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Actually, you know more about your future that you think you do. So, it's time to start walking.

Walking by faith is simple--it's one step at a time. Each step is preparation for the next. If you try to skip a step, you'll lack the proper foundation for the next step that follows. If you are where you are, following the leading of the Spirit, you're there because your future needs you to be there, laying the right foundation for what's ahead.

Faith is like a muscle; opposition may strain it, but in the end it grows stronger. The Psalmist David understood this principle. He was continually hounded by his enemies. Even when he was being anointed to sit on the throne, Saul, the old king, was still occupying it. But instead of losing faith in God's promise, David understood that "the Lord has set apart the godly man for Himself" (Ps. 4:3 NAS). When the Philistines captured him he prayed, "When I am afraid, I will trust in You" (Ps. 56:3).

Too many of us stand on the dock waiting. We want the ship in place, the gangplank perfectly positioned, the weather right, and an engraved invitation before we're willing to launch out. It will never happen! Dreams don't move toward us, we have  to move toward them!

In our own lives, the Lord often tells us to "move on" when the financial need is still in front of us; when the disease is still there; and when the temptation, circumstances, and trials are still there. Those of us who live by faith do that. As we move on, it may look as if we are walking into destruction. But we have to remember that God is fighting the battle for us. We aren't walking into defeat. We are walking through to victory!

As the coming of the Lord draws closer the glory of the Lord will increase. Those who follow religion as a form, as it seems Zachariah did, will have their spiritual shallowness exposed in the presence of the glory. Those who have inclined their heart to the Word, as Mary must have done, are the most likely to be able to comprehend and interpret spiritual matters (Proverbs 4:1, The Amplified Bible).

"The God of all comfort, who comforts us." (2Corthians 1:3-4)

Jentzen Franklin wrote; God can make you comfortable in the most uncomfortable places. He can pull you out of situations you thought you'd be stuck in forever. He can give you peace, even in the midst of trauma.

Before your life is over, you'll live, love, and experience loss. Losing some things will actually help you to appreciate the things you still have. It's the taste of failure that makes success so sweet. How can you celebrate victory unless you've known defeat?

If you are a father or mother you are to love your children and lead your children. They are following you. They are Loving like you and Leading like you. If you are husband or wife the same thing is true.

Leadership is required of you. You can't manage what you do not have. You must lead to get there. If you are gonna do anything outstanding in your life, you are gonna have to show some love and leadership!

Fear isn't just a reaction to external circumstances. It's a spiritual force. It begins inside a person. And it IS destructive. Fear is Satan's primary weapon.

In Matthew 14 when Jesus told Peter to come to Him on the water Peter begin to go to Jesus on the water. In verse 30 it says, "But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me."