Totally

Francis Chan asked a piercing question: When's the last time you depended totally on God?

The truth is, we often use God as a fall-back. Or He's a side-kick to our other best laid plans. It's often God AND. There is no AND in authentic faith. There is something to the stories of the Bible that illustrate this. People often ask, "Why don't we see the miracles they saw in the Bible?" There's probably a lot of answers for that, but one of them is that we have too many 'ANDs".

Are you depending on something along with God in your career, family, marriage, addictions, and struggles? In the first commandment, the Bible says, "You shall have no other gods before me." But, many translations say, "You shall have no other gods before or besides me." Often, it's not that we have something before God, it's just that we have something sitting beside him. When we do that, we limit God's power to do something miraculous in our lives. If we only need God to come through a little, then a little is all we'll get. However, I believe that when we totally depend on Him, we begin to see Him do crazy stuff. We begin to see big God things happening in our lives. When He is our only hope, our only source of strength and our complete source of inspiration, when we are completely surrendered to God and God alone...we are poised for a miracle.

When was the last time you depended totally on God?