Only Believe

God has already provided whatever and anything we need. God has no problem, He has already told us what we need to do. Your assignment is to know what God has done, and believe it.

Where you are now is a great reflection of your belief in God.

2 Chronicles 20:20b
"...Believe in the Lord your God, and you shall be established; believe His prophets, and you shall prosper."

Even before you start believing, ensure that God is Lord over everything in your life. "Lord" means "owner." If you make Him Lord, He will be Lord over everything: your mouth, body, house etc. 

We believe in the prophets only because they deliver the word of God.

To "believe" means to have confidence in the truth, existence or reliability of something." To believe in God means to have confidence in the truth, existence and reliability of God. 

You may not feel like the airplane is moving, but that does not mean it's not moving. Have confidence that the God who promised will fulfilled His promise. The enemy wants to steal our confidence, by using what we are seeing in the physical. If you believe in the Lord your God, He is Lord even over the economy and so you will not be moved or worried with the fluctuation of the economy. Nothing will move you!

Even when everybody else was starving, the woman in 2 Kings 4:1-7 who had her oil multiplied never felt the drought. She believed in the Lord and in His prophet, and was established and prospered even when everybody else was starving. 

The physical does not have to agree with the promise of God, for Him to fulfil it. Our confidence is not in the government, but in God. The God who promised never sleeps. Your assignment is to have that confidence. 

Hebrews 10:38

".. Now the just shall live by faith; but if anyone draws back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

Whatever God has said is final and settled, but you have to have confidence in Him and His word. You cannot believe what you do not know. The enemy's objective is to waver your belief and confidence. All your solutions are in the word. 

John 1:1-5

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

You cannot believe God and not believe in His word. God and His word are one and the same. God is still speaking, even when people are not listening. 

John 3:16

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

"Believes" according to the above known verse is in continuous tense. This is continuous believing in the word of God and in Him, no matter what the situations are, or if things are changing. 

"Perish" does not only mean in hell, but also perishing in life, sicknesses, poverty, etc. 

"Eternal life" is not going to heaven only. 

John 17:3

And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

Eternal life is knowing in God, and believing in Him. 

Many people talk about "doing the work of God," but what exactly is the "work of God?" 

John 6:29

Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.”

The work of God is that we may believe in Him whom He sent. Believing is mandatory, not optional. 

John 15:5

“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing."

Jesus calls for us to remain in Him, and believe in Him as the one whom the Father sent. Apart from believing in God, we can do nothing. Believing in Jesus is believing in the word of God:

Colossians 1:15-17

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

Hebrews 1:3

"... who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high"

Everything you see and not see was created by the word. By believing in this word, you are believing in the word that created all things. This word has the capacity to create all things. 

Mark 9:23

Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”

The word has power to remove any mountain standing before you. Your problem is not the devil. If there are things that are not possible to you, work on your unbelief. 

Believing in the word means to also believe in all the word says, regarding your prosperity. If the word says that tithing and giving offerings is what will get the floodgates of heaven open and have the devourer rebuked, nothing else will. If the word says that it's only by giving that things will come back to you good measures, pressed down and running over, nothing else will accomplish this in your life. 

Luke 6:38

Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.”

Instead of praying God to remove you out of poverty, sow into abundance! Keep giving, and it will always be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put in your bosom. If you have nothing to give, pray that God may give you a seed to sow. 

You have to believe in God, and believe in His word. 

-- Apostle Dr. David Karanja.

(28/4/13 Sunday Service Sermon, Africa Transformation Mission. At Pramukh Plaza, 6th Floor)

Apostle Dr. David Karanja is the Senior Pastor at Africa Transformation Mission, a ministry under Christ Harvesters Ministries.