Believe for It

Do you need encouragement today?

Have you been standing in strong faith for an answer to prayer … or a miracle … or even a breakthrough in your life?

I have several issues in my life that only God can solve.

Believe me when I say … I know what impossible looks like!

But what looks impossible to me … is never impossible to the God that I serve.

“For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Luke 1:37

He is well-able …abundantly able … incredibly able … to right a wrong … to move a mountain … to part the Red Sea …to soften a hard heart … to heal your pain.

If anyone is overqualified to revolutionize the preposterous into the likely … it is God!

If anyone has the unction and the power to transform the inconceivable into the conceivable …it is God!

Not only does God have the power to do a miracle in your life … He also has the desire to do a miracle in your life!

Isn’t that the most amazing news you have ever heard?!

“O LORD, You have heard the desire of the humble; You will strengthen their heart, You will incline Your ear.”

Psalm 10:17

As I was praying this summer … I felt that the Lord was encouraging me to believe for a miracle by Thanksgiving.

Now … I certainly don’t mean to put God on a human timetable … but I did experience a nudge of the Holy Spirit asking me, “What would you like me to do for you before Thanksgiving 2022?”

As I prayerfully made a list of “my” impossibilities … I again heard the sweet whisper of the Holy Spirit say to me, “Would you like a Thanksgiving miracle?”

As the powerful yet gentle Holy Spirit continued to speak with me, I had an inner urge to begin to thank the Lord for what He would do by Thanksgiving!

I began to thank the Giver of all miracles in advance for my Thanksgiving miracle!

I decided to be thankful before there was even a reason to be thankful … because the truth is …He is enough to be thankful for, isn’t He?!

I began to thank Him that nothing is too difficult for Him … that He holds all the power in heaven and in earth …and that His ways are higher than my ways.

I began to worship Him for His goodness … for His kindness …and for His wisdom.

And … I began to thank Him that He is a miracle-working God!

And …do you know what else I began to do?

I began to thank Him in advance for my Thanksgiving miracle!

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.”

A.W. Tozer

Why would I do that? Why would I thank Him for something that has not yet happened?

I do it because I am a woman of faith!

I do it because I choose to walk by faith and not by sight!

I do it because I have decided NOT to throw away my confidence in Who He is and what He is able to do!

“Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.”

Hebrews 10:35

I do it because I believe that there is power in the Name of Jesus!

I do it because I serve a mountain-moving … chain-breaking …way-making God!

I will believe for my miracle before I see it in the natural.

I am not moved by what I see. I am moved only by what I believe.”

Smith Wigglesworth

I believe that when I stand in faith … it honors God!

And I will honor Him with every breath that I take … will you?

This is my call to you today … will you believe for your Thanksgiving miracle?

Will you?

Will you believe for your prodigal to come home by Thanksgiving?

Will you believe for a baby to be conceived by Thanksgiving?

Will you believe for the chains of addiction to fall by Thanksgiving?

Would you be brave enough … courageous enough … to fill in the blank?

I will believe for ___________________________________________ by Thanksgiving 2022!

And in the meantime …perhaps the lyrics to this well-loved song would encourage your heart as you decide whether or not you will worship Him before the miracle.

“They say this mountain can’t be moved

They say these chains will never break

But they don’t know You like we do

There is power in Your name

We’ve heard that there is no way through

We’ve heard the tide will never change

They haven’t seen what You can do

There is power in Your name

So much power in Your name

Move the unmovable

Break the unbreakable

God we believe

God we believe for it

From the impossible

We’ll see a miracle

God we believe

God we believe for it”

Cece Winans

Will you believe for it?

This is an updated edition of a post originally published on Carol McLeod Ministries

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About the Author

Carol McLeod is a best-selling author and popular speaker at women’s conferences and retreats, where she teaches the Word of God with great joy and enthusiasm. Carol encourages and empowers women with passionate and practical biblical messages mixed with her own special brand of hope and humor. Carol is a prolific author and loves digging for truth in the Word of God. Carol writes a weekly blog, “Joy For the Journey,” that has been named in the Top 50 Faith Blogs for Women. Carol also writes a weekly column for “Ministry Today.” Carol has been married to her college sweetheart, Craig, for 41 years and is the mother of five children in heaven and five children on earth. Graduates of Oral Roberts University, Craig and Carol have spent the past 38 years pastoring churches across America.

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