Have you been praying and asking God for help? Have you considered that He might be waiting for you to prove that you really trust Him? Has He asked you to do something and you don’t want to do it? For example, has he been telling you to go to church? Or find a new job? Or talk to someone about a hard subject? Or give up an addiction? Are there things that you think are too hard for God ? Nothing is too hard for God! He can even make a river stop flowing.

Did you know that the parting of the Red Sea when the Israelites were fleeing from the Egyptians was not the only time that God made a river stop flowing? He did it again when the Israelites left the wilderness. But first they had to put their foot into the water. Then the water stopped and piled up while they crossed over the Jordan!

By the way, this is where we get the phrase “getting your feet wet “, which usually refers to trying something new.

God wants to do amazing things in your life, but first He wants you to put your foot into the water. He wants to know if you trust Him or not! God can do the impossible. But He expects you to demonstrate faith. That can mean doing scary things sometimes, getting out of our comfort zones. Is God asking you to trust Him with something?

Joshua 3

10 And Joshua said, “Here is how you shall know that the living God is among you and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites. 11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is passing over before you into the Jordan. 12 Now therefore take twelve men from the tribes of Israel, from each tribe a man. 13 And when the soles of the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off from flowing, and the waters coming down from above shall stand in one heap.”

14 So when the people set out from their tents to pass over the Jordan with the priests bearing the ark of the  covenant before the people, 15 and as soon as those bearing the ark had come as far as the Jordan, and the feet of the priests bearing the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (now the Jordan overflows all its banks  throughout the time of harvest), 16 the waters coming down from above stood and rose up in a heap very far away,  at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, and those flowing down toward the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea,  were completely cut off. And the people passed over opposite Jericho. 17 Now the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firmly on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all Israel was passing over on  dry ground until all the nation finished passing over the Jordan.

19 The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they encamped at Gilgal on  the east border of Jericho. 20 And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up at  Gilgal. 21 And he said to the people of Israel, “When your children ask their fathers in times to come, ‘What do these stones mean?’ 22 then you shall let your children know, ‘Israel passed over this Jordan on dry ground.’ 23 For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you passed over, as the LORD your God  did to the Red Sea, which he dried up for us until we passed over, 24 so that all the peoples of the earth may  know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, that you may fear the LORD your God forever.”

Joshua 3:14