How God Acts and Moves in Our Lives

Do you believe God moves and acts on your behalf?

Often, we find it difficult to believe something is happening, especially when we don’t see it.

Yet, believing without seeing is the definition of faith in Hebrews 11:1.

“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” (ESV)

Years ago, I told the Lord I don’t like it when I can’t see what He’s doing or how He’s moving. 

But that wouldn’t be faith.

Instead, we rest assured that God is working and moving in the heavenly realm and in the world and our lives—no matter what we see or can’t see.

Let’s look at 3 assuring ways God acts and moves.

(1.) God acts and moves through prayer.

Many times we underestimate the power of prayer to change situations and people…to change us.

Because we move the spiritual world when we praise the Lord, recognize who God is, petition the Almighty, intercede for others, and speak God’s Word in prayer.

But sometimes our own thoughts, the enemy, or other people trick our heart into thinking God is holding out on us.

Maybe a prayer went unanswered in how we wanted the situation to turn out. Perhaps we feel God didn’t come through for us in what we wanted to happen. Or, we’ve prayed for something so long, it seems impossible.

Remind your heart: God. Is. Not. Holding. Out. On. Me.

God moves and acts to work out His best for me. God continues to remind me that His timing really is perfect; His plans for me are always for my good and His glory. 

So we don’t stop praying, we pray on. I’m thankful for the power of prayer: mountains still move, seas still part, mana still rains from heaven, and because God can raise the dead, ashes turn to beauty again.

(2.) The God of the impossible moves mountians.

“What is impossible with man is possible with God.” Luke 18:27b (ESV)

I believe God is able, powerful, and mighty. These characteristics about God not only mean He does the impossible, but also that God moves mountains in my life. And it includes moving and acting in the past, present, and future.

You know those biblical accounts of miracles for God’s people in the Bible? God does them for us.

God not only moved mountains for His people in the past, He moves mountains now in our lives with no other explanation except, “But God.” 

These may be mountains surrounding our health, relationships, finances, circumstances, or spiritual warfare.

Because God is God, He can do anything like moving an obstacle or mountain blocking the way to our own promised land. 

We find another important teaching about faith in the Bible. Faith moves mountains. (Matthew 17:20; Mark 11:23)

(3.) God acts and moves by making a way.

Because nothing is happenstance or coincidence, it’s God working behind the scenes on our behalf. Always.

Our heavenly Father makes a way, carving out a path before us, even when there seems to be no way. 

Just like the Lord parted the Red Sea for His people fleeing from the Egyptian army, He parts seas in our situation to make a way to the other side. The Lord parts seas in our lives when there was no other way around the difficult issue we faced. 

And God makes a way in our wilderness. “Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.” Isaiah 43:19 (ESV)

Wilderness experiences are no respector of persons. And this includes God’s people as long as we live on the earth. Trauma, great loss, illness, and so on, catapult us into a wildnerness. But God provides in every way, in every wilderness we travel through.

God is always working behind the scenes on our behalf.

God is on the move through prayer. Are we faithful to pray?

God of the impossible moves mountains. Do we have a move-mountains kind of faith in God?

God moves by making a way. Do we trust God is working behind the scenes on our behalf, makes a way when there’s no other way, and provides in every way in our wilderness experiences?

Featured photos courtesy of Friday’s Forever on YouTube.

Also see, God is Higher Than Anything I Face.