JANUARY 10 "THE WHAT IF CHRISTIAN, EVER MET THEM?"

People in the church function on two completely different spheres. There are those that walk in faith and confidence in god and there's always those, I call them the "what ifs" that always have the contingency, back up plan in case God fails. Abraham with all the faith in God that he will come through for him, as he has many times before begins to lay out his plan, to His servant. Abraham is barely finish with his proposal and the servant is already countering with a "what if" plan. Ever met the "what if" brother or sister in your church?! You will also find that their back up plans are always stupid and normally don’t factor in God whatsoever, neither God’s plan nor His will. The servant, the what if guy says, "what if the woman is unwilling to come......shall I take your son back to the country you came from?" it's like............are you serious? You know what the problem with people is who come up with "what if" plans........they use them! So it only encourages them more. Why do they use them you ask?  Because God lets them. God doesn't argue with them and their unbelief but gives them over to their ways. Christians who don’t use the "what ifs", God moves for and their faith only increases leaving out more and more this idea of "what if" plans. The brother or sister who always comes up with "what ifs", God does not come through for them, they use their plan and their unbelief in God to move for them only grows and their belief in themselves, that they must come thru for them, only increases. And these are not the people outside the church, they are the people that sing songs with us every Sunday all across America and elsewhere in the world, the Netherlands, Ukraine, Trinidad and so forth. I don’t know how you can have Christians that never believe God for a miracle, but yet , apparently, they believe that God is going to resurrect them from the dead. I don’t know how you can have Christians that never believe God for a miracle, but yet , apparently, they believe that God is not going to bring up any of their sins at the resurrection. How can they not believe God for these smaller miracles but yet say they believe God to do the greatest miracles? I wonder what their "what if" plan is, If god doesn't raise them from the dead....purgatory?!

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