Matthew 14:28 - "And Peter answered him, "Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water." He said, "Come." So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus."
Sometimes in our own minds we justify waiting in the boat, not realizing it is just our natural mind wanting to know every detail. Thinking to ourselves, "Well, maybe I ought to just sit in the boat a little bit longer – after all, we want to have wisdom." Do you think Peter did that? No. He got out of the boat of his comfort zone before his natural feelings could jump in to dictate the next step.
Logical Lies Feel Responsible:
• "I'm just being realistic."
• "We have to look at the facts."
• "That's the situation."
Facts are not the problem. The problem is when facts become the highest authority in how we think and what we choose to do.
"For we walk by faith, not by sight" (2 Corinthians 5:7). Faith doesn't deny reality; it simply refuses to let it have the final word. Logic says, "This is impossible." Faith says, "With God, all things are possible."
When we reduce our thinking to what we can measure or predict, we shrink our capacity for breakthrough. Responsibility becomes an excuse for limitation. Sometimes what we call wisdom is simply agreement with only what we can see.
Zechariah and Elizabeth were old. Somewhere along the way, Zechariah likely stopped praying for a son, not out of rebellion, not out of bitterness, but out of realism because of natural circumstances and limitations. And yet, Heaven did not forget.
When Gabriel spoke, he did not say, "God has decided to bless you." He said, "Your prayer has been heard"—past tense, already received, already known, which means this: The prayer Zechariah no longer carried, God still did. The words he had stopped forming, God had not stopped remembering.
The instruction was specific: "You are to call him John." Names in Scripture are never random. John means "Yahweh is gracious." So, every time Zechariah spoke his son's name, he would be declaring, "God has been gracious"—even in the waiting, even in the silence, even in the years when nothing seemed to happen.
You may release a prayer, but God does not lose it. God does not forget a prayer surrendered to Him in honest, vulnerable faith.
ALBERT FINCH MINISTRY
Statement Of Faith Nameless & Faceless Ministries - Statement of Faith
Ministry Phone: 281-396-4379
Sometimes in our own minds we justify waiting in the boat, not realizing it is just our natural mind wanting to know every detail. Thinking to ourselves, "Well, maybe I ought to just sit in the boat a little bit longer – after all, we want to have wisdom." Do you think Peter did that? No. He got out of the boat of his comfort zone before his natural feelings could jump in to dictate the next step.
Logical Lies Feel Responsible:
• "I'm just being realistic."
• "We have to look at the facts."
• "That's the situation."
Facts are not the problem. The problem is when facts become the highest authority in how we think and what we choose to do.
"For we walk by faith, not by sight" (2 Corinthians 5:7). Faith doesn't deny reality; it simply refuses to let it have the final word. Logic says, "This is impossible." Faith says, "With God, all things are possible."
When we reduce our thinking to what we can measure or predict, we shrink our capacity for breakthrough. Responsibility becomes an excuse for limitation. Sometimes what we call wisdom is simply agreement with only what we can see.
Zechariah and Elizabeth were old. Somewhere along the way, Zechariah likely stopped praying for a son, not out of rebellion, not out of bitterness, but out of realism because of natural circumstances and limitations. And yet, Heaven did not forget.
When Gabriel spoke, he did not say, "God has decided to bless you." He said, "Your prayer has been heard"—past tense, already received, already known, which means this: The prayer Zechariah no longer carried, God still did. The words he had stopped forming, God had not stopped remembering.
The instruction was specific: "You are to call him John." Names in Scripture are never random. John means "Yahweh is gracious." So, every time Zechariah spoke his son's name, he would be declaring, "God has been gracious"—even in the waiting, even in the silence, even in the years when nothing seemed to happen.
You may release a prayer, but God does not lose it. God does not forget a prayer surrendered to Him in honest, vulnerable faith.
ALBERT FINCH MINISTRY
Statement Of Faith Nameless & Faceless Ministries - Statement of Faith
Ministry Phone: 281-396-4379
