Category: A Faith in Process

Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He’s sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped. Charles Stanley So do not worry about…

Worry: give way to anxiety or unease; allow one’s mind to dwell on difficulty or troubles ********** “Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don’t want.” Abraham Hicks Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear. Corrie Ten Boom Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow…

Anxiety: apprehensive uneasiness or nervousness usually over an impending or anticipated ill ********** The immediate effects of anxiety can include rapid breathing and/or heart rate, and trembling. Your body is readying itself for fight or flight in the face of danger. This is a normal – and healthy – response. But some of us seem to…

“Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.”  C.S. Lewis “Only in a world where faith is difficult can faith exist.”Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith “Faith is not believing in my own…

Doubt is not necessarily the end of real faith, but often the beginning.  Craig Groeschel ********** Shortly before dawn Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake. When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. “It’s a ghost,” they said, and cried out in fear.But Jesus immediately said to them: “Take courage! It is…

(See Job 42:7-16 NLT) In the end when God does speak, it is not the pious friends who are commended.  God tells them they have been guilty of misrepresenting God.  Only Job – only angry, defiant, doubting Job has been faithful.  The story of Job reminds us that God is not offended when we question. …

The Bible is full of doubting people. Abraham and Sarah doubted that God would give them a child. (Genesis 16-18) Asaph, David’s chief musician, doubted because the wicked prospered, and doubted the value of serving God. (Psalm 73) Job doubted God’s goodness and justice. (More on Job later.) Moses doubted that God could use him…

As I was going through some of my husband’s old papers, I found this quote, hand-printed on a 3×5 card. “If faith never encounters doubt, if truth never struggles with error, if good never battles evil, how can faith know its own power? In my own pilgrimage, if I had to choose between a faith…

Always remember, your focus determines your reality.  George Lucas

FOCAL POINT: the center and concentration of attention or energy, the most important or emphasized feature If you live your life animated by the flesh—namely, your fallen, corrupt nature—then your mind is focused on the matters of the flesh. But if you live your life animated by the Spirit—namely, God’s indwelling presence—then your focus is…