The MHTRA Mandate: What the World Needs Now is a Womb-an!

What do you do when you feel that all hope is lost? What do you do when panic and fear creep in and causes you to feel anxiety about your future? Or when your thoughts start going down a negative spiral which leads to nothing except an abyss of nowhere? YOU FACE YOUR FEAR WITH FAITH! You stand up to that bully of fear, anxiety, worry and negativity and you stare it in the face, and tell it to go in Jesus’ Name…we look at our situation, and we call things that are not as though they were…we encourage ourselves in the Lord just like David did…we actually have no other choice really…we either go on in faith, taking one little baby step in front of the other, or what else? Give up? Giving up is not really an option. There is nothing left for us there. My favorite passage in the Bible, I would call my life verse, is from John chapter 6. In this chapter Jesus has just finished teaching his disciples about how through faith in Him, they are saved, using the analogy of his blood and his flesh, saying “ He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.” (Ref 69) There were many disciples who were listening to this teaching and had a hard time accepting it so they deserted him. Jesus turns to the twelve and asked, “You do not want to go away also, do you?" And Simon Peter answered Him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.” Peter recognized that there was no life, no hope, nothing to go back to apart from Jesus…that is so true because Jesus himself IS life! And apart from Him, there really is no real life.

Through our faith in Jesus Christ, the barren places in our lives become fruitful; the dead things that He chooses are brought back to life. He is the Way-maker when there seems to be no way, the Promise-keeper when it seems that all hope is lost; He is the one that sheds light on all of the dark places in our lives. Jesus brings life to our seemingly dark situations. Even when Abraham and Sarah were far beyond the age that it is medically possible to conceive, they still believed that God would be true to His promise to them that they would have a son. God credited Abraham with righteousness because of his faith. “ Even when there was no reason for hope, Abraham kept hoping—believing that he would become the father of many nations. For God had said to him, “That’s how many descendants you will have!” (Ref70) Abraham hoped against all hope…even though everything in the physical told him it would not be possible to have his promised son, he made a choice to trust God because he knew that God’s promise was as good as done. He knew one way or another, somehow, it would get done. The “how” is up to God; the choice to stand firm and believe is up to us. “ And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she considered him faithful who had made the promise.” (Ref71) Sara also didn’t know how God would make it happen, but she continued to believe, she continued to hunger and have the desire to be fruitful…and one day, finally, when she was ninety years old, God’s promise to her and Abraham was fulfilled. She had her son, Isaac, and through Isaac she became the mother of many nations: “her name will be Sarah. I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.” (Ref71)

When barrenness and desolation are staring you in the face, you open your mouth and you start declaring to your situation how big your God is, instead of talking about how impossible your situation is. You start speaking to whatever impossible situation, whatever problem, whatever obstacle, whatever is overwhelming you…literally open your mouth and say “Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain! And he shall bring forth the capstone with shouts of ‘grace, grace to it!’” (Ref72) Jesus says “Truly, I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” (Ref73) We call things that are not as though they were (Ref74); we speak about our present circumstance as though what we are hoping for and believing for has already come to pass…it’s an act of faith; and when we know that God has promised these things to us, this is not just something we will on our own into existence so we know we will be blessed and we can have the confidence to stand firm on His promise.