Have You Felt Like Giving Up Lately?Sample

God Has Not Forgotten You

There is a fiery message burning in my bones. It is a message every Christian needs to hear, especially in this age of overpowering temptation and excruciating hurt.

The message I bring you from the Lord is simply this: God has not forgotten you. He knows exactly where you are and what you are going through right now, and he is monitoring every step along your path. But we are just as the children of Israel who doubted God’s daily care for them, even though prophets were sent to deliver wonderful promises from heaven.

God’s people sat in darkness, hungry and thirsty, praying for deliverance and comfort. Did God’s people quit their fretting and begin trusting in the Lord to see them through? Did those who were hurt and confused believe a single word of these promises? No! 

Here we are today as children of the same holy God, having in us the glorious promise of Holy Ghost comfort; yet we go about daily fearing the oppressor. We know what our Lord has promised us: guidance, peace, a shelter from the storm, a way where there seems to be none, a supply for every need, healing for every hurt. Do we believe any of it? 

We forget in our hour of need that God has us in the palm of his hand. Instead, like the children of Israel, we are afraid we are going to blow it all and be destroyed by the enemy. 

It seems to me even the New Testament echoes God’s displeasure with unbelief.

“But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways” (James 1:6–8).

Jesus was concerned that when he returned to this earth, he would not find any faith left. Can it be that we continue in our hurt, in our sin or in living in defeat and failure simply because we really do not believe God answers our prayers anymore?

Instead of submitting to the Lord in quiet confidence and resting in his promises, we try so hard to work out our own solutions. Then when our way of doing things blows up in our faces, we get angry with God.

God has not forsaken you or me. No! A thousand times no. Right now, he is wanting us all to believe he is working all things out for our good. So quit trying to figure it out. Stop worrying. Stop doubting our Lord. The answer is coming. God has not shut his ear. We will reap in due season, if we faint not.