SCRIPTURE:

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. (2 Timothy 1:7 NKJV)

Job said “For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me…” (Job 3:25). The Word of God tells us to “fear not”…God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” (2 Timothy 1:7 NKJV). Job returned to faith and God restored to him twice as much as what he had before. He got double for his trouble.

Real faith, or the God kind of faith says “If God says it’s true, it is true.” It needs no physical evidence that would satisfy the senses…it acts on the Word of God independent of sense evidence. This faith is much like Abraham had when God told him that he and his barren wife Sarah were going to have a child. “He considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb” (Romans 4:19).

Real faith is built on the Word of God alone.

PRAYER:

Dear God, I have no fear but walk in love and power with a sound mind. I need no physical evidence that Your promise will be manifest in my life. My trust is in You. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.

This devotional is excerpted from Bill Winston’s must-read book, The God Kind of Faith. To order your copy now, click here.