The Walk of Faith
Our journey with the Lord is by faith and not by sight—so if we want to go on with God, we must stop looking at things with our natural eyes. Spiritual things can only be understood with spiritual insight.
Think of Abraham. Romans 4:3 NASB says,
Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.
We don’t have any righteousness at all. We can’t possibly keep the law. We simply believe God.
Jesus tells us,
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life” (John 3:16)
The devil wants to discourage us and stop us from moving forward. So when going through hard times, it’s important to recall how God has come through in the past—and we can have every confidence that He will do it again.
I remember how our budget was so tight at CBN Asia in Manila that we had to pray hard to meet every payroll. Yet all that changed after we held an outreach in Varanasi, India, where 50,000 people came—and 5,000 people filled out salvation response cards. To teach all these new believers who knew nothing about Christianity, we wanted to create a pastoral training center. It was a great idea—except I didn’t have the money. I committed $5,000, but there wasn’t a penny more.
The next day I got an urgent call from my wife in Manila. She was so overwhelmed with emotion that I could hardly understand her. An anonymous donor had just sent a check for $500,000—a bank manager’s draft drawn on a bank in upstate New York that was hand-delivered to our office in the Philippines. It was an unbelievable miracle. We sowed the seed, and 24 hours later God gave an increase of 100-fold. We had a time of celebration!
Right now, God is giving us many open doors to take the Gospel into the world, and He wants us to take that step of faith and walk through.
We have the assurance that God has spoken. When we do what He wants in the world today, and when we do it in God’s way, we know that God is in it. And we simply need to say, “Yes and Amen!” God bless you.
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Scripture is quoted from the New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation. All rights reserved.
About The Author
GORDON ROBERTSON is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Christian Broadcasting Network, as well as a member of CBN’s Board of Directors. He is also Chancellor of Regent University and the Chairman of the Board of Operation Blessing, CBN’s humanitarian organization.
The son of Pat and Dede Robertson, Gordon graduated from Yale University in 1980 and earned his Juris Doctor degree from Washington and Lee University in 1984. He then practiced law in Norfolk, Virginia, for 10 years.
In 1994, Gordon had a profound encounter with the Lord and moved to the Philippines, where he established CBN Asia. The following year, he founded the Asian Center for Missions (ACM), dedicated to training and sending Asian missionaries throughout the world. ACM is now one of the largest missionary agencies in the Philippines with more than 2,000 graduates trained in cross-cultural missions.
In 1996, Gordon created CBN Asia’s flagship television show, The 700 Club Asia, which is now one of the longest-running Christian television shows in the Philippines and is distributed by satellite around the world. Also in 1996, CBN Asia started a humanitarian organization, Operation Blessing Philippines, which has been recognized as “NGO of the Year” by the Philippine government.
Over the next three years, Gordon launched CBN centers in Indonesia, India, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Thailand. He moved back to the United States in 1999 to serve at CBN’s headquarters in Virginia Beach.
As Executive Producer of The 700 Club, Gordon oversees all aspects of programming for the ministry. He hosts CBN’s original flagship program, The 700 Club; as well as 700 Club Interactive, a daily show airing on Freeform and online; and Miracle Living Today.
Gordon has produced a number of documentaries and features as Executive Producer of CBN Films, including:
- Oracles of God: The Story of the New Testament
- Oracles of God: The Story of the Old Testament
- Written in Stone four-part series: House of David, Kings and Prophets, Secrets of the Temple, and Jesus of Nazareth
- The Asbury Awakening
- I Am Patrick: The Patron Saint of Ireland
- Treasures of the Second Temple
- Christmas: The Story Behind the Traditions
- To Life: How Israeli Volunteers Are Changing the World
- In Our Hands: The Battle for Jerusalem
- The Hope: The Rebirth of Israel
- Whose Land Is It? Jewish and Arab Claims to Israel
- Made in Israel
- Temple of Heaven, filmed in China
Gordon is also Executive Producer of CBN Animation’s Superbook, the reimagined animation series. Its guiding mission is to bring the stories of the Bible to the children of the world in their own languages. With over 65 episodes completed, Superbook has been broadcast to millions of viewers in dozens of languages throughout the world. Other Superbook-themed videos are also being produced and released.
Gordon and his wife, Katharyn, reside in Virginia and have three grown children.
