El Es Indispensable

As believers we are kings and queens. The hearts of kings and queens are being constantly attacked. Gospel singer Debra Ashley sings on her album New Birth in the song "Do It Afraid:"
"Have you ever had a desire in your heart?
A desire so very strong you know it's from God.
Then the enemy has come your way.
Now your confidence is gone.
Well don't give up
Just trust in God.
And do it afraid." 

No matter what our life looks like in the past and present, no matter if we feel fear, what God has put in our hearts will be accomplished. King David had enemies all around him. Yet he committed himself to trusting in God and to keeping on doing what God called him to do day in and day out. King David writes in Psalm 21:7 Amplified Bible, "For the king trusts, relies on, and is confident in the Lord, and through the mercy and steadfast love of the Most High he will never be moved." He says in Psalm 21:2, "You have given him his heart’s desire and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah [pause, and think of that]!"

Sometimes we feel fear because the desires of our hearts do not always appear immediately, and/or they may not come in the way we imagined. Mary J. Blige sings in her song "Not Gon' Cry," about a woman who was a lover, mother and business partner dumped by her lover and business partner. She regrets ever getting into the relationship and laments, "11 years of sacrifice and you can leave me at the drop of a dime."

Every relationship is not for life. We have some things to give, receive and learn, and then move on. The end of a relationship does not mean the end of our heart's desires.

David didn't focus on his enemies trying to derail his heart's desires or on negative internal messages saying various versions of, "I can't do this." Just like Joshua had the Spirit of God living inside him (Numbers 27:18,) so did David; David had a relationship with God and focused on God. Like David we need to trust in God's abilities instead of our abilities to fix our problems and to fulfill our heart's desires. Is any problem to hard for God to solve?

Watchman Nee writes in his book The Normal Christian Life, "We are sinners, not because of ourselves but because of Adam. It is not because I individually have sinned that I am a sinner, but because I was in Adam when he sinned. Because by birth I come of Adam, therefore I am a part of him. What is more, I can do nothing to alter this. I cannot, by improving my behavior, make myself other than a part of Adam, and so a sinner....Unless we can change our parentage there is no deliverance for us."

Changing our parentage is to receive a relationship with God the Father, God the Son Jesus Christ and God the Holy Ghost. With God as our Parent we can work the principles of the Bible and expect success because God is the one guaranteeing the success. Relying on our abilities inspires fear because we are aware of some of our inabilities. But with God as our Parent we can do it afraid and expect God to increase our courage and to give us the victory of having our heart's desires fulfilled. God never fails; El es indispensable y incomparable. Is God on your side?