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Old 02-15-2016, 08:52 PM
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What Do You Do When Your Faith Is Weak?

Really, what do you do?

What do you do when you're at your wits end about a situation, mentally drained, spiritually apathetic about it, ready to just walk away?

What I do?

I remember what the Lord has done in order to counteract the story that God just doesn't do.

I find older sermons to listen to again, to gain strength from the strong pronunciation of the Character of our God and Savior.

He will come and save you!

There is a scripture I will look up and post about fainting if I didn't believe that I had seen the goodness of the Lord in my life.

What do you do?

When it is just you and your thoughts and your own mind betrays you and your heart begins to grow cold as that root of bitterness begins to manifest itself... again?

That parent that never affirmed you.
That bully who scarred you.
That one job you almost had.
That one job you got fired from.
That loved one who passed away too soon.
That brother that wounded you.
That sister that almost destroyed you.
That battle you just lost the other day.
That shame because you knew better.
That God that you want to hide from.
That God that you want to scream at!
That thought that is fearful and strangely comforting.

That moment when it all seems to come together to tell you something that you KNOW can't be true, but it sure does seem true, in that dark, dark moment.

The Lord knows how to reach me, in that dark, dark moment.

He speaks to the little boy in me.
He tells me things... too precious to share with you on this public board.

Oh but He speaks to me.

He lets me hear His Voice.

He comes to me.

He lets me weep and He pulls me closer.

Asking why doesn't come across my mind when He pulls me closer.

I'm just glad He's there.

Then He Speaks to the man in me.

He reassures me of His Word, His Promises, His Character.

In that dark moment, He restores my soul.

He lets me see Him as my Light.

He gives me back my confidence.

Now I know, it's going to all work out.

He's going to do what I can't and maybe even a little more.

I can still hear Him say, "I got you."
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Re: What Do You Do When Your Faith Is Weak?

Jesus Christ, in this moment, I want to tell you how much I love You.

I really, really love You!
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Re: What Do You Do When Your Faith Is Weak?

Good thoughts.

I rebuild my faith from the truth of the Word.

I do what I teach our church to do. Realize I'm buried with Christ in His death so that God could unite me to Christ and raise me with Him so I'm now seated with him in heavenly places. That puts me over everything that could come against me. And i encourages me to know I have power over it all through Christ.

Satan threw his best at Christ and that was the power of death. And because Christ resurrected from that death, He overcame all the power of the devil. And since the same power that raised Christ is in me now, and it overcame the devil's greatest force of death, then what can the devil do to me with lesser things since I overcame the power of death through Christ?

And THAT encourages me.
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Really, what do you do?

What do you do when you're at your wits end about a situation, mentally drained, spiritually apathetic about it, ready to just walk away?

What I do?

I remember what the Lord has done in order to counteract the story that God just doesn't do.

I find older sermons to listen to again, to gain strength from the strong pronunciation of the Character of our God and Savior.

He will come and save you!

There is a scripture I will look up and post about fainting if I didn't believe that I had seen the goodness of the Lord in my life.

What do you do?

When it is just you and your thoughts and your own mind betrays you and your heart begins to grow cold as that root of bitterness begins to manifest itself... again?

That parent that never affirmed you.
That bully who scarred you.
That one job you almost had.
That one job you got fired from.
That loved one who passed away too soon.
That brother that wounded you.
That sister that almost destroyed you.
That battle you just lost the other day.
That shame because you knew better.
That God that you want to hide from.
That God that you want to scream at!
That thought that is fearful and strangely comforting.

That moment when it all seems to come together to tell you something that you KNOW can't be true, but it sure does seem true, in that dark, dark moment.

The Lord knows how to reach me, in that dark, dark moment.

He speaks to the little boy in me.
He tells me things... too precious to share with you on this public board.

Oh but He speaks to me.

He lets me hear His Voice.

He comes to me.

He lets me weep and He pulls me closer.

Asking why doesn't come across my mind when He pulls me closer.

I'm just glad He's there.
I think you should just change churches!
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"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.

"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."

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One of the MOST encouraging sermons ever!

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"Whatever the enemy does, God will either overrule it, He will undo it, or He will redeem it and make it serve His Purpose."
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