On the Other Side of Faith

This is an incredible story that I've just read.

It's an historical account from the Old Testament about a battle that was won where God literally fought on behalf of his people.

And I want you to understand this for a minute.

There was...

There was a man who stepped out in obedience and literally there was God fighting on his behalf, sending hailstorms, literally doing things that were out of the ordinary and doing things that weren't able to be done in the natural because there was a man who stepped out in obedience.

And then this incredible thing happens in this account.

And I'm sure you all would have picked up on it as I read that story and I'm sure many of you have heard this story before, but I wanted to stir our faith today of what can happen when somebody prays.

I wanted to stir our faith today to understand that there is no limits to what God is able to do.

I wanted to stir our faith today that our God is bigger than any circumstance you might be facing than any battle you might be fighting right now, our God is able.

And what happened in this story is there was Joshua in the midst of a battle and he stops, he takes a moment and he begins to pray.

The Bible says that he literally stopped and in the midst of the whole army of Israel, he takes a moment and he begins to pray.

And his prayer wasn't just an ordinary prayer of God help us win this battle.

He prays this prayer that literally calls the sun to stand still in the sky.

He says, God, we desire this battle to be won.

And as we're fighting this battle, God, would you make the sun stand still in the sky? And the most amazing part of this story is God hears the prayer of this man fighting a battle and literally the whole world stands in amazement as at this one man's prayer, the sun stands still in the sky.

And the Bible says that God fought the battle on behalf of His people that day.

I want us to stir our faith a little bit this morning.

Because I know I'm guilty of it as well.

There's times that maybe you find yourself in a battle or maybe you're just going through the motions of life.

And we can find that we sometimes place restrictions even subconsciously around what we expect God to do at certain times or in certain seasons or in response to certain things.

Am I right? I'm surely not the only one.

And today I want us by the Spirit of God to just take those restrictions off what we believe God is able to do if it's in His Word, I want us to just remove all of those preconceived ideas of this is how much I'm able to believe God for and to allow that kind of faith that Joshua had in his spirit as he prayed that prayer to believe that actually maybe in response to my prayer today, God is able to make the sun stand still in the sky.

If at the prayer of one I wonder what kind of prayers we could begin to pray as we head into the rest of this year to begin to believe God for more than we could hope for or imagine, and what kind of prayers God might just be waiting to answer on your behalf as we head into the end of this year that could cause some situations that look dire to begin to change.

to begin to release the miraculous into areas you may not have even dreamed to believe God for.

to see something shift and some things change.