How my Faith in God has changed over the years
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How my Faith in God has changed over the years

As the years increment, so will the stress, the worries of life and we need a greater level of faith to overcome those hardships.

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Jude 1:20-21
But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait
for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.

I can rest assured that many of us face a daily battle to believe in God to do great things. We are living under a world and a society where the devil wants to pollute, diminish, and dilute our faith by adding stress and insignificant demands in our life. I like to think of our faith as a small child; when a baby develops himself, the trials and circumstances that they face are miniature. Maybe their hardest tasks are being an excellent student, being around people and not giving into peer pressure. Their responsibilities are not in comparison to those of their parents, or their grandparents, or their teachers, or their elders. As the child becomes a teenager and becomes an adult, the problems begin to develop, and there is a greater level of character required to overcome those oppositions. Paying bills, working hard, providing for kids, and many more are among some of the tasks that adults require to give themselves to fulfilling. It requires a greater level of character to have a better job, or to sustain the finances, etc. The same way in my spiritual life as in the natural world, faith exists. Serving God for almost seven years seems tiny but in the spiritual world it means a lot! It has been seven years of pruning, serving God, and dying to see the kingdom of God manifest on this Earth. Not only that, but having to work hard and going to school to help make these things possible, as well.

I remember as a young child in the Lord, I didn’t have much demands as I do now. When I stepped into the doors in my church, my only responsibility was to love the Lord, serve Him, and bring people to church with me. While that continues to be the main and most significant responsibility, there are more tasks that are added onto me now. Among those tasks are teaching in my house of peace on a weekly basis, bringing souls to my church, working weekly full-time, going to school on a full-time basis, and having to help my family supply the needs of our home. There are so many things that I have learned about my faith. It stretches you. It pushes you. It gives you purpose. It gives you a reason to move forward. A person that is not self-motivated will never succeed in this world. I have realized the goal, and I am grateful to God for giving me that revelation to desire more.

This is the way that my faith has developed over the years. I have gone from a baby in the Lord, to going through hell in my house, but I’m still standing and serving the Lord with all of my heart. I’m not perfect, I’m not the best; I am far from being excellent. I am a human that makes mistakes, and I have probably made more mistakes than ordinary people. However, it is those mistakes that have made me be who I am today. I believe that anyone who hasn’t taken risks will never do great things in this world; we have to be a little crazy. That is what faith has done in my life. It has pushed me to break the limits in my life. It has challenged me to break paradigms, fortress, and dimensions that haven’t been crossed in my years with God. I see things differently than how I did when I started off with God, and I know that in another few years my point of view will change yet again. My faith continues to be developed as my relationship with my Creator increases. I believe that the same will emerge with you!

I urge you to review the Bible scripture at the beginning of this post, and saturate and meditate on it for the rest of the day. It reminds us to keep ourselves in love by building up our faith and praying in the Spirit. We have received our measure, our faith and I want to make sure that it continues rising, so that I can see the most miraculous miracles, in Jesus name!

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