It’s Safe to Try this At Home // Having Faith that Moves Mountains, Part 4

<p>It seems that over and over again, the world teaches us to be self–reliant.  Life’s about succeeding and success is about who we are and what we do and in this day and age, surely we can be and do whatever we want.  Oh really?</p> <h4><span style="color: #ff9900;">A Part For God To Play </span></h4> <p>I was sitting down with a group of businessmen recently for a breakfast that we’d organised and I was about to share a message called "<em>The Battle Belongs to the Lord"</em> with this group. It was interesting to listen to the discussion around the table as people drank their coffee and munched on a muffin.</p> <p>Being men in business, the discussion was around the economic climate and it’s impact on their businesses. And as we chatted, it became pretty clear to me how self-reliant this group of men had been programmed to be.</p> <p>They are after all, businessmen. They have businesses to run. They’re meant to succeed. And when the economy turns sour, it’s almost as though they are the failures because their businesses are struggling. In fact, during the economic crisis, I sat with a wise, older man and he was sharing with me how much of his time was being taken up counselling other men in his sector – financial services – who were contemplating suicide because they were facing ruin.</p> <p>Whatever we do, whoever we are, it seems that society is programming us to be self-reliant. We have to rely on our wits and our abilities to succeed and if we don’t we’re failures. Never mind that some adversity that we could never control has swept in like a storm off the ocean. No – we’re meant to succeed. But here’s the thing – if we’re so self-reliant, what happens when the storm is so ferocious, we can’t deal with it? What happens when the mountain is so big, we can’t budge it? Then what? It’s scary. Really scary.</p> <p>The hardest thing I think in overcoming fear in life is actually getting to that point where we have a high level of confidence in God. Who God is. What He’s done. His might and His power and His sove