That’s mine!”
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