Have faith in God

“I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name”…Revelation 3:8

Oh, that you would rejoice in the power of this God, this God that is our God. Oh, that you would see Him at the Red Sea. Do you see Him? Do you see what He can do? Can you see Him bringing a great fish to rescue Jonah? Can you see Him with Daniel in the very lion's den, shutting their mouths? Can you see Him with the three Hebrew children in the fiery furnace? Can you see Him with David and Goliath? Can you see Him in the person of Christ? Feeding the 5000, making the blind to see, making the deaf to hear, making the dumb to speak, and the lame to walk? Does that not inspire you to have faith in this great One?

Gideon, on one occasion, despaired and said: 'Lord, if you are with us, if you're really here then why has all this befallen us, and where all the miracles which our fathers told us of be? Did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt? But now, Lord, you have forsaken us and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites'. Elijah had been taken up to heaven, and Elisha was told if you see me being taken up you'll be anointed by a double portion of the Spirit that I had.

As Elisha was keeping his eyes fixed on Elijah going across the Jordan - you remember the miracle that Elijah performed with his mantle, he struck the waters and the waters parted - but then on the way back Elisha had the mantle and Elijah was gone. Elisha comes and what does he do? He strikes it just like Elijah did, and he said: 'where is the Lord God of Elijah?’ Where is He? I'll tell you where He is: this God is our God. He's our God! He is with us today, His power is here, and His promises we have.

You see His power and His promises: God is our refuge, that's our protection; He's our strength, that's His power; He's a very present help, that's His presence; 'Therefore will we not fear', that's His peace. You can go through the Old Testament, go through the New Testament, and we as the church of Jesus Christ today say: 'All the promises in Him are Yea and Amen unto the glory of God by us'.