Have you ever stood in faith for a promise that God made to you only to have people try to talk you out of it? I call them ‘naysayers’. They are constantly trying to inflict doubt and unbelief into every promise of God. ‘Are you sure that’s for you? Perhaps God doesn’t want you to have it? Healing isn’t for everyone, you know. Did God REALLY say that? You’d better get to the doctors cause that sounds very serious! God doesn’t give out money, you have to earn that!’ The list goes on and on, doesn’t it? We all have them in our lives, don’t we. The sad thing is, these are most often ‘believers’ who say these things.

What voice will you listen to? God’s voice or theirs? Psalm 89:34 says, “My covenant I will not break, nor alter the word that has gone out of My lips.” Philippians 4:19 says He’ll supply all our needs; that can’t be altered. Psalm 103:3 says He’ll forgive all our iniquity and heal all our diseases; that can’t be altered. Unless you open your mouth and refute the voice of doubt and unbelief with the Word of God, you’ll become unstable, wishy washy, undecided and doubtful and easily discouraged. 

You can’t expect good things to come out of corrupted mind. If you have a well for your drinking water and discover that a dead animal is in the water, it’s corrupted and if you drink from it, you will get sick and die. It’s the same with your thought life. If you allow dead thoughts to sit in your mind, entertain those thoughts long enough and you’ll die.  Proverbs 23:7a says; As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.  

If you’re standing in faith for something, keep away from the naysayers! Don’t let the words come in to your mind. Don’t dwell on them, cast them down. II Corinthians 10:5 says, “casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ” There it is right there. We must be convinced that God is God and every man a liar. We must be sure of the promises of God, that they are yes and amen. We must shut out the voice of the enemy that comes to steal, kill and destroy. We must be fully persuaded that He is able to do exceedingly and abundantly above and beyond anything we can imagine, according to the power that works in us.

Father, I ask that you purify my mind, cleanse me of every contrary thought that would cause me to doubt your promises. Lord, I believe, help my unbelief. May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer. I will hold fast to the promises you’ve made to me. I trust in you!