|City on a Hill - Writings for Refuge

Faith happens each day. One of the main reasons our faith fails is we look too far ahead. We don't need to borrow worry from tomorrow about how we will manage, what will happen, what we will choose. Matthew 6:31-34 NKJV — “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ “For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Making today's choices in faith is much easier when tomorrow's trouble stays there. If I start trying to address tomorrow's trouble with today's choices I easily get confused by my emotions and wrong understanding of what will happen... This causes me to compromise faith with logic. James 4:13-14 NKJV — Come no...

The WHO of faith is what matters.   God is rebirthing us to stop trying to figure out how we will have what we need and instead connect us to the "who" we need. Adam and Eve lost the complete confidence in who, and the whole world changed. The "who" of faith determines the source of our leadership. God has always made a way for the how. Genesis 3:11 And He said, " Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?" God's word reassures me of all the things I am tempted to worry about how.   Matthew 6:30-34 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? "Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all ...

Faith means God isn't interested in you seeing HOW he is going to save your world/situation/dream/promise. God wants those who are His to see Him.   He is the "how" of all of His promises. When God gives you a promise, learn to believe the promise, not the "how" you think God will use. Then you will be counted among the faithful, and protected from creating a false image of God. We see dimly. God sees clearly. He refuses to violate the boundary lines of or our heart. Your heart, or your mind, will, and emotions, is communicated with through your imagination. Ezekiel and Jeremiah are two great examples of how God practically communicates with man.  Ezekiel traveled all over the middle east in his imagination, or what is called "in the Spirit," communing with God. We read His words thousands of years later because the Spirit of God testifies that what Ezekiel SAW was from God. Same is true of Jeremiah, Isaiah, David, Daniel, etc. Jeremiah 1:9-12 NKJV — T...