Moving Faith -1 of 2

 

Moving Faith -1 of 2

There is a real, weighty difference between meaning to do something and actually doing it. In faith, that gap is not small—it is vast.

We often comfort ourselves with intention:
“I will trust God.”
“I will obey.”
“I will step out when the time is right.”

But Scripture does not measure faith by intention. It measures it by movement.

When God called Abraham in Genesis 12, He gave no roadmap, no timeline—just a command and a promise.
And Abraham went.

He didn’t wait for clarity. He didn’t negotiate understanding. His obedience came before explanation.

That alone challenges us.

We want to understand before we move.
Abraham moved before he understood.

In Genesis 15, God promises descendants as numerous as the stars. Yet time passes. Silence stretches. Reality contradicts the promise.

This is where intention usually fades.

But Abraham believed God—not because circumstances supported it, but because God said it. He anchored himself in the voice of God, not the silence around him.

Faith is not optimism.
Optimism hopes something might happen.
Faith stands on what God has already said—even when nothing visible agrees.

But then comes Genesis 16.

Abraham still believed the promise, yet he tried to help God fulfill it. Through human reasoning, Ishmael was born.

And here is something deeply sobering:
When we intervene where God has spoken, we don’t cancel the promise—but we often complicate the path.

Faith waits.
Flesh manufactures.

We still do this today:
God speaks—we agree.
God delays—we step in.
God promises—we strategies.

The danger is not always unbelief.
Sometimes its premature action dressed in spiritual language.

True faith is not just agreeing with God.
It is trusting Him enough to wait, and bold enough to move only when He says move.

Signing off

Tyrone