Even If He Kills Me

If you are prepared to stand forever you won’t stand for long.
Kenneth Hagin Snr

Believing and trusting God is not something you just try. People have sometimes said to me: “Well, I’ll try that brother Shaun”. But trying is just trying to get the water without getting wet. Like Abraham you have to commit to the promise of God with all your heart.
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart...”

With all your heart is an all out commitment, an uncompromised stand from which you are not prepared to back away from, a single-minded decision to trust God to be the Source of your situation, need and life.

A man once said that when he died they should write on his gravestone : “Here lies ...., He believed God”.

Believe right through to the end and be prepared to believe even beyond that. Make an unqualified commitment to believe and make a stand for the rest of your life. The Word of God stands forever, Jesus said, so we should make our stand on it, forever. Don’t be wavering and hesitating. The time will come in your believing when it ‘feels’ as if nothing is happening, when your stand seems totally futile, when it appears that what you have decided to trust God with is getting worse.

The Jewish boys Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego could have got to the open furnace door and said “Oh dear it doesn’t work” and asked to be taken out the fire, but they said :
“Dan 3:16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to return a word to you on this matter.
Dan 3:17 If it is so that our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, then He will deliver us out of your hand, O king.
Dan 3:18 But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods nor worship the golden image which you have set up. “

They were trusting God with their lives and chose to believe regardless. It didn’t quite turn out as many would like, but we know the story that the Lord did deliver them.
Nebuchadnezzar had the answer to their deliverance:
“Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent His Angel and has delivered His servants who trusted in Him, ...”

They ended up in the fire, but they had made a commitment to believe God forever, to trust in Him. The result was that although they did end up in the fire they experienced a deliverance that has filled the story telling annals.

Job said:
(KJV) Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him:

Trusting and believing God is not a temporary attempt to get Him to do something for you, even though He will, but its about making that stand that comes from a heart committed to the Lord and His promise.

When we make that stand with all our heart we will ‘see’ God move on our behalf, but He does want our heart, He does want us to trust Him with ALL our heart.