It was a message on faith and enemies of faith: ignorance, unbelief, fear, doubt and discouragement. I sat there taking notes like I was preparing for an exam and realized just how many times I had let discouragement shake my faith. Whether it was on the day that I needed to finish a spoken word piece for a show or realizing that nobody is reading the blog post I was so excited about or while watching Say Yes to the Dress wondering why so many of my friends had said their "I do's" and I was still just.....I. My faith was so shaky sometimes that I would ask other people to pray for me because I was struggling just to pray for myself.
But yesterday in two separate instances I was encouraged and reminded that faith is a powerful thing....and discouragement creeps in like a whisper and wipes out your power like a tsunami.
So I'm blogging again. I'm encouraged to keep praying, keep learning, keep growing, keep sharing and keep my faith strong.
What is faith? It is the confident assurance that what we hope for is going to happen. It is the evidence of things we cannot yet see. God gave his approval to people in days of old because of their faith. By faith we understand that the entire universe was formed at God's command, that what we now see did not come from anything that can be seen.
(Hebrews 11:1-3 NLT)
...And since it's also Music Monday, enjoy this little ditty by Level 3:16.
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