Overcoming Faith by Shauna Carrington
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By Shauna Carrington
Faith and fear cannot co-exist! All throughout the gospels we read where Jesus was continually asking His disciples "Why are you afraid, where is your faith?" I know I have heard this a time or two myself. I believe we are in a vital season where the enemy is after our faith, but why? Well, according to 1 John 5:4 (Amplified), "For whatever is born of God is victorious over the world; and this is the victory that conquers the world, even our faith."
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Faith and fear cannot co-exist! All throughout the gospels we read where Jesus was continually asking His disciples "Why are you afraid, where is your faith?" I know I have heard this a time or two myself. I believe we are in a vital season where the enemy is after our faith, but why? Well, according to 1 John 5:4 (Amplified), "For whatever is born of God is victorious over the world; and this is the victory that conquers the world, even our faith."
When God placed a measure of faith in you and I it wasn't just any kind of faith, it is 'OVERCOMING FAITH," a faith that overcomes fear, concerns and worry. You possess a faith that overcomes trails, distress and frustrations.
I love John 16:33, Jesus said, "I have told you these things so that in Me you may have (perfect) peace and confidence. In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; BUT be of good cheer (take courage; be confident, certain, undaunted)! For I have OVERCOME the world. I have deprived it of it's power to harm you and have conquered it for you."
Here is the thing, I have to make a daily decision of who and what I will believe. I have to, on purpose, stay grounded in His word, His promise and lay hold of it by faith while continuing to war off fear because I can't operate in both! You too have a choice to make, life or death, choose life, which is Christ. I promise He will never let you down or forsake you! His love for you is unconditional and it is His pleasure to give you the Kingdom of God and the desires of your heart. Rest in His unfailing love today and be of good cheer, for He has already overcome this and you have overcoming faith!
Shauna Carrington
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Psalm 118:23-24 captivates me! I love when I wake in the morning hearing His loving kindness ministering to my heart. I love that we serve a God that has given us the ability to choose, the question is, "What will we choose this day?" Psalm 118:23-24 in the Passion says, "The Lord himself is the one who has done this, and it's so AMAZING, so MARVELOUS to see! 24 This is the day of the Lord that brings GLADNESS and JOY, filling our hearts with glee." Don't you just love this passage of scripture...His promise to you and I!
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A few Saturdays ago I woke up fairly early and went on my walk at the park. As I began to walk I asked the Lord to lead me by His Spirit, that I would pray according to His heart, not mine and His plan, not mine. I committed to just pray in the spirit knowing that the Holy Spirit is the revealer of truth and He would sound in me the profound and bottomless things of God according to 1 Corinthians 2:9. As I was finishing up my last mile I heard these words rise up in my spirit, "You have entered into a new season. It's a season of reaping because of the weeping." I recall thinking, "Was that me??" and then I heard it again, "A season of reaping because of the weeping!"
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Did you know that you and I are called and commissioned by the word of God to be an "Agent of Unity?" Matthew 5:9 says "Blessed (enjoying enviable happiness with life-joy and satisfaction in God's favor regardless of their outward condition) are the makers and maintainers of peace, for they shall be called the sons/daughters of God!" Unity in the Greek means to be united in soul, of one mind, one accord; to be co-spirited joined close together in tight identification. Peacemaker definition: A person who helps others solve a conflict and reach a peaceful solution; a person who tries to create harmony or make peace.
