Showing posts with label doubt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label doubt. Show all posts

Sunday 29 March 2015

Have faith in your faith...doubt your doubts





“For thus said the Lord Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. And ye would not:” (Isaiah 30:15 ASV) 

 “But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.” (James 1:6 ASV)






Have faith in your faith...doubt your doubts.

Confidence "Develop it!" Learn and live out! "Hold it!"
... In quietness and confidence shall be your strength ...

Ask in faith with no doubting


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Tuesday 3 February 2015

When you don't know what to do and hate yourself

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Life at certain moments can look not so pleasant.
Everyone has to undergo certain afflictions, be it growing up with lots of falling down, with or without much love and heart break, gain and loss.



It can well be at certain moments that you do not like yourself, that you do not like the other, that you do not like a certain situation. Know that it are moments which can come over you, creating doubt, creating questions, making you fearful, making you not sure, sometimes even causing pain.

Each day is different and can have us feeling different, looking at things in a different way. Often the way we look at things or the way we feel things depends on the way we are willing to place ourselves in the context and how we want to relate to what is happening.

The best thing to tackle life is first getting to know yourself and making yourself prepared and willing to see and cope with the good and bad elements in yourself. Loving yourself is 'primordial'.
From Scriptures you can learn that you too are created in the image of God and as such should have qualities which the Creator has Himself also and has been willing to share with you. He has given His Word and His knowledge to share with the whole world and you can make use of it. It can strengthen you and give lots of advice to make the best out of life.

The Bible is there to be used and to fill your life with certainties on which you can build.

when you are willing to come in humbleness to the Most High, He is willing to listen to your soft voice, to your wishes, to your hopes and see your dreams. As God's only begotten son told "Knock and the door shall be opened",  "Ask and it shall be given", but never forget to ask that it shall be God His will that shall come over you and fulfil your life according to His Wishes.

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Find also to read:

Affliction and YOU: We have work to do
I Don't Know What To Do! Seek, you shall find.


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Saturday 28 August 2010

Know by trying





"you will never know what you can do until you try.
However the sad truth is
that most people never try anything until they know they can do it."

- Bob Proctor

Those who doubt most, and yet strive to overcome their doubts,
turn out to be some of Christ's strongest disciples.

- Selwyn Hughes


"I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, complete in knowledge and competent to instruct one another."
(Ro 15:14 NIV)

"He said to them, "Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds?" (Lu 24:38 NIV)

Always try to do good to each other, indeed, to everyone.
1 Thessalonians 5:15b

Do not try to trick people
1 Thessalonians 2: 3b

God, let us dare
to undertake some steps.
  Take care there for that if we
try certain things
we'll try
nobody to bring over to
go
till deviation
or
to bring until dishonesty or deception,
but give us the power
to step in Jesus footsteps
 and
to do the right acts. 

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Sunday 10 May 2009

Let me keep to "first importance" things

For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve.



Thoughts
Phil Ware    Some things are "first importance" things. They lie at the heart of the matter and are central to the issue at hand. For us as Christians, we don't have to doubt what those "first importance" things are. The Gospel of our salvation is built on one simple foundation: Jesus died, Jesus was buried, Jesus rose from the grave, and Jesus appeared to his disciples who were never the same after witnessing their resurrected Saviour. Let's not let anyone distract us from these core truths or crowd out their simplicity with other matters they may claim to be essential. Our salvation is rooted in our faith and our participation in this simple, yet powerful Gospel.

Prayer
    Dear God, I confess my faith in your work for me in Jesus. I believe that your Son and my Saviour, Jesus, was crucified by wicked men just as you had said long ago in your Word. I believe his dead and lifeless body was placed in the tomb. I believe that on the third day, you brought him back to life, just as you promised. I believe that those most destroyed by his death, those who knew him best, saw him alive again. I believe their lives were never the same. I believe, dear Father, that as I have confessed my faith in Jesus and shared with him in his death, burial, and resurrection through baptism that my life is caught up with him in your salvation and victory over death. I praise you for this grace. I thank you for this assurance. I look forward to sharing in your glory when he returns for me. Thank you for my salvation, in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Saturday 21 March 2009

Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.



"Faith is knowing there is an ocean
because you have seen a brook."
- William Arthur Ward (1921-1994)

"Faith is the hostess that will not entertain doubt."
- Jenna Wright

"Faith is to believe what you do not see;
the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."
- Peter Julian Eymard

"Though now you do not see Him, yet believing,
you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,
receiving the end of your faith - the salvation of your souls."
1 Peter 1:8-9

"If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God,
who gives to all liberally and without reproach,
and it will be given to him.
But let him ask in faith, with no doubting,
for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind."
James 1:5-6

"These all died in faith, not having received the promises,
but having seen them afar off were assured of them,
embraced them, and confessed that
they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith,
did not receive the promise,
God having provided something better for us,
that they should not be made perfect apart from us."
Hebrews 11:13-14, 39-40


Hear, O Jehovah, my prayer, hear how I beg for your assistance;
o remain for my weep not deaf,
 I am only a stranger to you, a lodger - as all my fathers.
In You I want to make sure that you are the creator of heaven and earth
who has foreseen for me the promise of paradise,
where I no longer have to stay as a foreigner.
Give me the right and strong faith.
May You the God of hope carry me with all joy and peace in believing, so that I abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Spirit.


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Thursday 25 December 2008

Prayer has the power to change mountains into highways

"Prayer has the power to change mountains into highways."
- Wesley L. Duewel

"Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and it will be done. If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.""
Matthew 21:21-22
The Evangelists Matthew and Mark from a Gospel...
The Evangelists Matthew and Mark from a Gospel Book, St. Matthew, Walters Manuscript W.530.D-E, fol. W.530.Er (Photo credit: Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts)
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