{"id":1386,"date":"2011-03-07T13:37:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T19:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2011-10-31T18:49:25","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T23:49:25","slug":"twirl-027-3711","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/lessons\/twirl-027-3711","title":{"rendered":"TWIRL 027 (3\/7\/11): Evidence that Demands a Verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Week In Recovery Lesson<\/span><\/h2>\n

Evidence That Demands a Verdict <\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

F<\/span><\/span>REEdom From MEdom Project is a venture in faith. Here’s a secret about<\/span> <\/span>faith<\/span><\/a>: faith is an experience rooted in substance and evidence. Like gravity and oxygen, you may not see the subject of your faith, but there is evidence that it’s real by experience. Oxygen keeps you alive and gravity keeps you grounded. We experience what we don\u2019t see all the time; therefore, we know<\/em> it\u2019s real. While we learn to trust in what we do not see, we put our faith in what we know <\/em>by experience to be true. When we don’t trust God, it’s because we don’t really know God.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.<\/strong> Hebrews 11:1 (NKJV)<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/span><\/a>You know, we don’t see wind either but we see and experience evidence of it everyday. The howling of the wind that we hear is not actually the wind sounding off but the obstruction that is resistant to the wind. The howling noise is the sound of resistance.\u00a0If we move in harmony with the wind, instead of holding us back,\u00a0the powerful\u00a0force of the\u00a0wind\u00a0propels\u00a0us. God is like the wind wanting to\u00a0impact\u00a0our lives by experience—everyday. When we resist God we hear the howling of our resistance in our circumstances that prove so dissatisfying. When we’re moving with God, He propels us, and our troubles aren’t so loud. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?<\/strong> Romans 8:32 (NKJV)<\/span><\/p>\n

The more we know God the more we’ll trust Him<\/span><\/strong>, and the more confidence we’ll have when we communicate with Him—and the less we will resist His influence<\/span><\/a> in our lives. When we come to believe and trust\u00a0in the evidence, the <\/span>verdict is that we\u00a0will then experience the wonderful life benefits of our faith.<\/span><\/p>\n