There are many times in life when things are coming at us. We get so caught up with the day to day that sometimes we feel like it’s too much, and we want to give up.

Our spirit gets broken, and our faith gets tested, and sometimes we stop believing.

I know there are so many messages that I receive from going to church. It’s amazing that what you really need to hear is that when you get there, there is your message that he is preaching right at you.

This week sermon was about when things get tough. Do you stop believing?

How deep is your faith?

I know that recently, I’ve been hit with a lot of stuff, yet I still have faith. I still believe that everything will work out for my good, even if at this moment it doesn’t seem like it.

Here are the 3 reasons we stop believing:

1-We stop trusting and get discouraged because of the mistakes we made.

We all have made mistakes, but we all have the ability to change and start over. Don’t think you can’t do it because you couldn’t do it in the past. Thomas Edison failed 990 times before he got the light bulb right. Yet he kept believing he could do it despite his many failures.

2-We allow our circumstances to control our lives. I might be in a mess, but I am not a mess.

We think because we are in this place, this is where we are going to stay. That the circumstances are bigger than us and it will never change, so we give up, we stop believing.

3- We don’t use faith in our now.

We forgot about our faith. We get so caught up in feeling sorry for ourselves that we forget to hold on to our faith. It’s like our problems are too big for our faith, and so we think we got this or that God will not come through.

I can tell you from experience that yes, life is tough. I started this a new business as I was getting divorced. It was tough getting a new business started. Hell, starting a new career at this stage of the game is hard enough, but getting a business going in this day and age is really rough.

Yes, I walked out on faith to do this but am I human. Was I scared some days? Beyond scared.

Have I woke up in sweats thinking about this business? I can’t tell you how many nights I tossed and turned and couldn’t sleep over this.

I was the sole provider for my girls, and I would not lie. After 24 years and starting over, that was scary. But during that time something happened, something in me just changed.

I said I couldn’t change what was going on so I could do one of two things.

1. I can make myself sick with worry, lose sleep, and have heart palpitations or 

2. I can straighten up, lift my head up, and say I know you have a plan for me, and you will take care of things.” I will keep praising you, I will keep believing, and I will pray and let you worry.

So I chose number 2. I prayed, and I gave thanks for where he has brought me from. I kept my faith that at this point of my life, he is in control, not me.

So today, my friends, they say if you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans and trust and believe me, it’s true. These weren’t my plans. I was so lost, I had nothing to dream about, all of “this” is his doing. 

I learned that I will not worry about what is going to come. I will just be grateful, give my praise, and just “believe.” These are the 3 things that I believed in.

“Be the change you want to see,”

@TreadmillTreats