A Very
Small Cloud
When Jesus saw their faith…Mark 2:5
• Little evidence. .
.
• Slight evidence. . .
• Microscopic evidence. . .
What
is your faith working on right now? There should never be a time when you
aren’t believing God for something. Don’t be discouraged if you can’t see any
signs of it coming into being. Elijah prayed for rain after a three year drought
in Israel. When he heard the rushing sound of rain in his spirit, he sent his
servant, Ahab, up to see if there were any signs of rain. After the seventh
visit up the mountain, Ahab reported seeing a cloud, the size of a man’s hand.
That small cloud was enough for Elijah to prepare for rain. (I Kings
18:41-44)
How
BIG must our small
clouds be before we believe?
The
amount of confidence we place in our small clouds will prove the strength of
our faith. Faith is the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1)
It’s
so important for us not to ignore the subtle signs that our faith is working.
We should ask God to help us recognize these subtleties. Once He shows them to us,
we got to hold on to them like the end results. We won’t be able to see these
hints if our thoughts are jam-packed with negativity. Remember, it’s the devil’s
job to con us out of what God is revealing.
Whose
report will you believe?
Rejoicing
over these understated clues is one way to give our faith the exercise that it
needs. However, we can’t always put our hopes in physical signs, sometimes
God’s Word is the only evidence that He’ll give us.
Just
because I said so!
God is not human,
that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he
speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill? (Numbers 23:19 NIV)
When
we know our prayers are aligned with God’s will, and we are obedient to His
Word, it’s time to move our faith onto another assignment because the one we
just prayed for—DONE!
ID your small
clouds and prepare for a rainfall!
I’m making a list of my small clouds right now.
© 2016 See you next week on Paulette Talks
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