I've confessed God's Word. I've sown seeds. I've fasted. I've prayed. I've
done everything! Why hasn't my situation changed? Oh God, why?!!!" Many
people are agonized like this over their seeming inability to change their
situation. Yet, in Matthew 17:20, Jesus made this statement clear. He said
"When you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, nothing shall be impossible
unto you."
So, why do many of God's people pray, fast, cry, sow seeds, confess
Scriptures and still experience frustrations and even tragedies in their finances,
health, jobs, marriages and businesses. Why do they always end up
questioning, "Oh God, why?"
Many who find themselves asking this kind of question or who find
themselves in such situations have one major problem: They haven't learnt how
to make their faith work.
Apart from their ignorance of how to put their faith to work, some
Christians find their faith coming under attack and weakened by adverse
circumstances. Like Peter, they take their eyes off the Word and gaze in fear at
the boisterous winds and billowing waves; they eventually begin to sink when
they should actually be walking on the water.
Jesus said in the last days men's hearts shall fail them for fear (Luke
21:26), yet this is not the portion of the child of God. Proverbs 24:10 says, "If
thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small." The Living Bible
translation of the same Scripture says,
"You are a poor specimen if you can't stand the pressure of adversity,"
letting us know it's wrong for our faith to fail or buckle under the pressure of
adversity.
Unfortunately, it is at such times of adversity that some take their eyes off
God's Word. They neglect their faith, allowing it to be stifled and rendered
ineffective by circumstances which the same faith should have dominated. Any
child of God can rise above any situation, time and time again, if he'd only
learn how to make his faith work.