By Benescke Janse van Rensburg

God’s Word and promises remain true. Here is how Evert Potgieter, a reader from Mossel Bay, experienced God’s faithfulness a few days ago:

Evert: “I am a financial advisor for the past 21 years. Since working on commission and not receiving a set salary at the end of the month, my faith has been tested on various occasions. Although I am a child of God, fully aware of my dependence on Him, it still sometimes hard to trust Him during hard times. However, He has never failed me.

In the past two months I went through a period of unprecedented drought in my practice which caused me to wonder if my prayers even reached God. Discouraged I started opening my e-mails on the morning of May 8. April has been my worst month in my 21 years in my career and the month ahead did not promise to be any better. I use the Verse-a-Day devotion in my morning quiet times with God. That morning's theme was: ‘Thanks in anticipation’, speaking about how we need to thank God for our breakthroughs while still waiting.

The message was very relevant to my mood. I read the scripture in 2 Chronicles 20 and also experienced God was telling me, as He told Jehoshaphat and the Israelites, to stop fighting on their own, while allowing Him to fight on their behalves. I recommitted everything in my life to God, thanking Him in advance.

By the end of that day I closed my business with income equivalent to two months’ work. It was a miracle, demonstrating God faithfulness once again to me! All glory goes to Him!”

Evert is right. God is faithful and when we put Him first, trusting Him in everything, He never disappoints us. In Numbers 23:19 we read: “God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind.” And in Deuteronomy 7:9 we read: “Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God. . .”

Do you need a breakthrough in the workplace, with your finances, in your marriage or your health? Listen again to the promise in Isaiah 43:19: "For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland."

God is for us. He can change any situation, like Evert’s, from a wasteland to one filled with rivers. Let us therefore thank Him for His faithfulness while stopping to fighting in our own strength and allowing Him to fight on our behalves. God bless.

Father God, thank You for your faithfulness. Help me to stay faithful in hard times knowing that you are fighting on my behalf. Also help me to act with wisdom and obedience in every situation. I ask this in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

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