One of the evidences that we know God is when we rest in Him, even in the storm. However some of the great generals in the Bible questioned God when going through some storms.


Moses asked in Ex 5:22-23 Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it You have sent me? [23] For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil to this people; neither have you delivered Your people at all.

This was after he had the burning bush experience. Like Moses, we have often found ourselves calling God’s integrity/ faithfulness to question like that? Even the best of men can still doubt God in the heat of trouble.


What do you do when obeying God and standing in the centre of God’s will, seem to move you deeper into trouble and more mess? Who do you report God to, when His actions or lack of it appears inconsistent and bothers on unfaithfulness to you?


No matter how close we are to God, or how sensitive or spiritual we may be, there is always an aspect of God that we are yet to know. God always has more for his people to discover even in our closer walk with Him.


Many of us have limited God to the size of our wallet. The most easily discouraged people are Christians. We have created God after the image of our need and after the likeness of our wants, thus we limit the holy one of Israel.


Let’s see a catalogue of people who doubted God’s faithfulness to His promise?
Abraham: In Genesis 15:6, believed God’s promise yet in Genesis 16:2, he listened to the voice of his wife and agreed to have children through the maid, in Genesis 17:17, when God specifically told him that his wife would bear a child, he laughed in unbelief.


2 Kings 7:1 the prophet of God said – About this time tomorrow, a seah of fine flour shall be sold for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria. The king’s armour bearer doubted and sneered at the prophecy!


Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist, in Luke 1:20, became dumb for not believing that Elizabeth his wife shall bear John. In John 6: The disciples of Jesus doubted his ability to feed the multitude with five loaves and two fishes. The disciples in Luke 24:11 also disbelieved the reports of the women who reported Jesus had resurrected just as He had promised them that He would


In all these instances, the people of God acted in gross unbelief and limited God. Yet God still fulfilled His promises and bypassed man’s unfaithfulness as we are assured in Romans 3:3-4 ‘For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect? [4] God forbid: let God be true, but every man a liar’;


One would imagine that having witnessed the awesome demonstration of God’s power in freeing them from the gruesome hands of their taskmasters, the Israelites, would never doubt God, but unfortunately, though they saw the acts of God, they did not know God. As soon as they set off on their journey to the Promised Land, they murmured bitterly against God and questioned His commitment to their wellbeing. In other words, they questioned God’s faithfulness.


The divine ability and faithfulness of our God is stated in so many places in the Bible. In Matthew 3:9 we are told that that God is able to raise up children unto Abraham from stones. In 2 Corinthians. 9:8 we are assured that ‘And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work’: In Daniel 3:17, the three Hebrew boys stated that ‘Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace’ and guess what He did!


What is it with man that we always try to work out God’s provision with our infinite mind? Ps 78:17-19. The writer of Hebrews has this to say to us on how and what we should do to be safe:
‘For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword’. (Hebrews 4:10-12)


God reminded the Israelites of three things He had promised to do regardless of their unfaithfulness (Exodus 6:5-6):


He would bring them out of bondage

He would rescue them

He would redeem them with an outstretched arm & great judgments

Surely He is still able to do this today, irrespective of your situation