Faith Through Fellowship August 21st Devotional

Read:

John 20:29

29 Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."

There are times in our Christian walk where we seem to want just a little more than this faith stuff. I know there have been times in my walk with Christ that I wanted to see Him with my own natural eyes. Lord, just let me see you to really really believe that what I am having faith for is real. Then it seems like the Lord tells me, "Son, I am spirit and I am not of this world." God tells us in His word that the natural man receives not the spiritual things of Him because they are spiritually discerned. We know that there is a God because of salvation through repentance, but the best way to have faith is to fellowship with God with a pure heart. Many speak faith in the wrong way and this sets a distorted picture of who God really is. Faith is really just learning of God's ways through His word. Faith is reaching out to God when all hell is coming against you to not reach out. Faith is seeking God when everyone of this world is saying that you have to be crazy to pray. I want to encourage you today to reach out to God in your fellowship with Him. His arms are opened wide ready to receive you.

Prayer:

Lord, we come to you by faith today with our hands lifted high. We seek you with all of our hearts and ask that you will give us some more of your glory to carry on the great commission and to walk in your Holy love. Faith works by love Lord, and we want to extend your love by faith to those who need your love, Amen.

by Keith Edwards