“Hello!” he said to his friends and neighbors, "I’m Abraham, the father of many nations!”
“Oh really?” they must have replied, “Then where are your children?”
“Well, I can’t exactly show them to you yet, but that doesn’t matter. God said I’m the father of many nations, so that’s what I am!”
Unlike some Christians today, Abraham wasn’t afraid of people thinking he was a faith fanatic. He didn’t try to hide his faith or get discouraged when unbelievers laughed at him behind his back. He just let the naysayers scoff, kept his eyes on God, and despite the apparent hopelessness of his situation:
"Against hope [he] believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God…being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform" (Romans 4:18-21).
How the Devil Loses Ground
Look again at the phrase, “[Abraham] staggered not at the promise of God.” It identifies what the devil was aiming to do in that situation. He was trying to make Abraham stagger in his faith! He was endeavoring to use contrary circumstances and contrary people to push him into unbelief.
That’s always the devil’s plan. Whenever we, as believers, start speaking and acting on the Word, he’s always going to say to us in one way or another, through what we can see with our physical eyes and hear with our ears, “You’re a fool for getting involved in this faith stuff. It’s not going to work for you. You will not get what you’re believing for.”
Even when you’re believing God for something seemingly small, like a raise at work or a more dependable car, the devil will work desperately to discourage you. He’ll do his best to get you to doubt the promise of God. Because if you don’t, that promise will come to pass in your life—and every time that happens, the devil loses ground. People around you see that the Word works and the devil winds up with another testimony of God’s faithfulness in the earth that he can’t get rid of.
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