Soaring above the clouds

Are you willing to defy your own doubt to follow your dreams?? Sometimes it's not the lack of confidence someone else has in you that stops you, sometimes it's your own doubt that puts a blockade up between you and self esteem. I would know, because I'm a pro at over thinking things all the time! Did you know that your doubt can become your belief? What an oxy moron!! Doubt becoming a belief?! But it's seriously true! Jesus says what you think in your heart so you are! Some people would say, "So, if I believe I can fly, will it happen?!" This is the point where I like to get obnoxious! I would say, "That depends on your definition of flight! Are you going to soar through life free of having to worry like Jesus said? Cause mountains to move because of soaring faith, heal the sick and see the lame walk?! That's my definition of soaring, being lifted up on the wings of eagles! Isaiah 40:31 says, "Yet, the strength of those who wait with hope in the Lord will be renewed. (coughs, hope goes hand in hand with faith) They will soar on wings like eagles. They will run and not be weary. They will walk and won't grow tired." If u ask me that's way better than just, ya know, flying! So how does doubt become our belief?? When we believe we can't do something so much more than we believe we can. That's when doubt becomes an automatic reaction to something that seems bigger than we can accomplish; which that's the opposite of faith. God always wants us to focus on faith, but not just any kind, faith in ourselves! The entire New Testament is focused on building yourself up in God, believing you can do ALL things, building a foundation on the word--with what? Faith! Unfortunately, we can have faith in our failures, our mistakes, and our doubt; meaning we believe that we will fail and have more mistakes than triumphs. We can doubt something or someone (including ourselves) so much that it becomes our main focus, so much so--that our faith actually works against us because we're directing it at the negative.

There was one time I had a sleep over, and my friend was getting ready for bed; she couldn't find her diary key. So she kept saying, "I can't find it, I don't know where it is, I don't know, I don't know, I don't now!" Finally I decided to try something, I said, "Hey, relax, say you can find it." She looked at me like I had grown two heads! And she asked, "Why?" "Just try it," I said. Two minutes later she found that diary key. I know this story doesn't seem big and elaborate, but sometimes it's the little things that count! And having faith in yourself and in other things doesn't always make things instantaneous like that, the point of faith is believing even when you can't see it for a little while. (which can sometimes be days, weeks, or years) A lot of times things take a little while to surface because God is working off of your faith and getting things set up in your life so they can happen. I can definitely say that faith has changed my world around!


Faith actually becomes a way of life for me, because after awhile I start feeling like I want to believe for more and more things! Not just in my life, but in other people's. And the more I have faith, the more I realize that the faith I have in God and in myself actually encourages the people around me to do the same. 1 Thessalonians 3:6-8 says, "But Timothy has just now come back to us from you and has told us the good news about your faith and love. He also told us that you always have fond memories of us and want to see us, as we want to see you. So brothers and sisters, your faith has encouraged us in all our distress and trouble. Now we can go on living as long as you keep your relationship with the Lord firm." Paul, one of God's main apostles was blessed AND encouraged by someone else's faith! But it wasn't just Paul, an entire church was too. That was just by faith people! Think about how much your everyday life affects others by just having faith in the God you love so much.
So, if you have faith in God and yourself you can affect other people's lives, but it can work the other way around too; If all your faith is directed towards your doubt, then you won't be just hindering yourself, you'll be tearing down other people in your life too. Notice, that love and faith played hand in hand together in encouraging those people! God is love, so when you're operating out of love you're letting his very presence flow through you to the world. And having faith that you can do anything through CHRIST who gives you strength, is one of the many pieces of evidence that his power is flowing through you.
Conclusion is THIS: Be a faith builder, not a doubt-believer.
~Wren