In the past week or two I have been going back and re-reading parts of scripture that have really spoken to me in the past. James is a book that always conveys something to me. And in this past week James 1:6 really stood out to me. The first part of James 1:6 says this, "But when when you ask him, be sure that your faith is in God alone..." This verse stuck out so much to be because of something that one of my roommates told me a few weeks prior.A few weeks ago I was on the Navigators fall conference in Estes Park. I was really discouraged over a lot of different things, and my roommate, Casey, sat down with me and told me about "praying with faith". She told me that if I pray with the mindset that God is listening, and can and will do anything, then I am more likely to believe in my own prayers. Ever since then I have not just been walking through the steps in my prayer life, but I am really trying to put my faith into God when I pray. Since the retreat I can see a huge difference in the way I pray, and my attitude when I pray. And then when I open up my bible I just see little reminders from God, like James 1:6.
Even if I can't convey into words Casey's theory on "praying with faith", I know it's helped me spiritually so much over the past couple of weeks. And I hope that God will show me how to pass it on someday to another person who needs to hear it.
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3 comments:
i love these posts from you. i can see you growing in your faith. and i'm glad you have roommates that help you in your spiritual journey.
keep praying in faith. God is faithful. and thank you for sharing this and participating in more of Him.
Part of it is "positive mental attitude." It's psychological. Our subconscience believes what we tell it. So if you tell yourself "I'm beautiful" even when you don't believe it, you will eventually believe it. Same with prayer. If you tell yourself that God will answer, you will begin to believe that He will. It's a way to connect the intellectual knowledege of God with the spiritual, life-giving relationship with our Creator.
Keep praying! Have a blessed day!!
I think I need an addendum to my comment...
That is the psychological way that faith works. Faith is believing even when we don't understand how something works. Sometimes we just need our mind to catch up with our hearts. Of course, faith is the most important part of believing in God and Christ as our Savior.
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