I want to finish my race in the Promised Land, not in the wilderness. You too? Then we have to cash in our fear and complacency and spend all we have on the only ticket out: BELIEF. Faith is the only thing that will ever close the gap between our theology and our reality.

Jacob, why do you say, and Israel, why do you assert: "My way is hidden from the LORD, and my claim is ignored by my God"? Isaiah 40:27

Misunderstandings can often result as we exercise enough faith to do what we're convinced is God's will.

herself in powerlessness to the ridicule of the world. We can't blame the devil. For the most part we've dumbed-down New Testament Christianity and accepted our reality as theology rather than biblical theology as our reality. We've reversed the standard, walking by sight and not by faith. We

You love Him, though you have not seen Him. And though not seeing Him now, you believe in Him. 1 Peter 1:8

Beloved, no one, no matter how brilliant, persuasive, or credentialed, should have the right to take away our hope. The God we serve is able (Dan. 3:17). Everything is possible (Mark 9:23). Nothing is impossible (Luke 1:37).

I believe the more we "see" God at work, the more we'll believe; and the more we believe, the more we're liable to see.

I fear we are a dreadfully unbelieving generation, particularly the portion of us in the prosperous West. Reports of miracles come out of many Third World countries where all they seem to have is their faith.

Blessed is she who has believed that what the Lord has said to her will be accomplished!" (Luke 1:45)

We must cease to accept the visible as if it's the only possible solution and start believing what God says over what man sees.

Promised Land theology becomes an earthbound reality only to those who cash in their fear and complacency for the one ticket out of their long-inhabited wilderness.

I wouldn't encourage anyone to believe in a God of heaven if we had no evidence to support that He exists as the Bible says He does. The reason I teach belief in God is that, again and again, I have found Him to be astoundingly believable.