Andrew
Pauline Matanda
ACCORDING to Romans 4:17-18, we call Abraham “Father”, not because he got God’s attention by living like a saint, but because God made something out of Abraham when he was a nobody.
Isn’t that what we have always read in the Scripture, God saying to Abraham, “I set you up as father of many peoples”?
Abraham was first named “Father” and then became a father because he dared to trust God to do what only He could do — raise the dead to life, with a word, make something out of nothing.
When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed, anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he could not do, but on what God said he would do.
So, he was made the father of a multitude of people. God himself said to him, “You’re going to have a big family, Abraham!”
God speaks of things that are non-existent in the physical realm as if they already exist. He lives outside time and physical space — in the limitless realm of the spirit.
When He calls you, He does not speak of your smallness but your greatness.
He calls you what He has made you to be. When you agree with Him, He says you are a man or woman of faith. He credits this to you, as He did to Abraham.
When He approached Gideon, as we see in Judges 6:11-13, He called him a mighty man of valour, a mighty warrior, even though Gideon was hiding from the Midianites.
He told him to go and deliver Israel from the hand of Midian.
So, whatever God says about you, believe and act on it.
I speak into your life and say greatness is yours. Success is yours. You are a mighty man or woman of valour. Get up and get going, the Lord is with you.
The work of your hands is blessed. Mercy and favour are your portions in Christ Jesus. Amen
Bongani Ndlovu
Online Reporter