Gina Sewell is a mom and grandma who lives in the Dallas, Texas area, where she enjoys cooking and spending time with her family. She loves to write about Jesus and encourage others. Gina shares her journey on her website: http://www.ginabartonsewell.wordpress.com
Having Faith By Gina Sewell
In my walk with Christ, I have finally begun to hear things He has to say to me. I don’t hear Him nearly as often as I would like, but I know that’s not because He is not speaking to me. It is because I can’t always hear it. The chaos and noise of this world make it so hard to focus on Him sometimes the way I would like to. Meditation helps.... just letting all your thoughts and feelings go and just picturing His love surrounding you, enveloping you. That’s how I get my focus back, but it is hard in this world to keep your focus. A few months ago, I was going through a really hard time. It was one of those times that I just felt like nothing was going to work out the way I wanted it to. One Saturday morning I woke early to have my time with Jesus and as I was praying, I heard Him speak to me. I had been praying about the things that I felt I needed for a couple of weeks at that point and that day, very clearly, I heard Him speak these words in my spirit, “Have faith in what I’m doing for you.”
My first thought was, “Of course I have faith.” Then I thought, “Don’t I? What does He mean by that?” Upon further investigation into my feelings and thoughts, I realized I was asking Him for those things but not necessarily believing that He would provide them; certainly not that He couldn’t provide them, but more likely that He wouldn’t because I didn’t deserve them. Well, I don’t. But thankfully, His grace is sufficient. So, I began to not only believe that He would answer my prayer, I started thanking Him as well. Faith is knowing He will provide—and He will. “But to each of us, grace has been given as Christ apportioned it.” (Ephesians 4:7 NIV) “Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.” (Hebrews 4:16 NIV) “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1 NIV)
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