February 28, 2024 … Overcoming Our Doubts

February 28, 2024 … Overcoming Our Doubts 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from Bill Gaither singing … I Believe; Help Thou My Unbelief …  Poignantly singing of how a Christian prays for God to help  them (us) over come their (our) doubts.  

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Highlight Passage: … Mark 9:24  [NLT] …

24 The father instantly cried out, “I do believe, but help me overcome my unbelief!”            

… The father of his boy pleads with Jesus to help the father overcome any unbelief he might have.       

Highlight Passage (in context) … Mark 9:14-29 … USE THIS LINK … 

… John Mark relates Jesus healing a demon possessed boy, showing His disciples that sometimes only prayer - in surrendered faith - is what it takes to overcome our doubts and seek God’s empowering grace.    

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Reference Passage: … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Solomon calls on believers to overcome our circumstances and fears by trusting in God and avoiding taking on the world by our own devices.           

Reference Passage: … Isaiah 55:8-9 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… Sometimes God’s thoughts and His ways are simply beyond our ability to understand which tests our faith to seek His grace.   

Reference Passage: … Mark 11:23-24  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… Jesus declares that his followers and disciples musts exercise their (our) surrendered faith to overcome our doubts.    

Reference Passage: … Romans 10:17 [NLT] …  

17 So faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the Good News about Christ. 

… The Apostle Paul exhorts fellow Christians that their faith comes from hearing and applying God’s word to their (our) lives.             

Reference Passage: … James 1:6-8 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… James reaches fellow Christians that we must be “sold out” in our faith with NO selfish/divided loyalties.   

Reference Passage: … 1Peter 5:7  [NLT] …  

7  Give ALL your worries and cares to God, for HE cares about you.   

… Peter assures fellow Christians that we can give ALL our cares to God, Who cares deeply about them (us).                          

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author, Adam Holz-  AT THIS LINK -   shares a surprising quote from Mother Theresa, who said, “Where is my Faith?—even deep down right in there is nothing but emptiness & darkness. . . . If there be God—please forgive me.”.   

And those words are confessions of times of doubt that all of us Christians can have, … yes, even stalwarts of faith like Mother Theresa.  Perhaps some - maybe even ALL - of my readers today have feelings of doubt as we seek to follow our Lord to glory.  But if you’ve take in the linked song from Bill Gaither (PLEASE DO!) and meditated on the Scriptures above (PLEASE DO!), we can all be bolstered in faith by God’s truth, calling us to surrender our feelings and yield to God’s promises to provide us with His enabling/empowering grace.  And that’s enough for me; … how about you?             

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving me Your grace-driven promises to rely upon.      

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me, … to surrender our faith to follow You, Lord, today … and tomorrow!     Amen  

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