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30 days of faith, Angie Sarich, Cady Mcclain, faith, Feeling of Failure, Leigh Gray, Speaking thru me ministries
We all have the little voice inside our head that tells us, ” You can’t do this, or you can’t do that, or you will never be as good as this person, or you could never really make it doing this…”
LIES. LIES. LIES!
I have been dealing with something in my personal life. You can honestly say Job is my BFF right now. I am totally okay in saying that, because I have grown to have so much appreciation for his story.
We don’t understand completely what happened to him in his life, but we can understand that we’ve all had times where we just didn’t understand WHY things were happening as they were.
Usually, when we aren’t doing well at something we easily can feel like a ” failure”- its the major thing I can commend Job for, is that he didn’t let his friends help him decide who he said God was, he really kept true to what he believed.
His friends believed he was a failure due to his sin, but God didn’t believe that about Job…
God KNEW from the beginning that Job would succeed in staying true in his heart for God.
God knows that about us too. God sees what we are going through, He sees that we are struggling.
And honestly, I can tell you this, its as EASY as asking Him in simple words like I did,
” Lord, I just need you to be the center of this situation right now, I need you to be in complete control,
and do with it, whatever you will.”
The next time I approached this situation, I was feeling so afraid of not doing well, of really falling on my face, and I just literally felt like a failure where I had started out succeeding so well.
I am going to use the latest quote by Beth Moore, because it so just paints a picture for us,
” If your area of effectiveness is being under attack, and it lasts more than 3 days, it is more than just hormones.”
Basically, I was allowing the feeling and fear of failure encompass my very life, I was allowing it to scare me to the point that I was SHAKING when I walked into this situation.
But I found out, I had no reason to be so afraid; God had already handled it…everything was a complete turnover.
I was in awe.
So let me tell you this. Don’t allow the enemy or ANYONE to make you feel like you can’t do something well, or something about you isn’t good enough…IT IS A LIE! We are placed where we are for PURPOSE, and the enemy knows this!
Don’t let him get a foothold on the beautiful things God lays in your hands…regardless of how difficult it is,
LET HIM BE IN CONTROL…
We can’t fail if we have faith on our side:)
Below you find my next guest poster for ” 30 Days Of Faith”-
Her name isLeigh Gray, and she is a author and speaker of ” Speaking Thru Me Ministries.”
I met her through Beth Moore’s LPM blog, and she is just such a delight and a wise woman.
I love how she is straight to the point with people, she doesn’t sugarcoat anything…
Its the best way to be.
Please read below her words on her thoughts of ” Faith”:)
Putting Feet to Faith
Faith can be such a daunting part of the Christian walk to understand and figure out. Once I think I have finally have it all mapped out in my mind and heart then life happens to change its course. Life has a way of doing that.
I think I have been the greatest of all conference attenders. If there was a speaker coming in a 100 mile radius I was there and have all the books, t-shirts, CD’s, DVD’s, etc. to prove it. The massive amounts of Biblical teaching that I have gleaned that was suppose to bolster my faith is nearly unfathomable.
The scripture states in James 2:17, “In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.” Those inspired words written by James, brother of Jesus, came alive to me after many internal struggles trying to figure out why my faith didn’t feel like life to me. Why did my faith not look like the speakers’ described? Why would I go home after every conference and always be the same. What I now know is that I was operating on a “dead” faith.
Yes, I knew my Savior and He was my Lord, but until I put feet to my faith it didn’t seem like the life all the speakers had implored me to risk in. Once I began to step out and act on the faith things began to click and make sense in my heart and mind. When I gave to a struggling family clothes and food I began to understand how He provides for me…my faith was engaged! As I forgave even when it was not asked I could see the mercy of God exuded in me…my faith was lit! And the time I was able to love the person that has hurt me time and time again can only be done when a faith is engaged and Christ’s love is fueled…my faith was alive!!!
I hope you can see it is possible to sit on the sidelines, a saved believer with a faith that has never been engaged and made alive. I did not want to live my Christian walk in the realm of those that just don’t “get it”. I wanted a complete, fully working faith that is alive and well! Is your faith alive or dead? Have you put feet to your faith?
James 2:20-24 “You foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless? Was not our ancestor Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend. You see that a person is justified by what he does and not by faith alone.”
Leigh Gray
wife, momma, speaker, writer, fun-starter!
www.leighhargisgray.blogspot.com
