Thank you for joining me this week as I celebrate 1 year of blogging. \u00a0The journey has been an interesting ride. \u00a0I thought I’d just be writing, an easy task since writing’s all I’ve every done consistently since childhood. \u00a0But it’s been so much more than that. \u00a0It’s been about me connecting hearts and mind with my readers. \u00a0It’s been about me growing in my relationship with Christ. \u00a0It’s been about me learning how to truly be authentic, transparent and vulnerable. \u00a0Before those were merely buzz words, now they are personal.<\/p>\n
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With that in mind, I’m reposting the TOP VIEWED<\/strong> post in my year of blogging. \u00a0I never imagined before I began that I’d let readers into such a raw space but given the views of this post, readers can identify with honesty. \u00a0While my faith has increased since the post, I’m still a work in progress. \u00a0Coming up this weekend I’m supposed to take another faith move but right now I’m quaking in my boots trying to find an escape route.<\/p>\n Lawd, help me!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Thank you for walking alongside me on the journey. \u00a0Be blessed.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ok, so I\u2019ve got faith issues. Twice last week God gave me a vision of what He thinks I\u2019m capable of. And twice last week I threw blankets of doubt over the visions, smoldering them with my limited thinking and lack of belief. I know I have faith issues.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I was watch a teaching and the man stated, \u201cIf you say things like \u2018I just don\u2019t see how\u2019 or \u2018I just can\u2019t see that happening\u2019, you have a faith issue. Yup, that\u2019s me. I often rehearse statements like that in my head. But again God in his faithfulness led me right to His word to shed light. I opened my bible to read about His willingness to heal the lepers. Then He drew my eyes a couple verses over. He tells Simon to let down his nets. And Simon responds just as I would have done, with doubt and disbelief. \u201cLord, I don\u2019t see how that\u2019s gonna work\u201d. I know I have faith issues.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This year my One Word 365<\/a> is courage. I am believing God to give me bold faith and the courage to move beyond fears so that I can carry out all He\u2019s called me to do, uninhibited. A few weeks ago I was cleaning out a purse and found some notes from a Sunday service in October of 2014 where we had a visiting pastor. His message was from 1 Samuel 17 and was entitled \u201cI Am A Giant Slayer\u201d. Finding these notes was so timely as I have been engaged in spiritual warfare<\/a>. It also confirmed for me my word for this year on having courage.\u00a0\u00a0 Then that Sunday my Pastor began a multipart teaching from the SAME text entitled Facing Your Giant! Our God is so loving and so timely that he uses others to be His mouthpiece to declare His truths so that we can be free!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n God knows I believe but I\u2019m scared. Scared of being let down. Scared of being hurt. Scared of being rejected. Scared of disappointment. But He is so faithful and loves me so much that He is confirming His word to me time and time again. And He loves you too and will communication His truth to you. Just have an open heart and an open mind to receive. Yes, I have faith issues, but He\u2019s increasing my faith.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jesus please don\u2019t scold me as you did those standing around when you healed the mute boy. \u201cOh you faithless generation\u201d you exclaimed. My cry Jesus is that of the boy\u2019s father, \u201cI believe but help my unbelief\u201d.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The question is not IF GOD CAN,<\/em> as the boy\u2019s father asks. Jesus clarifies that for us in giving the man\u2019s question back to him \u201cIf I can\u201d. So I\u2019ve shifted. I know you CAN God, but are you willing to do it for me?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And He\u2019s already answered that for me too. He is willing. Just as He told the lepers in Luke 5:12-13, \u201cI Am Willing\u201d, [bctt tweet=”He\u2019s assuring us, not only is He ABLE but He is also WILLING.”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I thank God that He doesn\u2019t leave us where we are but loves us so much that He sheds His light on every crevice, recess and crack in our hearts to expose them to His truth.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Oh God strengthen my microscopic faith. Magnify it Oh God. Have compassion on me. Take my mustard seed faith, plant it in nutrient rich soil and water it Lord so that it may grow radically.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Yes I have faith issues, but He\u2019s strengthening my faith.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n One commentary I read said if your faith could lay hold of His Omnipotence all is done. So Lord my faith lays hold of your limitless power. I believe you are able. I know that you love me. And I know that you are willing thus it is so.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Do I have issues with faith? Yes. But I am being transformed.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mustard seed faith? Yup.<\/p>\n Bold faith? Walking toward it.<\/p>\n Radical faith? Right on the horizon.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I stretch forth, break forth and move forward in faith.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A few points to ponder:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Do you struggle with faith?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n How have you increased your faith?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n How had God been faithful to you?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Matthew 9:28-29<\/a><\/p>\n Mark 9:14-29<\/a><\/p>\n Luke 5:4-11<\/a><\/p>\nBold Faith? Nope.<\/h2>\n
Radical Faith? Uh-uh.<\/h3>\n
Mustard Seed Faith? Some days.<\/h4>\n
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