Relentless: A 5-Day Guide To Discovering God's Faithfulness Sample

Faith in God presents a fascinating conundrum. So many of us have faith, but when doubt and unbelief creep in, our faith is the first thing to be compromised. Protecting your heart from the sinister attacks of unbelief takes practice. Training. It’s a constant struggle during normal, daily challenges, but it can be a more desperate, pitched battle when the stakes are high. Life-and-death high.

That’s where I am in my mind. I’m in the bunker along the front lines with night-vision goggles, straining to spot the enemy. Like Captain Kirk, on the bridge of the USS Enterprise, barking out the command to divert all of his ship’s power to the shields. My faith is my shield. My Scriptures are my phasers, set to more than stun.

So, what do I have faith for? Is it faith for what will come out of the doctor’s mouth, what the machines say? Or is it faith for what’s in Psalm 118:8: “It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man”? Or maybe 1 Peter 2:24: “By [his] stripes you were healed.” Or perhaps for what Jesus promised in Mark 11:23–24.

Connie and I now pray differently. We do not beg God. We accept the healing and the authority already given to us. We do not plead our case. Rather, we express our gratitude for the gift that is promised in the new covenant. Understanding the nature of Jesus was a revelation. We are communicating daily with the Holy Spirit and meditating on the authority given to us in the Scriptures specific to healing. Connie and I had witnessed miraculous healings. We were encouraged. We became committed. Steadfast. We had renewed our minds and connected to the supernatural promise of healing. We know that God’s wish and desire is that we prosper and be in health (3 John 1:2). God wants us to be world overcomers (1 John 5:5).