You Were Made to Walk with God
Imagine sitting around a campfire listening to your great-great-great-great-grandfather tell stories about what life was like in the beginning. I'm not talking about stories passed down through generations but firsthand accounts—real memories, actual encounters. I believe that's what happened with Enoch.
I imagine Adam gathering his family—his children, grandchildren, and every generation after—and telling them what it was like to walk with God in the cool of the day, talking about the relationship, the closeness... the intimacy. He would have spoken with urgency, because he wanted them to know "You were made for this. You can walk with God just like I did." And out of everyone sitting around that fire, one young boy would have been locked in. His name was Enoch.
I imagine Enoch heard it. He got it. And the Bible says he walked with God so closely that one day God just took him—no death, no funeral. It's as if God said, "You're here all the time anyway. You might as well move in."
That's what happens when walking with God becomes your priority. But here's the reality: Most of us struggle to believe we can actually walk with God the way Enoch did, not because God changed, not because the invitation disappeared, but because doubt has convinced us that kind of faith requires something we don't have. It's time to destroy that lie.
The Three Demons of Doubt
There are three specific ways doubt tries to steal your faith:
1. Mental Reasoning
This demon whispers the logic of the natural mind to override the revelation of the Spirit. He wants you limited to what you can think your way through.
2. Emotional Faithlessness
He rides on the winds of your feelings. If you don't feel strong, he tells you you're weak. If you don't feel healed, he tells you you're still sick. If you don't feel breakthrough, he tells you it hasn't happened yet. He talks you out of the power of the cross.
3. Head Doubt
He interprets what you see as reality. He wants you limited to what you can see with your eyes instead of what God has already said in His Word.
Mental reasoning wants you limited to what you think. Emotional faithlessness wants you limited to what you feel. Head doubt wants you limited to what you see. And all three of them are coming after the wrong place. (Photo via Pixabay)
Faith Was Never Designed for Your Head
Here's what changes everything: Jesus never asked you to have head faith. Look at Mark 11:22–24. Jesus says, "Have faith in God. Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is going to happen, it will be granted to him. Therefore, I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they will be granted to you" (NASB, italics added).
Did you catch that? He didn't say, "Don't doubt in your head." He said, "Don't doubt in your heart." That means you can believe in your heart and have doubt in your head at the same time. Faith will still work even with doubt shouting in your mind, as long as you don't let doubt be the loudest voice.
Your heart is your inner man, your spirit—the place where Christ lives. The demons of doubt don't have access there. That ground is sealed. But they do have access to your soul—your mind, will, and emotions—if you let them.
So many Believers have been walking around under condemnation, thinking their faith is weak because their thoughts don't line up. But God never required you to have head faith. He only needs a mustard seed of heart faith, that's it.
Believe in Your Heart and Confess with Your Mouth
Romans 10:10 makes it clear: "With the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation" (NASB).
Heart and mouth—that's the connection. Faith happens in your heart. But your world is shaped by what you speak. It's not enough to believe it quietly. You have to say it. You have to speak to the mountain. Jesus didn't say, "Ask Me to move the mountain for you." He said, "You say to the mountain..."
When your heart believes and your mouth speaks, mountains start to move—even if your head is still arguing. Think about Peter. In John 6, Jesus said some hard things. Most of the disciples walked away. Jesus turned to Peter and asked, "Are you leaving too?" Peter didn't say, "I understand everything You just said." He said, "Lord, where else would I go? You have the words of life" (see John 6:68).
Peter didn't need to understand before he believed. He just knew that when Jesus spoke, something happened in his heart. His mind could catch up later. That's heart faith.
The Devil Isn't Afraid of Your Intellect
The enemy is not intimidated by how smart you are. He's not worried about your Bible knowledge or your theological degrees. He's afraid of when your faith hits your mouth. When you believe in your heart what God has said and you start speaking it out loud, the enemy loses his voice. Mountains begin to move. Circumstances start shifting. Healing manifests. Breakthrough comes. Because faith is not the absence of symptoms. Faith is the presence of the Word in your heart and on your lips. (Photo via Pexels)
Jesus paid your debt 2,000 years ago. He died for your spirit so you could be born again. He was a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief, so your soul (mind, will, and emotions) could be healed. He was bruised and crushed so your body could be made whole—spirit, soul, and body—complete redemption, not partial, not someday... finished.
If you believe that you have already received it (past tense), then it will be granted to you. That's what Jesus said in Mark 11:24. The question is will you agree with what He already did, or will you keep waiting for your head to catch up?
How to Walk in Heart Faith Daily
Here's how you start destroying doubt and walking in the authority God already gave you: Every morning, make a decision in your heart that God's Word is true. Then speak it. Say it out loud: "Lord, with my heart I believe and with my mouth I confess that I am healed, I am blessed, I am forgiven, I am set free, I walk in Your authority today."
Your head may shout at you. Doubt may try to rush in. Circumstances may not look like they've changed yet, but your heart knows the truth. And when your mouth agrees with your heart, mountains move.
You don't need perfect understanding. You don't need all your feelings lined up... You just need a mustard seed—a decision in your heart, a declaration in your mouth. That's it.
A Prayer to Break Agreement With Doubt
If you've been trying to have head faith and it's been exhausting, here's a prayer to pray right now:
In the name of Jesus, I break agreement with doubt. I break agreement with fear, with confusion, and with soulish reasoning. I agree with the Word of God. I believe what is written. I believe and receive my provision, healing, and breakthrough. I open my heart to believe God's Word, and I open my mouth to speak it. Amen.
This is not about performance. This is about partnership. God already finished the work. You just get to step into it. Enoch didn't earn his way into walking with God. He just believed it was possible and made it his priority. You were made for the same thing.
"By faith Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death; and he was not found because God took him up; for before he was taken up, he was attested to have been pleasing to God. And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for the one who comes to God must believe that He exists, and that He proves to be One who rewards those who seek Him." (Hebrews 11:5–6 NASB)
Let the Holy Spirit stir up the faith that's already in your heart. It's time to stop trying to believe in your head and start walking in the authority you already carry!
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Bobby Haaby, Senior Leader
Eagle Mountain Ministries
Email: office@eaglemountainfellowship.org
Website: www.eaglemountain.global
Bobby and Becky Haaby are the Senior Leaders at Eagle Mountain Fellowship, a church they planted in Bend, Oregon. Founder, leader, big picture dreamer, servant to all, Bobby is passionate about equipping and releasing the Body of Christ to be and do. He desires to see the Bride released into the revelatory realms of the Kingdom of Heaven. Bobby operates in the gifts of the Holy Spirit and seeks to live a life of intimacy and integrity before the Father. Bobby loves to present the power of God to pre-Christians and loves to refresh and train the Body of Christ to do the work of the Gospel. Bobby enjoys seeing sons and daughters grow into great leaders. As a mobilizer, he thrives on equipping and sending out teams to break into new territory as Heaven invades the earth. To Bobby, team ministry is a top priority, creating a culture where church looks more like a training center than a lecture hall.
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