Enduring Faith

admin July 25, 2020 1 Comment

James 1:3

Knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

When things start going wrong in our lives, what happens to our faith? Do we start losing hope, give up praying because the breakthrough isn’t coming and then begin to sink unbelief? Or do we expectantly and persistently keep the faith knowing that God will come through for us, even if it’s not in the way we expect Him to?

Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.” It is the believe and confidence that things yet unseen will happen as God said they will. It involves accepting God’s perspective as He reveals it in the Bible.

Brother James spoke of the fact that the trials of our faith will produce in us endurance. In other words, our faith will pass through the test of the deepest waters and the fierest fire. Our faith will go through the greatest adversity we can ever think of that might want to shake us. However, when this happens the question comes, Do we believe what the circumstances say, or do we keep on believing God? Although, no one has the luxury of going through a problem-free life. The psalmist wrote, “A righteous man may have many troubles, but the Lord delivers him from them all” (Psalm 34:19). Just knowing that God’s plan is to deliver you should make it a bit easier to have an enduring faith – one that holds on to God in the time of trouble.

Your faith in God will help you rise above any hardship you face. 1 John 5:4 (NKJV) says, “…this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith.” when the manifestation of what we believe is not seen, sometimes God changes us on the inside first, helping us develop an enduring faith just like James said as we focus on Him and keep trusting His Word.