Faith And Patience: Inheriting The Promises Of God

How can you have faith during times when it looks like nothing is happening?

Faith is not logical. Faith is believing in the supernatural. To believe what happens naturally you don’t need faith. I read a beautiful article about the biggest math-miracles that is centered around Moses and the Israelites.

In the desert, the Israelites had to get food and how do you feed 35 lakh people?

According to the quartermaster General of the American army, Moses needed 1500 ton (14 lakh kg) of food daily. A 6-km long train would be needed to transport the food.

The food had to be cooked with firewood and you must remember: they were in the desert. 4000 ton (36 lakh kg) of wood would be needed per day and again a few trains, each approximately 2-km long, to transport the wood.

Something to think about: they moved through the desert for 40 years.

What about water? Just enough to drink and wash-up a little, they would need 50 million litre each day and a freight train with tankers, approximately 19-km long, would be needed to bring the water.

There were only a few waterholes in the desert. How did they get enough water?

Another thing!

They had to pass through the Red Sea in one night! If they had a footpath where they walked two-two at a time, the line would be 1280-km long and it would take them 35 days and nights to pass through.

So, there must have been a path through the Red Sea of about 5-km wide for 5000 people to be able to walk beside each other in go.

Another problem: they had to camp each night. A camping sight of 1200 square meter was needed, that is 40-km wide and 48-km long.

Do you think Moses had it all worked out to the finest detail before the big move?

No, he was only an ordinary man with an unwavering faith in GOD! If God has called him, he will take care of everything. That is the faith you and I need to inherit the promises of God in our life.

You don’t just need faith; you need patience, which is another thing you need to inherit the promise. The promise will be inherited only in God’s time.

In fact, the test of your faith is your patience. And when your patience is perfect, you will lack nothing. That’s what we read in James 1:3,4

3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces [a]patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be [b]perfect and complete, lacking nothing.

Romans 8:24 - For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? 25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

How can you have this patience?

Remember, that God never forgets you. You become impatient when you think God forgot the promise. No, God never forgets His promise.

Hebrews 6:10 - For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

1. God hasn’t forgotten you.

The writer of Hebrews encourages them to not be discouraged because God hasn’t forgotten about them.

In Revelation 2 and 3, John brings letters to 7 churches in Asia. These 7 churches are examples of churches and God’s people today and God’s word to them. In each of those letters, there is a particular way in which Jesus begins his letter. He says, “I know… I know your works, I know your deeds…