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At some time in life, every person faces storms in the form of situations, circumstances, obstacles, problems and difficulties. The storms come to take you off the course God would have you run.

They come to deter you and to literally keep you from being all God wants you to be, from having all God wants you to have, and from doing all He wants you to do. Most important to you is to know that you're going to make it and to know how to make it as an overcomer.

How? Through faith.

Proving What We Believe
Here are three primary ways to release your faith.

  1. Believe the Word
    You release your faith by what you believe in your heart. Romans 10:17 says, "So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." When you hear the Word of the Lord, you believe it. Faith rises up.

    Faith is the substance of things you have hoped for. It's the evidence of things you cannot see. It's the title deed that you hold concerning those things which are unseen. You know you have them, because God's Word promises them to you.

  2. Speak the Word
    You release your faith by the words you speak. Second Corinthians 4:13 describes the "spirit of faith." "But since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, 'I believed and therefore I spoke,' we also believe and therefore speak." The spirit of faith is believing and speaking according to that which God has spoken.

    To get through the storms, you need to train your tongue to speak the right things when there's no storm. It is difficult to lasso your tongue and wrestle it under control after the storm hits. When the storm hits, many people run their mouth 90 miles an hour with doubt, unbelief, disaster, calamity and tragedy.

    Everything the doctors have said they repeat verbatim as if it came straight from God. Everything the world has said they pronounce as if it's an edict from Jesus Himself.

    Isaiah said, "Who has believed our report?" (Isa. 53:1). You must discipline your tongue to speak God's report. Proverbs 18:21 says, "Death and life are in the power of the tongue…." Proverbs 6:2 says, "You are snared by the words of your own mouth; you are taken by the words of your mouth."

    Jesus said, "…For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks" (Matt. 12:34). Get a hold on your tongue now! Make a decision that you're going to speak what God's Word says. Jesus said to Peter, "…Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat" (Luke 22:31).

    'I'm Going To Make It'
    I believe that's a revelation for every believer - that Satan is going to sift and find out what's really inside of us. According to Matthew 7, the storm is going to come against everyone. It's going to sift. What is deep on the inside of you will surface when the storm hits.

    We have people in our ministry and some of our church members who've gone through terrible financial storms. We've has an opportunity to pray with many of them. In one instance, the man said over and over, "I'm going to make it." It looked like the whole world was going to crash in. Problem after problem came, but he said, "I'm going to make it."

    HE DID!

    When the storm is raging, pick your nose up out of the water and breathe! Just hang on to what God has said and declare it out loud. Everything within your feeling realm may want to say what it looks like, but faith refuses to bow its knee to the system of this world. Faith won't compromise. It just keeps speaking what God said.

    Psalm 112:7-8 says that the man whose heart is fixed (steadfast) will not be moved when evil tidings come. He will not be afraid of evil tidings; his heart is steadfast, trusting in the Lord. His heart is established; he will not be afraid.

    When the evil report comes, if your heart is settled on what you believe, you can say, "My God is able. It is well with my soul."

  3. Act on the Word
    The third part of releasing your faith is acting upon what God says. There's a corresponding action with everything you're speaking. You have to act like the Word is true.

    How would the disciples have acted in the midst of the storm? They would have awakened Jesus and said, "Jesus, we're going to stop this storm. Do You want to watch us?"

    They could have stood up in the boat and acted on what they believed. As you begin to act on what you believe, God will give you specific direction of the corresponding action. It may not always be the same thing. It is Spirit-directed faith.
The Israelites had to listen for God's direction in every battle they faced. In taking Jericho, they had to march around the city once a day for six days and seven times on the seventh day (Joshua 6:1-5). That was their act of faith. But in the next city, the action of faith was different.

Source: Overcoming The Storms Of Life by Billy Joe Daughtery
Excerpt permission granted by Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers

Author Biography

Billy Joe Daugherty
Web site: Victory Christian Center
 
Billy Joe Daugherty was founder and pastor of Victory Christian Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was also the founder of Victory Christian School, Victory Bible Institute and Victory World Missions Training Center.
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