Deposits and Withdrawals

 In the world of finances, most people understand the principles of depositing funds into an account and the withdrawal of funds from an account. Weekly people deposit paychecks into their accounts. Some do it through an actual paycheck. Others have those funds deposited electronically. They do this so they have access to funds to make necessary purchases like groceries, mortgage payments or rent, utility payments and so forth. 

That is not what I have on my mind. I am thinking of the bank of faith. We learn in Ps 24:1 that God owns everything. He has access to anything He wants. Money. Vehicles. Houses. Clothing. He also has available to Him healing, wisdom, anointing, revival, comfort, and strength to be shared with others at His command. It's all His to dispense as He sees fit. 

Now picture praying saints who continually are making deposits of faith into their account. They trust, believe, and are assured that God hears and will meet their needs. Multiple deposits of faith are built up. Then comes the moment of need when they need to cash in on their deposits and make a withdrawal. They ask in faith. They trust God will meet their need. 

This can be done in invisible ways. God may answer in ways the physical eye cannot see. Like giving a person peace in troubled times. Like providing strength to endure a difficult stretch. He can also do it in tangible ways as well. He can provide needed funds at just the right moment. He has provided His people with food, protection, physical healing, guidance, and other necessities in timely manners in response to faith filled asking. People prayerfully make withdrawals and God releases the necessary resources. 

I am not suggesting that we earn God's blessings. That we do enough good works to merit answers to our prayers. I am suggesting that each faith filled prayer and praise is a deposit into our account. We may go weeks and months without really needing anything significant from the Lord. Then a crisis comes when we need God to intervene. In those times, we can ask God for a withdrawal to meet the need of the hour. 

It would be tragic to encounter some trial and go make a withdrawal of faith only to find our account is overdrawn because we have not deposited anything into it. Prayer is a deposit of trust. The accumulative account of all that trust in God will move Him to action when we most need Him. 

Again, this is not a works based thought of trying to earn certain blessings. This is building up our holy faith in God so that, when we most need to trust Him, we find sufficient belief to meet the situation. I hope your faith account is full, amply supplied, with extra reserves for any and every situation. There is a time to deposit. There is also a time to make withdrawals. May our faith accounts be overflowing when the time of withdrawal comes.