DECEMBER 11

DON’T YOU BELIEVE WHAT YOU PREACH?

JOHN 6:29


“ Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.” (John 6:29)

One time, in an emergency situation, a widow came forward and said that God told her to empty her savings. I was hesitant to receive that offering, but then she piped up and said, “What’s the matter? Don’t you believe what you preach?” Ouch! That was some of the hardest money to receive I’ve ever experienced. Yet in a manner of thirty days, she came right back up to the platform, shook her finger in my face, and declared, “Let me tell you what God did for me!”

Her deceased husband had worked for the railroad. One of his former co-workers came by and asked her if she’d heard about the new benefits. He further explained that the railroad wasn’t telling people about these benefits unless they knew how to look for them. She told him that he hadn’t heard about the benefits. The man checked into it and as a result, her benefit package increased by $400 a month as long as she lived, plus she received a lump some of $5000 in cash. Her little meager savings that she’d emptied out was more than doubled in return. She knew that if she took care of God’s house, He’d take care of hers. This woman took God at his Word!

There’s a valuable lesson in this. God’s Word works- every time! “So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it” (Is. 55:11). God has done His part. The answer to the difficult is in the simple. He’s given us His Word so we may prosper and be in health (3 John 2). Our part is simply to believe Him and act in faith! (BN)