One of the things you learn when you’re going through God’s process of developing you for a high calling is that your faith is going to be tested — repeatedly, and at increasing levels of intensity. Some of those tests will seem enormous at first. But as you work through them, your faith develops, and what once felt overwhelming no longer has that same power over you. And just when you think you’ve arrived at a new level of strength, something even bigger comes along. That’s not a sign that you’re failing — it’s a sign that you’re being promoted.

The Gap Between What God Said and What You See

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Hebrews 11:1 (KJV)

The test of adverse circumstances makes you doubt God because of the fact that the natural world looks more realistic than God’s invisible supernatural promise.

Here’s where most people stumble. God shows you something — perhaps through dreams, through His Word, through a clear inner knowing — and it’s positive. It’s specific. It’s real. Then the enemy does something so big, so intimidating, so seemingly logical, that you find yourself tempted to believe your circumstances instead of what God told you.

The trap deepens when you can’t figure out how God is going to work things out. Real bills. Real people working against you. Real situations that seem to directly contradict everything you were shown. That gap — between what He said and what you see — is exactly where the enemy wants you to live.

I’ve been in that place more times than I care to count. And I can tell you from experience: it is absolutely a process.

The Red Sea Moment

And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward: But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.

Exodus 14:15-16 (KJV)

If that were you and me standing on that shoreline, hearing the sound of chariot wheels and horse hooves getting louder, we would be terrified. No question.

Go back to one of the most dramatic stories in all of scripture — the Israelites standing at the edge of the Red Sea with the entire Egyptian army closing in behind them. There was no possible way out by any natural calculation.

We’ve heard that story so many times it can lose its impact. We treat it like a piece of ancient history — interesting, but distant. But stop and really consider the reality factor. That’s what a Red Sea moment actually feels like. Something comes against you that is so intimidating, so total in its apparent finality, that it seems designed to cancel out everything God showed you about your future.

That’s why the Bible calls it the fight of faith. Because it is a fight. More than that, it’s a war. And sometimes it will feel like a life-and-death war — because sometimes it literally is.

Building the Foundation That Holds

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

1 Timothy 6:12 (KJV)

The answer is not to white-knuckle your way through each crisis. It’s to build such a solid foundation of faith that when these moments arrive, you don’t get swept away.

That means getting serious about three things:

• Knowing God’s Word — not just being familiar with Bible verses, but understanding them deeply enough to stand on them when everything around you is screaming the opposite
• Rehearsing truth regularly — reading, repeating, meditating on what God has said until it becomes more real to you than what your natural eyes see
• Learning from proven teachers — when it comes to this specific dimension of faith, there is one voice I consistently recommend: Apostle David E. Taylor. No one else I’ve encountered even comes close to what he carries in this area.

The root issue underneath all of this is fear. Fear is why we believe circumstances over God’s word. The more solidly you build your faith, the less fear has to work with — and the faster you recover when something shocking hits you out of nowhere.

Abraham endured many contradictions to God’s promises. Abraham’s response is what led God to promote him to a level most Christians never reach. Like Moses, Abraham also overcame major tests that we trivialize and casually dismiss.

What’s at Stake

Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.

Hebrews 11:33-34 (KJV)

Here’s the deal… We’re not talking about becoming a typical passive, powerless churchgoer. We’re talking about becoming kings in God’s kingdom — people with real authority, real power, real dominion. Not the standard religious church hype — all words and no demonstrated power. Real kings are formed by a process and are used by God to change the world. They speak decrees and things actually happen in real life — real, tangible, observable results.

I want to be clear about why this matters so much, because this isn’t just about getting through hard times. This is about who you are being developed into.

For those who go through the real Biblical ancient process and mature into full sonship, we’re talking about dominion over the elements of creation. I was shown much along those lines in many dreams within the last few years, and it still anchors me on difficult days. Sonship requires a faith that cannot be shaken — and that faith is forged in exactly the kinds of tests I’ve been describing.

Still in the Process

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

1 John 4:18 (KJV)

I’ve had to deliberately choose to stand on what God showed me instead of being swept away by circumstances that, on the surface, looked far more “realistic.”

I want to be transparent: I haven’t perfected this. I’m still in it. In fact, just within the last several months I’ve faced the kinds of tests that make most Christians cower in fear and bow down to. I’ve had to deliberately choose to stand on what God showed me instead of being swept away by circumstances that looked far more “realistic” on the surface.

But I can say with confidence — I’ve developed far more than I ever thought I could. And that development is real. It holds up. It’s not just a scripted performance or mere positive thinking. It’s a solid rock foundation built over time through real battles.

If you’re in a Red Sea moment right now, take these things seriously — more seriously than you ever have before. The reward on the other side is greater than anything you can currently imagine. Don’t let fear convince you otherwise.

I’ve said much about this in my blogs and especially in my book, Marvel Dream Revelations plus the accompanying video series. If you don’t have these, get them today and find out the shocking things God has revealed in dreams about what you can accomplish with your faith. If I can do this, I’m pretty sure you can as well.

To be continued…

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