Today, I was taking some time to catch up on people in blog world, and this post caught my eye! I know that this has been a downfall to me spiritually, and I thought that I would share what I found on Mrs. Fink's blog. You can click here to visit her! I'm sure she would be glad to hear from you!
Yesterday Sabrina called to tell me that everything has been approved for the house that they have been waiting to purchase. She was so excited and I am excited for her! Sabrina and Jeremy will celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary on July 2nd and now that there are four in their family now, they are ready to live in a little bigger place ~ one with a small yard and a washer and dryer that doesn't demand quarters :).
There is only one small problem. The condo that they live in right now needs to sell. They have had many lookers, but no buyer yet.
"I'm so excited about our new house!" Sabrina said as we talked on Sunday, "We took Kina and Jonathan over to see it and I got excited about it all over again after seeing it. If we could just sell our place, then everything would be perfect."
"It'll sell," I told her, "As soon as you move out, God will bring a buyer to move in. Empty places are the easiest ones to sell, because the buyer is able to see themselves moving right in."
"I know, but it just doesn't seem like so many people are buying around here."
"Then you know what?" I told her, "Let's put it on the Wednesday night prayer list and get everybody at church praying for it as well. God has answered so many prayers off of that list. God loves to answer the prayers of His people, and it doesn't really matter if anything else is selling around you or not, all it takes is God to send a buyer and it's sold. God loves His people Sabrina, and He especially loves those that have given their lives to serve Him."
"Your right Mom, I know that's true. And I believe it too."
If you want to starve your doubts to death, you must get busy feeding your faith.
Do you know what Sabrina went and did last night? She went to Home Depot and bought a bunch of stuff to help her house to get ready to "move in ready" when that buyer comes along in the next few weeks. She is spending her day proving her faith in God as she paints and grouts and caulks and cleans. She is preparing for the blessing. And that is what feeding your faith is all about.
So many women spend so much time sitting around feeding their doubts and wonder why their faith is so famished. They spend their days making a guest room for discouragement and defeat and then they wonder why they feel so depressed all of the time.
One of my very favorite passages in the Bible is found in I John 5:4-5, "For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?" Why do I love these verses so much? Because they remind me that Faith is the Victory!
I remember many, many years ago when I was a young Christian woman facing some mighty giant marriage problems. So many so-called believers counseled me to quit because of the greatness of my problems. So many of them had never seen anybody recover from some of the things that I was going through at the time.
And you know what? As I would sit there and listen to them, I would feel so discouraged. I loved my husband. I loved my children. I didn't want us to split up as a family. I wanted to forgive, forget and move on. But so many around me would remind me of the defeats that they knew of.
You know what I did? I found better friends!
The first friend I found was the Word of God, and as I would spend time reading God's Word, I was reminded, again and again that Faith is the Victory and that there is Nothing Impossible With God!
Then I found some friends that believed God and obeyed Him no matter how tough things got. I found them through the pages of missionary biographies, listening to testimonies of great saints on the radio, and in the pews and offices of my local church. Many of these friends joined with me in prayer and were used to mightily to remind me that God is able to do exceeding above anything that we could ever imagine (Ephesians 3:20).
And you know what? Miracles did happen! Healing did occur! Rebuilding began and it continued until all the ashes were turned into beauty and the oil of mourning was replaced by a fountain of joy.
Isaiah 61:1-3 tells us, "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified."
God sent Jesus to earth to pay the penalty for our sins and bring us faith. My faith in Jesus Christ has not only been given to save me, but to sustain me as well!
Do yourself a favor today and stop feeding your doubts. Decide right now that you are going to do all you can to starve those things to death!
How are you going to do it? By committing yourself to doing all you can to feed your faith. Stuff it with everything you can find. Grow it so large that there would not even be room enough for doubt to be squeezed in.
And you know what? After a while, when doubt realizes that there is no room for it to feel comfortable in your life, it will just give up hope and eventually quit coming around altogether :).
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