"Addicted"

I have what I think will be a short blog and a short thought today. I know this may come as a shock to most who read what I write, but I have been doing some soul searching and even better than that, some Spiritual searching through the Word of God.

I found this one particular verse that spoke to me while thinking of how amazing our God is; how loud (tornado’s, weather etc) HE can be, yet how quiet He can be.(silent when we are expecting)

Sometimes we doubt what God might have for us. Ok, maybe I just doubt. I don’t know, but I do know this; when we can’t see Him move in our midst, we begin to wonder. I know I am not alone in that thought, but I am willing to admit it.

Sometimes we forget that our FAITH is not in what we see but what we do not see.

While I was in Oklahoma this weekend past, I woke from a sound sleep as I plainly heard the voice of the Father say to me at 2:20 am on Saturday morning; “Your faith, is an ‘addiction’ of the things you see!” “You cannot wake up from your sleep and begin to truly see what is right in front of you, for thinking you already know what you “see”…..and you do not,” says the Lord, “because you are addicted to the normal and accepted, and I am not normal nor accepted by man. I am faith.” “Lose your addiction of the things you see, and begin to believe.”

The reality of those words, which I quickly got up and wrote down, began to burrow into my Soul.

I know if you are like me, we think that because we ‘see’ what is around us, then we attempt to believe the next phase in our life will happen because we see what is in front of us, now. That is not faith. That is not faith. Faith believes in what you do not see.

I asked the Lord, why addiction? Why use the word addiction? Addictions are a ‘dependency.’  Yes, I thought, I am addicted to seeing what I believe is a reality. When in fact, the reality is what I do not see.

Psychologically we think we’ve got it all figured out. We become dependant on seeing. That is the danger in seeing without believing. Faith believes what we do not know, or what we do not see.

Faith believes, plain and simply put, Faith believes. (This means you do not see, if you believe for something you do not possess, yet.)

Why would I say danger? Because super sizing our ability to make something happen does not ‘believe’. 

Give it to God. When you do, you will then see that HE will not withhold any good gift from us.

Matthew 7:11 says this; “If YOU, know how to give good gifts to your children, (family and business, etc) how much more will your Father who is in Heaven give good things to those who ask?

Prayer without expectancy is unbelief in disguise.

Believe.

He is not normal or accepted. He was rejected and persecuted. But He is FAITH. Faith shows up right when you believe. Like addiction, we cannot live a day without believing in HIM.

Because I believe, I have FAITH.

When I see, I know it is supernaturally from HIM.

I remain—in Faith.