I discovered the keys to untangling from doubt as I cried out to God in frustration. As I studied Luke Chapter 1, fresh faith poured into my heart.

For no word from God will ever fail. – Luke 1:37 NIV

We needed a different strategy! I had been begging God to come and fix my problem when He had already given me everything we needed to overcome.

His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. – 2 Peter 1:3 NIV

He gave me these keys, and they are available to you too.

Dear friend, I don’t know what circumstances you are facing today, but I know God cares deeply about everything affecting His beloved children. He is not slow in answering your prayers. He is waiting for you to come into the knowledge of who He has created you to be. Once you realize who you are, and the authority you have as a child of God, you will discover a world where all things are indeed possible for you.

You will get untangled from doubt.

Let’s Pray: Heavenly Father,

We thank you that nothing is impossible for you. You never change. Your heart toward us is always good. Your plans for us are for good and not for evil, to give us a future and a hope.

I pray for the person who is reading this Bible plan today. You know every impossibility they are facing. I pray that they will have eyes to see that You have given them everything they need to bring forth salvation in every situation.

Thank you for your Word. Thank you, Holy Spirit.

In Jesus Name Amen

Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. – Proverbs 4:23 NIV

Have you ever wondered why we are told to guard our hearts above all else?

I used to think guarding my heart meant not opening my heart to someone who wasn’t trustworthy. But I have since discovered that it is not about keeping people out, but about what I allow to enter my heart.

Our hearts are the very seat of our being. It is the meeting point between soul and spirit. As I delved deep into Proverbs 4:23 in my Strong-Lite concordance, it became clear to me how the heart creates the boundaries within which we function. In essence, we determine the extent to which God can move within us and through us by the condition of our hearts.

Jesus illustrated this when he shared the parable of the sower. You may be familiar with the story. The sower scattered seeds on different types of soil. The soils that were harder, or full of stones and thorns, did not produce a harvest. It was the good soil, the soft and receptive soil, that offered the right environment for the seed to take root and produce a crop.

“Listen then to what the parable of the sower means: When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in their heart. This is the seed sown along the path. The seed falling on rocky ground refers to someone who hears the word and at once receives it with joy. But since they have no roots, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful. But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown.” – Matthew 13:18-23, NIV

The condition of our hearts determines whether we receive the incorruptible seed of the Word and allow it to produce the Salvation we need.

In the first chapter of Luke, we have the same angel bringing the Word (a promise of supernatural birth) to two people–Mary and Zecharia. They both asked the same question: “How could this be?” But only one of them had a heart able to receive the promise. Gabriel had to shut Zecharia’s mouth so that he could not destroy the seed of this promise with his words of doubt and unbelief. (See Luke 1:11-20).

So, dear friend, may I ask you to stop for a moment and consider this–what is the condition of your heart?

Have you hardened certain pieces of your heart because of disappointment or pain from the past? Are there some heavy rocks or thorny weeds keeping God’s promises from taking root and producing the life you have been praying for?

Take a moment to invite the Holy Spirit to show you where the soil of your heart needs regeneration. Allow Him to gently remove the debris keeping the Word from growing in your heart.

God’s very nature is to heal, protect, deliver, and provide. James 1:17 in the Amplified Bible says: “Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above; it comes down from the Father of lights [the Creator and Sustainer of the heavens], in whom there is no variation [no rising or setting] or shadow cast by His turning [for He is perfect and never changes].”

He is a good Father, and He is consistent. He doesn’t choose to bless one child and not the other. He isn’t going to say ‘yes’ to you one day, and then ‘no’ to you the next. All His promises are yes and amen.

For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory. – 2 Corinthians 1:20 ESV

We never have to doubt His will for our lives. He wants us to prosper and be in good health. Always. We can be one hundred percent assured of His will in every situation.

The sovereignty of God is not displayed in the way He controls the outcome, but in the principles He set in motion to govern our world. Those principles (or forces) cannot be tampered with. They are incorruptible and unstoppable.

These forces are displayed in the story of Creation.

Where there is chaos, wherever things are out of order, you have a breeding ground for the miraculous. Genesis 1:2 (NIV) describes the earth as ‘formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep’. It is exactly there where we found the first force in operation ‘…and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.’

The second force was released when God Himself spoke the Word.

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.– Genesis 1:3, NIV

When Mary asked Gabriel, “How could this be?”

And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God. – Luke 1:35

Mary encountered both these forces, the Spirit, and the Word, and the Word became flesh within her.

Dear friend, where are you experiencing chaos right now?

If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. – Romans 8:11 ESV

I want to remind you today that you have the Spirit of God living inside you. You have access to every promise in His Word. These forces are incorruptible and unstoppable. God is sovereign in the principles He has established to govern the earth.

Receive His Word, receive His Spirit, and see Salvation come through you.