Believer's Voice of Victory

Yesterday morning I was flipping through channels, trying to find something to watch. We were without our cable box (they gave us the wrong one for our area 9 months ago when we moved in, and it just now started acting up...go figure!), so I had to start at 2 and work my way up. The Believer's Voice of Victory was on channel 2...and something caught my attention, so I watched the program. Kenneth Copeland and Creflo Dollar were talking about being blessed. They continued this morning...so I made sure to watch.

The first thing that struck me was when Copeland repeated the verse where Jesus says, "I am the vine and you are the branches..." He stopped there and commented that the branch's job is to just hang on. The vine supplies all the branch needs to produce fruit.

That's amazing...it's my responsibility to hang on to Jesus. Not to try to figure out how to produce fruit...or how I'm gonna be fed. I just have to receive what He gives me and the rest happens.

As I write that, I think I've GOT to have some other responsibility somewhere. But I guess that goes back to being like a child. God will tell/show me what I need to do and when...I just have to obey.

The other thing Dollar brought up at the end of the show was the fact that Abraham questioned God when He said He would bless him. Abraham asked God how...and God told him...then A asked Him how he would KNOW.

That's the thing...knowing. You have to start with believing...make the choice to believe...but eventually you will KNOW. You just have to keep making the choice to believe.

In Hebrews it says that Abraham didn't stagger. So what I see is that taking our concerns to God and allowing HIM to respond to and meet them is NOT staggering.