Is
doubt good or bad? Yes & No! Doubt is good when we allow God to use our
doubt to honestly examine our lives & let Him then lead us to faith in Him.
Doubt is bad when we allow the doubt to lead to not believing & trusting
God & we move away, not toward Him.
So,
what can enable us to us to allow God to use doubt to lead us to Him?
There
is an insurance commercial that takes about the three P’s of insurance, which
according to the commercial are price, price, & price. Well, lets take a
look at the four P’s of overcoming our doubt of God.
In
Luke 1 Gabriel is sent to tell Mary that she will become pregnant & become
the mother of the Messiah. In verse 34 Mary says to Gabriel, “How will this be,
since I am a virgin?” Mary is doubting. When Gabriel explains how God will
accomplish this, Mary replies to him & says in verse 38, “Behold I am the
servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.”
We
first must trust the person of God. If we don’t trust who God is, we will never
be able to fully trust anything else about God. We must believe that God is
good & His will is always right.
Raise
the Roof & Remove the Walls is about trusting that the person of God is
good & His will is always for our benefit.
Also,
in Luke 1 we read about Zechariah’s encounter with an angel & the angel
telling Zechariah that he & Elizabeth would have a son in their old age
(beyond childbearing age) & they that were to name their son John.
Zechariah doubted what the angel told him & Zechariah was unable to speak. When
their son was born & they asked what his name was, Zechariah wrote that his
name is John & Zechariah was then able to speak again.
We
then must trust God’s plan & purpose. God had a plan for John to be born to
a couple who naturally could not have children & that John coming through
them was a miracle & God would be gloried through the birth. God had a
purpose also to bring John, who would be the forerunner of the Messiah, to prepare
the way for Jesus.
Raise
the Roof & Remove the Walls is about trusting God’s plan & purpose
& cooperating with Him so that He can use us to accomplish His will.
In
Mark 9 Jesus has experienced His transfiguration & has come down &
encounters a situation where a father has brought his demon possessed son to
the disciples to have the demon expelled, but they could not do it. In verse 22
the father says to Jesus “if He could do anything”. Jesus responds in verse 23
by saying, “If you can! All things all possible for one who believes.” Then in
verse 24 the father says, “I believe; help my unbelief!”
We
then must trust God’s power. The disciples could not expel the demon because
they were trusting themselves to do it. Jesus is telling the father to trust
His power & the father is honest & wants to believe & cries to
Jesus to enable him to believe. Jesus expels the demon & heals the boy.
Raise
the Roof & Remove the Walls is about trusting God’s power & believing
that all things are possible when we place our faith in God & not
ourselves.
The
four P’s of overcoming doubt & letting it lead you to faith in God:
Trust
the Person of God
Trust
the Plan of God
Trust
the Purpose of God
Trust
the Power of God
Trusting God & Raising
the Roof & Removing the Walls,
Joe
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