October 30

Although the Word of God never changes, the Word of God changes things! The entrance of God’s Word into a situation has the power to transform the circumstances, to conform them to the will of the One who holds all things in the hollow of His hand and whose plan for those who trust Him is to bless and do them good.

II Corinthians 4:13 says, “…I have believed, therefore have I spoken. We believe and therefore we speak.” We do not keep our faith bottled up within us—rather—we proclaim it! We do not anticipate disappointment in our expectation—rather—we expect that He will exceed our expectation of the good He will do in our behalf.

Will we see the outcome of our faith immediately? Perhaps, but perhaps not. We know that, “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1). Sometimes the Lord expects us to stand fast in faith, anticipating the promise before the promise becomes reality.

The one thing we know—whether the answer comes immediately when we pray or whether Jesus allows us to mature through the struggle of wrestling as Jacob did until the promise is given (Genesis 32:24-30), the Word in which we hope is forever true and forever blessed—and it blesses us forever.