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What Do You Believe About God?
What we believe about God is the most important thing about us. Knowing God’s character and believing He is good despite circumstances are what anchored my husband Ryan and I when we walked through three miscarriages in less than a year. This heartache was not what we planned when we began our prayer journey of intentional, specific, and bold requests.
To us, such personal setback despite a flourishing ministry felt like another dagger in what seemed like an unending attack or attempt to mock our faith. Our pain definitely did not look like answers to our prayers!
Life and life’s experiences caused each of us to question God. We question His goodness. We question His plan. We may even question His existence. The hopeful thing about our questions is that God’s word directs us. The questions are certain, and so are the answers. In the Bible, God tells us who He is, what He thinks, how He acts, and how much He loves us.
The unrest comes because we don’t want to believe that God has that much control over our lives. It’s hard surrendering to the idea that our lives are bigger than we are. Determining who we believe God is and how He works will determine how we handle tragedy, how we handle blessing, how we handle doubts, and how we handle life.
What we believe about God is the choice we make before the tragedy, before the pain, before the questions, and before the heartache. We must decide what we think about God and choose what we believe about Him before our beliefs are challenged, questioned, or threatened. This is the order that will help preserve your faith: decide what you think about God, then live it out when difficult times come. This firm foundation is vital for spiritual survival and for dream survival.
Deciding to hold on to the dreams God gives us even when we lose pregnancies, jobs, friends, or status is what sets dreamers apart. I had to choose to believe that God is good, He is in control, and He loves me in order to keep going during our season of miscarriages and loss. This is also the choice you can make in order to not lose heart and to keep going.
Ask God to give you faith to believe He is who He says He is and to take Him at His word.
About this Plan
What keeps you from praying big prayers? In sharing her story of God's life-changing answers to bold prayers, Julia Jeffress Sadler brings the challenge to take God at His Word and see Him move like never before. This week, we will learn how to pray with boldness and watch expectantly for God's answers. The true rarity is not in God’s answering big prayers but in our asking big prayers.
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