Doubt Your Doubt

​Biblical Christianity is a life of faith.
 
Born-again believers in Jesus Christ walk by faith, not by sight (Romans 1:17).
 
As people of faith, what are we to do if doubt comes along and clouds the horizon of belief?
 
I believe the Bible tells us to doubt our doubt.
 
In Mark 11:22-23 Jesus told His followers straight up: “HAVE FAITH IN GOD.”
 
 “And Jesus answered saying to them, Have faith in God. Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, “Be taken up and cast into the sea”, and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is going to happen, it shall be granted him.” Mark 11:22-23
 
Nothing could be plainer and more powerful than this: put your trust in God.
 
The Lord said it is true that if we believe, and do not doubt in our heart, we can cast mountains (life’s obstacles) into the sea with our faith. If you are like me, you have faced many mountains standing in the path of your life. Mountains that had to be dealt with.
 
Doubt never cast any mountain out. Faith moves mountains. Even mustard seed size faith can move mountains (Matthew 17:20). A little faith in God can move mighty big mountains. What a promise!
 
The principle underlying the promise is this: mountain moving faith is doubt free faith.
 
Jesus instructed us to not doubt. Why? Because He knows it is human to doubt. Doubts start in our head. Doubt is a disrupter of faith. Before we believe, while we are believing, and after we believe we are tempted to doubt. The spirit of doubt is not our friend!  
 
The devil wants us to doubt what God wants to do in our lives. Satan is delighted when we doubt our faith in Jesus Christ. If the evil one can get us to doubt, he believes that he can take us out.
 
The danger of doubt is that when we begin to wonder (question our faith and trust in God) then we can begin to wander (stray off the faith path). Doubt is a deceptive tool of the devil designed to discourage and derail us from our faith walk. If we wander too far, we can end up in a wilderness of confusion, frustration and despair.
But you and I do not have to go there. Doubt is beatable and defeatable.
 
 My friend do not be discouraged if doubt tries to derail your faith. In the past I have been way too hard on myself when doubt clouded my vision of walking by faith. Self-doubt can lead to self-condemnation and self-condemnation can erode self-confidence.
 
During a faith fight, when we are battling to believe, the devil wields the weapon of doubt.
 
The enemy of my soul wants me to think that something is wrong with me and my faith, that my faith is not real, or it is not strong or big enough. Doubt whispers deceptive lies to me that I have missed something or that my faith is not as genuine or mature as somebody else’s. Can anybody identify with this? I am sure you can.
 
To walk in victory in Christ we must render powerless the power of doubt.    
           
How can we do this? I have learned to deal with doubt in a decisive manner. Call doubt what it is. Doubt is doubt. Nothing more and nothing less.
 
When doubt comes knocking on the door of your mind and heart, be bold. Slam the door on doubt. Lock doubt out of your mind and spirit. Stamp out doubt. Give doubt a knockout punch. Stand firm in faith (see I Peter 5:9 and Ephesians 6:13). Make no room for doubt in your thinking or believing.
 
Think about it. If you doubt, the devil takes you out.
 
You will never count for the Kingdom of God if you walk in doubt instead of walking by faith. I do not know about you, but the devil gets no piece of my life.
 
I choose to doubt my doubt and cast the devil out by faith in Jesus’ mighty name!
 
When tempted to doubt, cast the doubt out! Refuse to pout. Use your clout. Overrule doubt with faith. Shout your faith in Jesus Christ. Toss out that mountain standing in your way into the sea of God’s faithfulness and miracle working power.
 
Doubt out, faith in. Doubt your doubt. Believe your belief.
 
HAVE FAITH IN GOD. Put faith in your faith. That is the way to walk by faith and move mountains in Jesus’ name!
 
Be a mountain mover today!
 
 “And immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and took hold of him (Peter), and said to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?”                               Matthew 14:31
 
“But let him ask in faith without any doubting; for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea driven and bossed by the wind.”                                               James 1:6
 
A WORD FOR YOUR WEEK: Never doubt your faith. Always doubt your doubt!