Hello my friends

The title of today’s episode is: “Crazy Faith”

People thought Noah was crazy for building a boat. He preached and warned the people for years. He warned them of something that was supposed to take place that the world had never seen before: rain. He knew someone they did not know. Noah knew a God who was his friend and his deliverer. Noah took his crazy faith and put it into action. Noah never let people get in his way of doing what God told him to do and his faith saved his family from destruction.

Daniel prayed to the one true God, against the king’s command. He was bold about it. He did not get in the corner of his bedroom and quietly whispered.  He opened his windows and prayed loudly to his God three times a day.  He showed he had boldness. Many would consider that crazy faith. When it came to being thrown into a lion’s den, he trusted God to deliver him. God honors the bold and the brave.  He uses them in ways that bring deliverance to others.

It sounded impossible that a man of God could bless a meal barrel and a pot of oil for a widow, and it would not run dry until the famine was over. But the widow took all she had and fed the man of God. To many people, that would sound crazy; why would she give him her last meal?  But her crazy faith saved her and her son. God blessed her sacrifice and sustained her through the famine.

We are in a day and age when the world needs to see devoted people.  They need to see the miracles and signs that our God is awesome. We need to be bold enough to step out and even look a little crazy if necessary, walking in that crazy faith. 

A friend of mine recently asked if my grandfather had ever cast out devils. Deliverance ministry is on the rise in our country, as God shows his strength and power.  I told her he had but I did not experience it. Then I remembered when I was a twenty-two-year-old, newly married woman. My husband went to visit some friends.  He came home and told me to call my family to pray that he was going back to cast a demon out of our friend.  In shock I said, “Can you do that?”  I didn’t feel equipped myself, he said, “The bible says I can” and out the door he went. He returned an hour or so later and shared that our friend was fine.

He was so full of faith, he had what the world would call crazy faith.  In order for us to fight the enemy in the times we are living, we need to ask God for a dose of crazy faith.

I Cor 1:26-27 (26) For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:

(27) But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

Sometimes, God asks us to do things that the world may think are crazy.  But I would rather look crazy to the world than miss what God wants me to do or say.  Pleasing Him is all that matters. 

Many things to the natural mind look crazy or seem impossible. The Bible is full of people who were brave enough to step out of their comfort zone and use their faith.  God honors the bold and the brave. What is He wanting you to do that some may think is crazy? 

1Cor 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

         Sometimes, I wake up with a song on my heart.  God often uses them to set the tone for my day.  Other times I wake with a to do list running through my mind. But I want to focus on Jesus this morning.   There is nothing he cannot do.  Some people hear that phrase and think we are all crazy.   Because they prayed with all their heart for something to happen and when it didn’t (when God said no) they lost faith.

      One of the most important things we can hold on to is faith that all things work out for our good.  Even when it seems like all hope is lost.  Even when our hearts are breaking, holding steadfast to our faith is very important.

     Where would all the inspirational stories in the bible be if those people lost faith?  What if Moses had stood at the Red Sea and curled up in a ball crying, “We’re gonna die!!!”  But he held on to his faith and God provided a way of escape. He had been through enough with the Lord to know he could trust him.

Many of the saint that have gone before us had a dose of crazy faith. It is going to take that over the top, “God says I can, type of faith to win the next generations. So be encouraged, hold on to your faith, God is with us.

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Thanks for spending a little time with me.  Check out my blog at http://www.godfocus.net. Email me at angela@godfocus.net.  Until next time, Be bold, Be brave and keep your God Focus.