Sometimes we just don’t feel it.
Don’t feel the love.
Don’t feel the hope.
Don’t feel the freedom.
We are told God loves us, provides for us, but the skepticism is high. We even agree outwardly but inside we know our hearts and faith are far from believing those words we hear from the pulpit week after week.
We walk around in a fog of stress and burden. The reasons are many. And when it comes to finances, it is no different.
Believing God cares for our financial details? Believing He provides?
Hope for today. Freedom for tomorrow. Really? The More Than Enough motto is exactly that. Is it too hard to swallow?
We are just like Israel was in the land of Egypt. Moses came declaring hope and freedom from 400 years of slavery but they just couldn’t believe it at first. Moses spoke to Israel declaring that God would be their God and bring them out from the burden of their enslavement, into the land He promised their father Abraham.
Their response?
Unbelief. Skepticism.
And why did they respond that way?
The story says they did not “heed Moses, because of anguish of spirit and cruel bondage.”
Their years of enslavement, hardship, pain and loss made it hard to believe this voice, speaking just words.
Does your anguish and pain, your enslavement to debt, and the world’s ways of doing life, leave you in unbelief, just as it did for Israel?
God knows it does. He knew then, and He knows it now. Israel had forgotten the God of their Fathers, because they felt forgotten by Him. They didn’t know it, but their story was about to change.
He answered their years of lament and tears, by showing Israel and Egypt the power and wonder of God. After a series of powerful acts, the Israelites were freed. No longer was it simply the words of God: it was the acts of God. The acts gave power to the words of freedom.
Your story is the same.
God wants you to know there is hope for today and freedom for tomorrow. As you step toward Him to be free, as you lament and ask, and as you wait on Him in expectation, He will answer you. He will answer both with words and acts of love and kindness and power that will lead you out of your own enslavement to the land of hope, joy, love and promise.
Steps to renewed faith and hope
God is full of truth and His Word echoes all that you are in Him. This road to freedom takes time, learning and training, just as it did for Israel. Finding your freedom from slavery involves seeking Him.
- Read the truth from God’s Word and find out what He says about you and your story, Himself and His story. He is declaring His truth over you, just as Moses did over Israel.
- Confess your skepticism and unbelief. It is a process to believe God. Be patient with God, and with yourself.
- Look to Jesus, the author and perfector of your faith. Meditate on the work of the Cross – His suffering, His death and His resurrection.
- Wait on God. Lament and cry if need be. Give Him the details and trust Him for practical answers to resolve the issues.
- Wait on God, with expectations. Then wait on Him again, with thanksgiving and praise. He will act on your behalf.
The men and women at More Than Enough have been called to declare God’s truth and help you find your way to hope and freedom, rediscovering belief and trust in God for your financial and spiritual journey. For scriptures, advice, bible study recommendations, one-on-one coaching or more information, contact More Than Enough.
Rebecca van Noppen is a teacher, home educator, writer, and More Than Enough blogger, who happens to be married to a financial coach. A lover of Jesus, she is on a journey of surrender, kindness, and generosity.