Word for the Day October
20
By:
Evang. Cascille Hammack
"You will keep in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because
he trusts in You." Isaiah 26:3
To have faith is to trust God. To allow
fear to dominate our thoughts proves we do not trust Him. The enemy, who walks around as a roaring lion, uses
fear to try to intimidate the mind. But he is a liar and the father of lies. 2 Tim. 1:7 declares, "For
God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind." The enemy can only have dominion
if we let him. Isaiah 26:3 teaches that God will keep in perfect peace those whose mind stay on Him because
he trusts in Him. Are you trusting Him with your life today or are you leaning on your own strength and understanding?
Those who do that will be quickly shown the futility of such. To lean on our own understanding instead of
on the Lord is to operate in pride, the pride of our own ways, and God hates pride. Proverbs 16:18 tells us, "Pride
goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall."
God requires His children to trust Him
and to keep our eyes on Him. He is able to do all. Nothing is too hard for Him. He only requires our
trust and belief that He will see us through. He will get all of the glory. If you have died to yourself
and have been born again into His kingdom, your life is no longer about you, it is about Him. Gal. 2:20 explains,
"I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now
live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me."