Allow God to Prove Himself (Episode 117)

As Christians, we often make claims about God based on the declarations of His Word. We say He is our healer or our deliverer or our provider, etc. But how willing are you to allow God to prove Himself to be the God you say He is in your life?

The world is looking for proof of our assertions. It’s one thing to quote the Scriptures about God’s goodness and His awesome power. But it’s another thing to produce some proof of the same.

Also, a big difference exists between trusting God because you have no other choice and trusting Him even when you have other options. Many times, when we face a challenge, we have options other than trusting God. If we stand in need of financial help, for instance, we can choose to trust God. Or we can go to a lending institution or to a person and borrow money.

But in this episode, Evangelist Frank King challenges believers to choose to trust God even when other options exist. This is how we allow God to prove Himself to be who we go around saying that He is to us.

It’s human nature, however, for us to not want to put ourselves through the rigor of trusting God—especially when we have other more comfortable options. Perhaps that’s why today we have so much comfortable Christianity and so few living testimonies about the goodness and the greatness of our God.

Religious Talk Is Cheap

Some believers talk a good game with respect to their faith in God. But it’s not enough to just talk about what we believe about Him. He wants us to live out our faith. That’s the gist of Christianity.

If we always talk about what we believe but are never willing to allow God to prove Himself in our life, all we have is dead faith. And guess what; even the devil has dead faith. They also believe and tremble (James 2:19). Moreover, God cannot prove Himself to be the God we claim He is if we don’t trust Him enough to allow Him to do so.

For example, consider the Israelites in the wilderness. When they arrived at the land God had promised their fathers, Moses sent twelve men to check it out. After 40 days, they returned to report their findings to Moses and the congregation. The spies confirmed that the land was fruitful. They brought back fruits as proof.

“Nevertheless, the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled,” the spies said (Numbers 13:28, KJV). Hearing this, the people wept. Because of the giants in the land, they did not believe God could give them the land. God decreed that those unbelievers would never put foot on the Promised Land (Numbers 14:23).

They should have been willing to allow God to prove Himself. He had delivered them from bondage in Egypt. He fed them in the wilderness. They lived in the presence of His glory. It was their light in the darkness of night and their shade in the heat of the day.