Trust Him fully
Trust Him fully
(Doubt - The Sin That God Hates Most)
David Wilkerson
Why is God taking these people out of Israel and putting them into a promised land? The Bible says very clearly that this is the smallest nation, the most insignificant of all nations and people. They’re just a small handful and God chooses them (Deuteronomy 7:6-7).
Why is He bringing them here to a testing place? Why is He gonna take them into the land of Canaan? Is it because He just wants to give them new houses? He’s got a special people He wants to just bless. They’re going to inherit vineyards and milk and honey, and they’re gonna be able to sit idol in pleasure. And they’re gonna just be able to sit there and praise and worship God and offer sacrifices from generation to generation? No.
God loves the world …
John 3:16
the Bible says.
God loved the world just as much then as He loves now. God was love from the beginning. The Bible says prophetically all the prophets knew that the law would go out from Jerusalem, that God was trying to raise up missionaries with a testimony. He was trying to build an army that He could use, that His truth could go out through the whole that known world.
They were not going into Canaan land just for their own comfort. They weren’t going to go there to show that all of the goodness and grace of God could absorb themselves. Not at all. That’s not why God saved you. That’s not why He saved me.
God is always searching and looking for an army, looking for a people that are tested and tried and approven and faithful. Because he’s not just going out and preaching
an unproven gospel.
Have you ever proved the gospel? You can’t believe the gospel you preach.
God is trying to produce something in this people. God want they’re standing on the brink of a catastrophe. They’re standing on the brink of a disaster, a crisis like they’ve never known.
You say,
“Does God expect these people to trust Him when the army is coming down and everything looks impossible?
God expects them to trust and believe Him and not doubt their situation?”
Yes. Absolutely.
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Hebrews 11:6
God is trying to produce a people with faith and confidence in Him to become messengers, tested and tried. But you see God can’t do anything, where there is no faith, where there is all doubt. God in flesh couldn’t do it and wouldn’t do it.
Jesus couldn’t do mighty miracles there because of their doubt and their unbelief. (Matthew 13:58)
He rebuked the Red sea, the Scripture says,
it was dried up and He saved them.
He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
(Psalms 106:9-10)
Then they believed His words.
Then sang they His praises.
(Psalms 106:12)
After you’ve got good report, after you’ve got victory and after you’ve seen deliverance,
anybody can sing.
The Bible says,
Then they believed His words …
(Psalms 106:12)
Folks, miserably failed because the very next verse reads they soon forgot His works and waited not for His counsel.
(Psalms 106:13)
Then they despised pleasant land; they believed not His word.
(Psalms 106:24)
I believe God is still searching for that people, that people who will be His greatest evangelistic tool. God is not looking for some highly educated seminarian to take the gospel to the world, He’s not looking for mega churches, that multiplied thousands of people, who’ve never been tested and tried. They don’t look at reality and then when the hard times come, when the testing times come. There are no resources. They’ve nothing to draw on.
God can’t use that kind of a people to be a testimony to a lost world. Not at all. He is not looking for that. Gideon had a call for the nation to come and fight the Midianites and many thousands respond to his call, got down finally three hundred tested men. God is not looking for some great powerful religious organization.
He is looking for individuals. He is looking for a man and woman of God, who have been through the flood, who have been through the fire, and have been tested, and come through with faith, tested as gold, tried in the fire.
I wanna tell you the world is looking, the world is watching for people like that, not just throwing the Scriptures around, not just trying to get everybody to come to their church.
But coming on the job when everybody on that job knows, you going through the trial of your life, you’re facing calamity. You’re going to work even though you are broken, you have a heart that you can hardly stand the day, you’ve been rocked by hard times.
Please don’t tell me that you making a commitment to faith unless you’re also making three other commitments.
A commitment to this Word daily
A commitment to your knees, so that you’re not in situational faith at all.
But you’re developing relationship to relationship faith
And also you have come to understand how much God loves you.
You know how I’m convinced of His love on my knees and in this book. I read of His love. Then the Holy Spirit reveals it to me in the secret closet of prayer.
Come to Psalms 121.
The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
(Psalms 121:5-7)
God said,
“I’m your keeper. I’m your preserver.
I’ll keep you. I’ll preserve you.
Trust me.”