How would today be different if I really BELIEVED God?
Sometimes my emotional ups and downs make we wonder if I really believe God’s promises.
In my heart, I know I believe in Him, but do I really believe Him?
If I actively BELIEVE God, then I’ll trust He’s working everything out for good today – even though big expenses have drained our savings account and our son needed emergency oral surgery last week.
If I intentionally BELIEVE God, I won’t be anxious today when little inconveniences get in my way. Instead I’ll turn to Him for peace and I’ll thank Him in advance for helping me accomplish what has to be done.
If I truly BELIEVE God, then I’ll go to bed on time tonight, because He doesn’t want me to stay up late working endlessly trying to get it all done. Jesus says He wants to give me the gift of rest.
How could your day be different, if you really BELIEVED God?
- How would your outlook be different?
- How would your relationships be impacted?
I don’t know about you, but I don’t often realize Im not believing God. I need something to help me recognize and redirect my thoughts.
For instance, I’ve said “My life is too hard” to myself, my husband and my God quite often the past few weeks. We’ve just had one thing after the other going on around our house :). And if I believe that my life IS too hard…
- I get overwhelmed and want to quit. That’s my point of belief. Will I give in or will I grab a verse from God’s Word to believe and help me remember God promises to be with me; to give me strength and time to accomplish His purposes that day.
- I get courage to keep going when I focus on His truth over my feelings and choose to really believe Him. And somehow my active believing opens His acts of providing {or my eyes of seeing} and I end up with all I need to get through my days, my dilemmas and my doubts.
As I wrote my A Confident Heart Devotional book, I kept thinking about this and I realized: I need a new thought map.
I included a “When I say…God says…” statement {like the one above} at the end of every devotion to help me {and hopefully you} replace OUR thoughts with GOD’s thoughts!
That way, we find ourselves lost, stuck or struggling we can turn to God’s truth and remember to BELIEVE.
How could YOUR day or week be different it you really believed God today?
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I really have to rely on Him this week as hubby is on a missions trip. I have to put it all on Him and do my best to remember to give it to Him. If I don’t I know the week will go a very different way.
If I truly believed in God I would be anxious for nothing but in every situation by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving present my requests to God. I would lean not to my own understanding but in all my ways acknowledge him and let him direct my path..
I wrote a poem that said: How did I get here, how could this be, what happened to the woman God purposed me to be, I feel weary, broken hearted, rejected and hurt, I’ve lost my joy misplaced my faith and in my life I can find no worth. I struggle and struggle day after day and with every trial it gets harder to pray.
I ask my self what happened to you and my answer is where do I start, one family crisis after the other, serious health issues have consumed my mind ad invaded my heart.
My laughter is misplaced by tears, my smile is now a frown, when I reach out for help, there is no one around, yet I give and I give unselfishly yet when I’m in need no one gives to me,
Then one day when I was at the lowest of the low, I asked myself where did your faith go?
God didn’t give me the spirit of fear so why am I afraid, God didn’t create a failure , in him I’m wonderfully made.. God said he would never leave nor forsake me so why have I turned away from him, God said look to the hills from whence comes your help comes from the Lord. So if I now all this why am I am I making it do hard. so I decided If I truly believe in God,I would let him lead the way because he is the Only one that has been there each and every day. If I truly believe in God I will relax, relate and release and LET HIM RESTORE MY JOY AND GIVE ME PERFECT PEACE.
I so needed to read this today. If only I remembered to turn to God instead of trying to rely on myself. I am reading your book A Confident Heart and am struggling with letting go of the past and moving forward. I feel like I could have written a lot of your story. It’s a wonderful book!
I believe that if I really believed God that I wouldn’t continue to be so hard on myself, punishing myself for mistakes from my past and allowing myself to be gripped by fear, not allowing anyone even God to get close to me. Instead of carrying pain and bitterness, not forgiving myself in my heart there would be Joy, peace, love, compassion, kindness, tenderness and gentleness that only God provides. My life would be totally different and whatever problems I faced even for a week, I would be able to say God, let’s do it together because I can’t do it alone.
Thank you Renee, for sharing from your heart and letting God lead you to empower and help other women and girls.
I feel like this everyday. If I coukd just really let of and truly believe God things would be much better. My husband and I are divorced but trying to work things out and I know I need to believe gang no matter what happens God knows what’s next.
Wow, it’s very difficult to move past my frustrations sometimes. I’m raising 2 foster children & have them for a year. A 14 year old girl & 10 year old boy, siblings. So many upsets & so difficult to provide and continue with little respect if any at all. However, I need to look past those frustrations & have faith that God has placed these kids with my family for His reason. And God has a plan! I have to trust in Him & Him alone!
His book looks like a dream come true. It is so hard to fight the doubts. Live with god thoughts not our own selfish flesh thoughts
I find myself doubting a lot lately. I believe in God, yes, but I am having a hard time believing that “everything works for good to those who love Him”. My husband lost his job in very difficult circumstances that we don’t understand and wonder how this injustice could happen. People tell me to trust God and that He has better plans for us… In the meantime, I am asking, where is the money to pay bills (Mortgage, utilities, food!) will come from.
This is something I need right now in my life. I also need to get your book that goes along with the devotionals. I am going through a crisis in my life right now and I tend to forget that God is with my and I can turn to him.
Thank you for this bible study! I am a single mom and I struggle with so many things … especially trust and confidence. The way you have been sharing the Word has been such a help to me to get my life back to where it should be … trusting and listening to God and His plan for my life.
It’s been a particularly trying week and I’m afraid I didn’t handle things as gracefully as I could have. It’s left me engulfed in doubt and feeling very depressed. Thinking about believing God puts things so much into perspective for me. I really needed this reminder. If I actively had believed God this week, I would have felt peace amidst the chaos and would have been confident that I do have a special place and purpose in his kingdom. Wow…amazing how much more freedom I feel now from those negative thoughts. Thank you! Your timing was impeccable
If I believed God….I would have more peace about the trials and troubles that my family is going through.
If I really BELIEVED God’s Word, I hope that I might have more patience with my hubby and son. Why is it so difficult to get everyone out the door in the morning on time and with everything that everyone needs???
Have been blessed by your writing, and by the writing of the entire Proverbs 31 team. I did the Confident Heart study last Spring, and would dearly love to have the devotional.
I have been realizing the need to replace my thoughts with God’s thoughts. I can say I trust God and believe God, BUT I have realized that my initial reaction when something negative comes up is to panic, and I have thought ‘Am I really believing God?’ That’s why we need to be in the word always, filling ourselves up with His promises and His assurances, until they take the place of our own negative, fearful thoughts and worries. So this is actually what I’ve been working on right at this point in my life! Glad to find some reassurance that I’m on the right path….
After a 2 year battle with cancer we were told that mom is now at the 6 month or less point. In my immediate birth family I am the only one who has an active relationship with God and most do not believe at all, so you can imagine it is hard to offer encouragement. In my prayer time God has told me that not only walking my mother home is a gift but all the other family dynamics are as well. So If I really believed God then I would have to admit that he is at work even in the chaos, and that when I feel like nothing is getting done…..maybe he is doing everything,
Im so sorry Christine. My heart aches for you and your family. Praying you will know and experience in a very real way the promise and power of His presence King David describes in Psalm 23. {{{hugs and prayers}}}
This is SO practical! FINALLY…someone that addresses rest! THANK YOU!!! Shew…after years of stressing myself out, working hard trying to earn His love because of my hurt and pain…I now get what it really means to rest in Him! That is REALLY trusting Him! I can’t tell you how deeply that echoes in me! I have never made it through the night…period. When you meet the Abba for Who He really is (not blinded by our hurts and failures) it allows you to truly find rest for your soul (I heard that before, but SO get it now!). THANK YOU!!!!
I am really thinking about (ok…saving up) for the devotional! Thank you for sharing SO much in your book and through this study! You have given me courage to simply start sharing my story through writing…you just never know who is reading on the other end.
Wish I could give you a hug Bethany. I recognize and resonate with the passion in your words. Praying these truths sink deep into our souls and into our thoughts so we can really believe and rest in HIM!!
How we get our picture to pop up when we leave a post??? Can you help me figure that out 🙂
Renee, I loved this post today! Recently I have been sharing that exact thought with others by telling of my personal experience of this transformation from believing in God to also believing God! My very first OBS was your “A Confident Heart” study last spring and although I had been growing in my faith and developing a deeper, more intimate relationship with Jesus, this study opened my heart and soul to the promises in His Word and was an important step in my journey! I will remember your book and study forever! Hoping to read the devotional! God bless!
I struggle with believing God. I always feel as if I am not good enough for what he says to be true. If I believed what God says, maybe life would be more peaceful and less painful.
Reading God’s word & using it In my daily life isn’t something I have been very good at. Reading A Confident Heart has really pushed me to make a greater effort to do this. Being part of the OBS has helped me to learn I do have doubt in my life and I need the power of the Holy Spirit and God’s word to allow me to overcome it.