What are you delivering?

Key Truth: What you carried may have tested your faith, but what you deliver will reveal it.

Scripture Anchor:

Hebrews 11:6

Habakkuk 3:17-18

Consider This: If someone asked, “Do you want to please God?” most of us would quickly say, “Of course!” However, Hebrews 11:6 pushes us further and we are met with the question, "Are you delivering faith?" in the various seasons life brings about.

It is easy to call it faith when the prayer gets answered, the door opens, the money comes, the relationship works, and the report is good. But what do you deliver when life hurts?

Habakkuk gives us a powerful word: YET. He looks at everything that is going wrong and says, “Yet I will rejoice.” That is not denial; that is faith!

Faith doesn't require you to pretend you aren't disappointed. Faith doesn't tell you not to cry. Faith doesn't make you call bad things good. Faith says: "This hurts, YET I trust God." "I don't understand, YET I believe God." "This isn't what I prayed for, YET God is faithful."

Girlfriend, everybody needs a YET response! After everything you've carried, don't deliver fear - deliver FAITH!!!

Reflection Questions:

• What have I been carrying throughout this year?

• How have the things I've carried affected the way I respond to God?

• Am I currently delivering faith, fear, frustration, bitterness, or unbelief?

• Where do I need to put a “YET” behind my current reality?

Application:

Find Your YET

• Open the notes app on your phone and create a note titled:

• YET I WILL.

• Write one honest sentence about what you're facing.

• Then write your faith response underneath it.

  • Though: I still don't know how this will work out.

  • Yet: I will trust God.

  • Though: I'm disappointed by what happened.

  • Yet: I will believe God is still working.

Don't deny the though; just don't let it cancel your yet.

Prayer: Father, I want my life to please You. After everything I have carried, help me deliver faith. I refuse to allow disappointment, delay, or difficulty to have the final word over my response. Give me a “yet” kind of faith that trusts You when I understand and when I don't. May my response reveal that I still believe You. In Jesus' name, amen.

Closing Declaration: I will not deliver fear from what I carried in faith. Though life changes, my God does not. Though I may cry, yet I will trust. Though I may not understand, yet I will believe. I am delivering FAITH.

Next Week: What happens when you've been carrying something longer than you expected?