A few years ago I decided in January that I felt like it was right to start watching a program that one of the pastors I deeply enjoy was teaching.
Pastor Keith Moore has a class that is free called "Faith School."
It's been one of the best decisions of my life.
I have learned what Faith is, why its so important in our relationship with God and why it's important to live our lives with it.
Faith - Hebrews 11:1 NLT- "Faith shows the reality of what we hope for; it is the evidence of things we cannot see."
However, there is a lot of wrong teachings about faith out there. I have found people can have faith in the wrong thing- like having faith in their faith- that is not enough. It's faith in who God is. What He did for us - His love that allowed Him to give His son for us so that we could live out a life of peace and abundance.
It's Faith on what God has said in the Bible as a promise to us.
How this translates to my main concept - Who I am with Jesus? - Is that I believe what God says in the Bible above all else. That I act on it and live my life by it as it is true. Because it is.
2 Corinthians 5:17 NLT - "This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!"
How did this translate to my life? Well, To start out with when I started in Faith School I use to get really overwhelmed in my thought life when I was physically hurting. My mind wanted to contact my trainer, call the chiropractor, do this thing and rush at a hundred miles per hour.
That's not good and its not really acting like God is my source. Plus, it led to some really embarrassing moments for me when I reached out and was overwhelmed and so didn't think very clearly.
So I decided that as I started learning about having faith in God and what He has promised in the Bible that instead I would sit and purposefully still myself. I would tell my mind to quiet.
I would tell myself, " If no one answers you back or is there to help you today - you have God - who is the best personal trainer in the world because He made the Body and He knows exactly what is going on."
Then I would lean on what God said in the Bible.
James 1:5 NIV - "If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you."
I figured God should know the body better than anyone so I would remind myself if God was one that made my body and knew exactly what was going on that He could remind me of things that would be right for the situation.
I would also lean on - 2 Timothy 1:7 "The Spirit God gave us does not make us afraid. His Spirit is a source of power and love and self-control."
So for me - this is where I started at- by believing that God was going to give me wisdom because I was going to ask for it. That I didn't need to react in fear because that wasn't from God and that I could rest assured that He would come through because He is faithful.
Proverbs 30:5 "You can trust this: Every word that God speaks is true. God is a safe place for those who go to him."
Now as I've hit this point in my life I am also digging deeper into not only the promises that God has given about peace, knowledge and wisdom but I am also starting to see that I am a new person. That God has promised a new way of life for the Christian. This is where I'm starting to walk. This is what I'm navigating. To take a step of Faith not in Christianity, not in religion but in my God who wants a real relationship with me and to walk in who He says that I am because of what Jesus did.
This is where I'm going and I am resting in the fact that the God who has been so faithful this far will continue to guide and direct me in this direction of navigating the abundant life in Him that He has promised ( John 10:10).
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