Refuse to Waver — God’s Promise Doesn’t Have an Expiration Date

I’m excited to get this into your hands today — because what I’m about to show you is the difference between people who receive from God and people who don’t. And it comes down to one decision you’re going to have to make, maybe every single day.

We’ve been walking through the recipe of faith — what Abraham did, step by step, ingredient by ingredient, to receive from God. And today we land on something that is going to hit you right where you live.

Abraham did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief.

Wavering is not a feeling. It’s a choice.

Let me be clear about something because people misunderstand this. Wavering is not the doubt that shows up in your head at two in the morning. Doubts are going to come. Thoughts are going to come. The question is what you do with them.

The word “waver” here in Romans 4 means to choose not to believe. It’s not a passive slide into doubt — it’s a decision. And that means the antidote is also a decision. You choose to believe. You refuse to waver.

When the thought comes — “You’re not going to get those socks. God doesn’t care about socks. This isn’t going to work” — you answer it. You don’t entertain it. You don’t sit with it. You go right back to the Word and you say, “I believe that whatsoever I ask the Father in Jesus’ name, He will give me. I asked for socks. I believe I received them. I will have them.”

That’s not you working yourself up emotionally. That’s you making a choice. Every single time.

Stop listening to people who have no idea what they’re talking about.

Here’s a story I want you to sit with. There was a millionaire insurance salesman — one of the most successful in the history of his company. Out of generosity, he decided to take a handful of men under his wing and teach them everything he knew. One of those men, on the night he got the offer, went to a bar and told the bartender about his opportunity. A stranger sitting nearby said, “I tried selling insurance once and nearly lost everything.”

That man decided not to go back.

Let that sink in. He took the word of someone who admitted complete failure — over the word of a proven millionaire who was offering to personally tutor him.

I love people. But I’m going to be straight with you: that is idiotic. And we do the exact same thing in our walk of faith. Somebody says, “I know someone who believed God and it didn’t work out,” and we let that one voice override every promise God has made to us personally.

You want to know who to listen to? Imitate those who through faith and patience inherited the promises. Not those who through doubt and unbelief received nothing. Find somebody who got it right and do what they did.

Don’t consider what contradicts the promise.

Romans 4:19 tells us Abraham did not consider his own body — already dead — or the deadness of Sarah’s womb. There are actually two things he refused to factor in: what he himself thought and felt, and what anyone else thought or felt about it.

Here’s the thing about Sarah. I honestly believe she had long since given up. Why else would she hand Abraham her maidservant? She laughed when God said it was happening. She denied she laughed. She wasn’t exactly the encouragement of the century.

And Abraham had to make the choice not to factor her in.

You’re going to have people in your life — people you love, people you respect — who look you in the eye and say, “Look at the storm. Look at the wind. Look at the sea.” And you are going to have to decide that their opinion, their experience, their doubt is not the final authority on your life.

He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God.— Romans 4:20 (NKJV)

He was strengthened in faith. That strengthening didn’t come from circumstances lining up. It came from choosing — again and again — to believe what God said over what everything else was saying.

The Word is still true even when your body disagrees.

A little while back, I tore my bicep. And for a good 24 to 36 hours, I did not feel healed. Not even a little. But here’s what I did — I opened up 1 Peter 2:24, and it still said “by His stripes you were healed.” It didn’t say, “Well, not today. Not biceps. Try again later.” It said the same thing it always said.

God didn’t change. The Word didn’t change. And eventually, my bicep had to line up with what Jesus said about it — because He’s true, and my body was the liar.

That’s not denial. That’s faith. And that’s exactly what you have to do when the Word says one thing and your situation says another. You don’t consider the situation as the deciding factor. You anchor yourself to the promise.

Abraham drove off the vultures all day long — and you’ll have to also.

Genesis 15 gives us a picture you need to hold onto. God made a covenant with Abraham — an extraordinary promise. Abraham obeyed completely. He cut the animals, laid them out, and waited. And what happened? The vultures came.

All day long, Abraham drove them away from the sacrifice. It wasn’t a quick, shining moment where everything fell into place. He had to fight for it — hour after hour — before the Lord showed up with the fullness of what He’d promised.

That is your walk of faith. You say “amen,” and sometimes it doesn’t show up right away. So what do you do while you’re waiting? You drive off the vultures. You refuse every thought that contradicts the promise. You keep choosing to believe. You do not waver.

The promise is still true. God has not forgotten you. And He is not going to let you down.

Hold the line.

Fight To Win. Start today.