Romans 4:19-20 (NKJV)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnd not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead\u2026and the deadness of Sarah\u2019s womb. He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I don\u2019t understand this man Abraham; I am actually awed by him. I don\u2019t understand how he could still believe God despite the deadness of his own body and the deadness of Sarah\u2019s womb. This is unthinkable; simply unimaginable. What was he believing God for if he knew his body was as good as dead and he knew his wife\u2019s womb was dead? What was he expecting God to do and how did he think God would do it? I actually don\u2019t understand what was going through his mind and his heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NLT says, \u201cAbraham never wavered in believing God\u2019s promise. In fact, his faith grew stronger, and in this he brought glory to God.\u201d In the midst of the impossibility of the situation, his faith grew stronger. How can your faith grow stronger when everything looked more and more impossible? When God saw that Abraham did not waver or shake in faith, God was very pleased with him. Oh! That I may have the faith of Abraham, and rather than waver at my impossibilities, that I may grow stronger in believing God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOh Lord, help my unbelief. Help me look beyond my circumstances to You, the God of impossibilities. You do the unimaginable and You expect me to believe You, despite the immediate scenarios around me. Lord, help me believe. Amen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Romans 4:19-20 (NKJV) \u201cAnd not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead\u2026and the deadness of Sarah\u2019s womb. He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God\u201d I don\u2019t understand this man Abraham; I am actually awed by him. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-reflections-from-romans"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Reflections-from-Romans.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2831,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829\/revisions\/2831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}