Erasing Doubt

# 619 - Today's Du-votional comes from: Mr 11:23,24 "For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be removed and be cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. "Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.

Whenever you see a “therefore” in Scripture, you need to go back a verse or two to see what the “therefore” is “there for!” In this case, Jesus is saying “because doubt is absent in the heart, the obstacle of unbelief has been removed, and we can pray with confidence. But how do we get there? How do we remove doubt?

The answer is WE don't. God is the One who gets us there. Faith is always HIS gift. However there are some things we can do to strengthen our faith. The most important thing we can do is to get into His Word and then actually put it into practice in our daily living. The more we trust God and His Word as we apply it to our daily living, His faithfulness will become more and more evident.

After all, Nu 23:19 says,"God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?”

God uses His proven record of faithfulness and His Word to remove our doubts. But we won't know of that record if we don't get into His Word, and we won't taste of that record until we put that Word into practice.

Father, help us to take that leap necessary to trust You and Your Word in our daily living. Help us to keep our eyes open to the opportunities to put Your Word into practice.