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Some people find it difficult
to believe God’s promises because they’ve seen so many things in the
natural world that seem to contradict them. They’ve seen faithful
tithers go broke. They’ve seen sick Christians fail to receive their
healing.
In reality, it would be more accurate to say that they think they’ve
seen those things. Because, you see, there’s a deceiver at work in the
world. A deceiver who’s busily doing the same thing he’s been doing ever
since the Garden of Eden: tricking mankind into believing God’s Word
isn’t true.
And, after working on it for thousands of years, he’s a
master at it. Think about that the next time he tries to make things
look as though God’s Word is not going to work for you, when he makes it
look like all hope is lost. Say, “I don’t care about appearances. I
believe the Word and I refuse to doubt it.”
Let me show you what I
mean. Have you ever seen a magic show where someone crawls inside a box
and then is sawn in half? You can see it with your own two eyes. The
guy’s feet are sticking out one end of the box and his head is poking
out the other, and the box is plainly cut in two. Then the magician
slides the two halves back together and the sawed-apart fellow jumps out
of the box in one piece.
Now tell me, did you really believe,
even for a moment, that fellow was truly cut in half? Of course not! You
knew that you’d seen a trick, a deception, something that appeared one
way when, in reality, it was a different way altogether. You may not
have known how it was done. You may not have been able to explain it.
But you knew a person couldn’t be sawn in half, then put back together,
so you refused to believe your eyes.
That’s exactly the way you
need to be where the Word of God is concerned. You need to learn to
trust it and rely on it to such an extent that when Satan shows you
something in the natural world that appears to contradict it, you just
say, “Well, I saw that, but I’m not going to be gullible enough to
believe it. I’m just going to stick with the Word.”
If you’ll do that, the father of lies will never be able to put one over on you.
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