A few days later Mary hurried to the hill country of Judea,
to the town where Zechariah lived.
She entered the house and greeted Elizabeth.
At the sound of Mary’s greeting, Elizabeth’s child leaped within her,
and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
Elizabeth gave a glad cry and exclaimed to Mary,
“God has blessed you above all women, and your child is blessed.
Why am I so honored, that the mother of my Lord should visit me?
When I heard your greeting, the baby in my womb jumped for joy.
You are blessed because you believed that the Lord would do what he said.”
Luke 1:39-45 NLT
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“Blessed because you believed that God would do what he said.”
Blessed even before it came to pass.
Blessed purely on believing that it would.
The kind of Faith that steers a straight, steadfast course,
despite winds of doubt or waves of fear.
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God
whose ways you may not understand at the time.
Oswald Chambers
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Faith is to believe what you do not see;
the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint Augustine