{ Live on what He says you can do, & not what you say you cannot do. }

We call Abraham “father” not because he got God’s attention by living like a saint, but because God made something out of Abraham when he was a nobody.

 Isn’t that what we’ve always read in Scripture, God saying to Abraham, “I set you up as father of many peoples”?

Abraham was first named “father” and then became a father because he dared to trust God to do what only God could do: raise the dead to life, with a word make something out of nothing.

When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn’t do but on what God said he would do.

And so he was made father of a multitude of peoples. God himself said to him, “You’re going to have a big family, Abraham!”

when God calls forth seeds of greatness in us, it goes to show that those seeds were already planted and grown in His eyes despite what we yet to see. and all we need to right now, is just be rather than do -- because what God sees in existence, is already alive and breathing.

(inspired by dailydevo by j.osteen)

“whatever You have called us Lord, we are to become than to work forth that calling. because You do not call for someone who isn’t but is. I rather have the God things than the good ones, because that way I know and I know and I know, it could have only come nowhere else but from Your hand of grace upon grace.

Even in the impossibilities and hopelessness, help me to live not on my own human limitations, but on Your God unlimitations which says all things are possible with You to whom believes.

I believe Lord, I believe -- not in what You can, but Who You are.”