A Special Phone Tree Series on Confronting Your Faith
“…yet will I trust in Him (I will hope in Him)…” – Job 13:15
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Do you trust Me?
The year of my BIG S-T-R-E-T-C-H, 2011 to be exact, was the year of “have you considered my servant Kim.” It was a year of great grace and much growth. Any and every challenge imaginable seemed to come my way – in my personal walk, in my relationships with others, and in my professional life. Little did I know that my 2011 struggles would lead me toward a direct confrontation with my faith and a trust challenge of extreme magnitude. As I headed into 2012, however, I soon realized that the LORD had a divine plan in place meant to steer me toward the question – “Do you trust Me?”
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Am I brave enough to answer His question?
The obvious answer to this Spirit-inspired question was yes. But beyond the obvious yes, what existed? What was my faith all about? I spoke about having it. I taught lessons about living with it. I prayed about it. But what evidence did I have to show that I had a yes-I-trust-You-God kind of unconditional faith. Had I demonstrated an unwavering faith in the face of the countless injustices and Job-esque trials that I had dealt with in 2011? I was ready to find out what my real faith was all about.
After a gut-punching year, 2012 rolled around, coming forth as a year of Jubilee. This new year, which is to be the year of my emancipation from that which is unholy, unrighteous and unjust, was heralded in as the time for my restoration and rebuilding as it relates to my faith. I knew a radical transformation would be taking place where my trust and dependency on God was concerned. I did not know how it would come forth, but I knew that it would. As such, God presented a Word to me that would change the course of my life and alter the way I chose to look at my dependency on Him.
The life-giving Word that He gave me was reach. Beyond that reach came a test that required and continuously requires blind faith and total trust in the One who is enough.
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Do you trust Me enough to be enough?
In the days after The Day After the Next Day journey I began walking, I vividly recall having a conversation with the LORD about the direction He was leading me in. He knew the ways I was to take (Job 23:10), but the question was did I trust Him enough to get me to the place He wanted me to be. Did I trust Him enough to be enough? And now, since my emancipation proclamation, do I trust Him enough to be utterly, entirely, totally, and completely dependent on Him for my everything?
My answer…YES!
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Confronting Your Faith Truth #1: You must trust God beyond your capacity to trust. This requires an extreme dependency on the Spirit of God who dwells within you.
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Q4U: When God takes the time to show you your real faith, what is your response to Him?
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Reach(ing) 2012…Upward, Inward, and Outward
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Join me next week as I talk about the gift of transparency and learning to look beyond the immediate.
