This week God taught me a lot about faith. Faith includes trusting God’s word. Faith is about trusting things we can’t see. I sometimes use “walking on the water” to describe “living by faith”. If God tells you to walk on the water, faith means to trust that He can do it and go do what he tells you to do, although it seems not common by worldly understandings. In the same way, if God tells me to do something that not a lot of people do, or something I don’t feel like doing, having faith means to trust that God is good, that he wants to give me the best, that he can accomplish it and that I get to surrender to his will. I pray that I can be more faithful.
Last night, a very important person in my life accepted Christ. Praise the Lord. Right now, I still feel unreal. I thank God for working in his life. I thank God for moving his heart. I didn’t realize that this day would come so soon. I pray for spiritual protection. I pray that his faith can be strengthened. I also pray for wisdom how God wants me to be involved in God’s ministry to him. I also pray that when I try to teach him more about God, I will totally depend on the Holy Spirit to know what to say and when to stop, so that he won’t have any misunderstanding about God because of something I did.
At such an exciting moment I realized that I still need to have faith. I realized that I was worrying because we don’t live in the same city and what I can do to help him grow spiritually is limited. However, the Bible tells us that it is God who does the work. The Bible also tells us that if we pray according to God’s will, he will hear. So, by faith, I should turn all my worries to God and put everything in his hand.
For many times, God taught me to be more faithful and to rely on him more.
One time is when I was writing my journal and putting down my prayer list, I realized there were so many things to pray about and with my own strength I couldn’t manage it; I couldn’t solve all the problems by myself. Actually, whenever I tried to achieve something with my own strength, I fail. God was teaching me to pray to him and let him work on this whole list. God wants me to be faithful and trust that God can do it.
God disciplined me to rely on him when I was tempted to find satisfaction on other things or when I have other priorities. When I feel empty or bored sometimes, it is easy for me to keep scrolling down my phone for hours, watch youtube videos for hours, or recently spend too much time on the world cup. I also tend to find satisfaction from things like others’ compliments to me, possessions, or my appearance. Those things are real temptations that drag me away from God. I might find temporary happiness in those but eventually that feeling will lost and I will fall into a sense of sadness or emptiness again, which was kind of painful. I think God wants to use those painful feelings to discipline me that Only God is the true source of joy and fulfillment. There’s no other gods.
There are some of my prayer requests:
- I pray that my mom can turn away from idols and know the true God.
- I pray that I could build deeper relationship with students coming to my Bible Study group and help them walk on their spiritual journey.
- I want to learn Spanish. I pray for time and wisdom.
- I pray that I can grow in my relationship with God.
Thank you for reading.
Lin