The Sight-Lines Of Faith

From today’s devotionals…



God is just as interested in how you achieve a goal as He is in the goal itself. Whatever your goal may be – financial, physical, spiritual, family – you must ask yourself this question: Is my goal’s supreme purpose to glorify God?

Since that is the purpose for which you were created, it follows that your goals must reflect that basic purpose. Sift your goals through prayer, common sense, and biblical wisdom to see if your objective’s chief purpose is to honour God.

Help me set goals that please You, dear Lord. In all I do – both in this day and in the coming year – let my chief purpose be to glorify You. Help me set goals, then live by faith.



How do you respond when presented with a challenge that calls for a surge of faith in God? Hesitantly? Tentatively? Fearfully? Optimistically?

The key to breaking the faith barrier and anchoring our trust in God is an exalted view of God Himself.

“But I thought to have more faith, I had to work at it more,” you say. You do, but your work is to see God for Who He really is, not to struggle to obtain more faith or have a more positive mind-set.

When the disciples thirsted to have more faith, Jesus told them all that was necessary was faith the size of a mustard seed. “Use what you have,” Jesus was saying, “and your faith will grow in the process.”

We use what faith we have, as little as it may seem, by magnifying the heart’s view of God. When Moses was scared to go to Pharaoh, God exploded Moses’ worries with the revelation of Himself: “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you’” (Ex.3:14 NASB).

We grow in faith by seeing God in a new light. Our faith is as big as our God. If your notion of God is grand, your faith will soar. If it is little, your faith will sag. How big is your God? See Him as He is, and the faith barrier will shatter before you.

Dear God, let my faith soar. Grow faith in me that is as big as You are. O God, I want to see You as You are. Shatter the obstacles of fear, doubt, disobedience, and faithlessness in my life. I want to break through the faith barrier.




Lord, reveal Yourself to me in a new and powerful and awesome way, this day and every day, I pray…