Getting to the root of all doubt is important, for the scripture tells us that if we doubt we are going to go without in life.  God wants us to have all the confidence so that when we believe for something it comes to pass.  I have discovered that if you can get to the root of all doubt you can stop it from getting into your heart.

In Mark 11:23 and James 1:6 the word doubt is a compound word, Dia which means through or by the means, and Krino which means condemn. In other words, it is by the means of condemnation all doubt begins to come into our hearts and stop God’s blessings from happening.

If we are not grounded in grace we will say to ourselves, “I doubt God is going to give this to me because I lost my temper this week or because I had a lustful thought”, and we start to think when we approach God that we need to bring a time card and prove to him we earned whatever we ask for.  The truth of the matter is, Jesus paid the price for everything we might need in life so when we approach God we are coming with Jesus’ time card.  Whatever He is deserving of I am also deserving of, not because I deserve it but by him imparting His righteousness in my life.  Today, dare to believe for what He earned for us on the cross and dare to believe for what He paid for and in doing so your joy will be made full and God will be glorified in your life.

“Doubt” is a bad word. In the language of the Christian, it really should be seen as a profanity. Does that seem a little extreme to you? Well, it shouldn’t! To define the word, ‘doubt’ means to “be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe; to distrust; to be uncertain about something; be undecided in opinion or belief.” As people of faith, I hope you can see why I think this is such a lethal mindset to the Christian walk.

In Matthew 13, we see Jesus coming to his hometown. The people who witnessed Jesus grow up from childhood, who now stood before them preaching and teaching with authority, are the same people who did not receive healing from Jesus because he could not “…do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.” (Matt 13:58)

We don’t want to be like the people Jesus found in his hometown. We want to be people whose spiritual eyes are open to his authority, power and dominion. If your desire is to receive all that God has for you, not just in the life to come, but in the here and now, you must be willing to call Doubt a thief and see it for what it is. Don’t give in to the thoughts that would attempt to persuade you from what you’re believing for according to God’s Word. Don’t grow weary and let your guard down. Continue to renew your mind by getting the Word of God into your spirit by reading daily, praying continually and staying in fellowship with the Lord throughout your day. Keep the enemy of doubt at bay with the Word that’s rooted deep inside you!

We find in Hebrews 3 that those who held unbelief in their hearts toward God did not enter into the Promised Land: “Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.”  We can see according to this text that doubt and unbelief are serious offenses to God.

If you find that you are in your own wilderness of sorts, and circumstances do not appear to be in your favor, this is the exact place and time where you need to kick in the measure of faith God has given you and to take active steps to drive the doubt OUT! I’m believing with you for your Promised Land blessings to manifest as you remain in faith to the mighty Word of God.

After 25 years of ministry, I have seen all kinds of things. I have definitely seen my share of the good, the bad and the ugly. The hardest thing to witness is seeing well-intentioned people repeatedly fail at receiving God’s will in their lives.  God offers us peace, joy, strength, and so many promises in His Word; His will for us as believers in Christ are good and precious promises.

Although this is the truth according to the Word of God, many fail at obtaining those promises because in the midst of their battles and fiery trials they side with their circumstances – the way things appear - instead of siding with the Word of God, which is infallible and never changing. No matter what your personal struggle may look like, you must choose to side with the Word of God every time! If you side with Him, lean on His promises, and look for the leading of the Holy Spirit, the Lord will fight for you and give you that victory you desire in Him.

Romans 8:14 says that, “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.” We want to be known as the children of God, don’t we? But we cannot be led by the Spirit until we discover where God is speaking from. Let me explain. The Bible tells us that we’re three part beings (1 Thessalonians 5:23). We are spirit, soul and body. The real you is your spirit - your inner man. This is the place from where God speaks. See, the “voice” of your body is emotion and feelings; the “voice” of your mind is intellect and reason, but your spirit “voice” is your conscience, or what we often call our “heart.” Learn to listen to your inner man rather than depending upon those other voices. God does not speak out of your body or your mind but your spirit. Remember, wherever God leads, He provides for that leading and He blesses that direction in your life, so learn to be led by the Holy Spirit.

Whenever you are standing in faith and believing God for something in your life, that faith must come from your inner man - the heart - and not “of the head.” Jesus said, “For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says” (Mark 11:23). It is of utmost importance that we get the Word of God down in our heart; we must mediate on the scriptures until they register deep within that place from where the Spirit speaks. When we are living and operating in that place where “heart faith” rules, it is then that we see the world around us change.