Excerpt from UNTAMED pt 3

This is from Sunday's message on faith from Daniel Chapter 3.

"If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to save us from it, and He will rescue us from your hand, o king. But even if He does not, we want you to know, o king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the imagine of gold you have set up." Daniel 3:17-17 (NIV)

Faith is not trust in a certain outcome. We can easily fall into thinking that faith is thinking that a certain thing will come to pass. True Biblical faith is not wishing. Faith is not believing in a certain outcome to your prayers. True faith is not believing in your ability to believe. Faith is trusting a person! Faith is trusting in CHRIST!

Faith is not about pumping up yourself emotionally. It's not positive thinking. Faith is not a mind game you play with yourself. God doesn't ask you to believe in your ability to believe. God asks you to believe in Christ!

As we believe in Christ, we trust that He is able. Nothing is too hard for God! He is able to reconcile broken marriages. He is able to liberate people from addiction. He is able to heal damaged bodies. He is able to forgive the darkest sin, provide for the greatest need, and soften the hardest heart.

"God can do anything you know - far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams!" Ephesians 3:20 (The Message)

We trust that He is better than His gifts!
"but even if He does not."

This is one of the most personally challenging statements to me in the whole book. God is able to do amazing miracles but what about when He chooses to not? Will you continue to follow Jesus when He doesn't give you the outcome you had in mind.

God is able to heal your marriage but even if He does not will you still follow Him in it?

God is able to bring you a mate that loves Him and will honor you but even if He does not will you honor Him in your relationships by staying sexually pure even when you feel pressure?

God is able to provide for you in amazing ways financially but even if He does not. Even if you never have the financial life you dream of will You follow Him and be faithful to Him in the way you handle money?

Many of us want a certain outcome to our faith more than we want to know Jesus! True faith through is not trust in a certain outcome, it is trust and devotion to the person of Christ!