GETTING TO THE LIMIT OF FAITH
There are problems that can be solved by fasting, prayer and chains of prayer. The Bible teaches us to do that when the case is a matter that only requires perseverance. However, there are other situations that people go through where these 3 weapons of faith will not be enough. Only sacrifice. Why? Because the sacrifice takes a person to the limit of their faith. You don’t get to the limit of your faith only by fasting, praying or making chains of prayer. But you do get to the limit of your faith when you sacrifice.
Sacrifice guarantees the solution because it takes a person to the limit of their faith. Just like the case of Abraham: He had a situation that brought shame to him (he was childless)just like the situation of many people in the church. God did not ask him to pray or fast. Abraham was not a man of prayers and fasting. He was a man of action. Nothing would have happened if he was a man of prayer and fasting but disobeyed God’s voice.
Many people in church pray and fast but they don’t get to the limit of faith. All our prayers and fasting will be useless if we say ‘no’ to God when he asks for our Isaac. Abraham never said ‘no’ to God. He would never be our father of faith and become the victorious man he was if he refused to give Isaac to God.
There are things that can be replaced (house, car, clothes, jewelry) but not a son. Another son cannot replace the one that was lost. What God asked Abraham could not be replaced by man. What Abraham gave was “Irreplaceable”.
God asks us for what we have in order to give us what we don’t have. Unbelieving people say ‘no’ to God because they believe the valuable things they have are irreplaceable. They claim to believe in God, pray and fast, but refuse to sacrifice. They hold on to things but these things don’t bring them peace, health, family nor life.
In this campaign, God asks you to give your Isaac so He can give you what you don’t have and He guarantees that to you through swearing by Himself!
Bishop Romualdo - Argentina
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