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Month: October 2026

At The Altar

October 24, 2026 / / 0 Comments

Miguel Hernandes

Have you ever felt like you were carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders?

Have you ever kept a secret that was slowly eating you alive?

Have you struggled with the same sin for so long that you began to wonder if you would ever overcome it?

Maybe you’re battling an addiction.

Maybe you’ve lost someone you love.

Maybe you’re struggling to forgive that one person who hurt you deeply. Or maybe you’re exhausted from fighting battles that nobody else knows about.

Whatever your battle may be, I want you to ask yourself one question:

How much longer will you carry something God never intended for you to carry alone?

Life can become overwhelming. Between responsibilities, relationships, temptations, and everyday struggles, we sometimes carry burdens that feel impossible to overcome. But what do we do?

We try to handle every situation on our own. We convince ourselves that we’re strong enough, that we can overcome our struggles through our own strength, and that eventually everything will fall into place. Thinking we have it under control. But what happens when our strength runs out? What happens when we find ourselves falling into the same sin over and over again?

What happens when we reach a point where we no longer know what to do?

That’s when we need to remember that God never called us to walk through this life alone. Before Jesus was crucified, He made a beautiful promise to His disciples. In John 14:16-17, Jesus tells them that He would ask the Father to send another Helper, the Spirit of truth, who would remain with them forever.

Think about that for a moment.

Jesus knew that His disciples would face persecution, temptation, fear, and many difficult battles. Yet He assured them that they would not be left alone. That Helper is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is not simply a feeling we experience during worship or an emotional moment at church. He is the Spirit of God, here to help, guide, and strengthen us in our weaknesses. Second Timothy 1:7 reminds us: “For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.”

Maybe you’ve been living in fear.

Maybe you’ve been allowing anxiety, temptation, or your past mistakes to control the way you live. But through the Holy Spirit, God equips His children with power, love, and self-control. The Holy Spirit gives us strength when we feel weak, wisdom when we don’t know which direction to take, and conviction when we begin walking down a path that leads us away from God. And as we continue growing in our relationship with Christ, the Holy Spirit transforms our character. Galatians 5:22-23 describes the fruit of the Spirit as: “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.” These are not simply qualities we develop by trying harder. They are the Spirit of God at work in us, transforming the fruit of our lives.

One of my favorite examples of the Holy Spirit’s power is found in the book of Acts.

 Before Jesus ascended into heaven, He gave His disciples an important promise. “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you” — Acts 1:8. Jesus promised them power through the Holy Spirit. In Acts chapter 2, we read about the Day of Pentecost. The disciples were gathered together when suddenly a sound came from heaven like a mighty rushing wind. Then they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and started speaking in tongues.

Imagine being in that room!

Imagine experiencing that rush of wind!

These were regular people who experienced the same things we experience today. Things like fear, uncertainty, and weakness. Peter, one of Jesus’ closest disciples, had previously denied knowing Jesus three times. Under pressure, he sinned. Yet, after receiving the Holy Spirit, we see Peter standing boldly before a crowd, proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Acts 2:41 tells us that about three thousand people received his message and were baptized that day. The same Peter who once denied Jesus out of fear was now boldly proclaiming His name! That’s what happens when we stop relying solely on our own strength and begin depending on the power of God. The Holy Spirit didn’t make Peter perfect, and Peter didn’t have everything figured out.

Still, the Holy Spirit empowered Peter to become a bold witness for Christ.

And that same Holy Spirit can work in your life, too. Maybe this is the first time you’ve heard about the Holy Spirit. Maybe you’ve attended church your entire life, but you’ve never understood what it means to surrender your life to Jesus. Or maybe you’ve spent years running from God because you believe your past is too broken for Him to accept you. If so, I want you to understand something:

God looks beyond your sin, your past, your age, or the mistakes you’ve made and sees your life made righteous in Him; clean, new. You don’t have to clean yourself up before coming to Jesus; the Holy Spirit does that work. We all have fallen short; all have made mistakes, and all have struggled. You come to Jesus because you recognize that you need Him, just as you are.

In Acts 2:38, Peter tells the people: “Each of you must repent of your sins and turn to God, and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. Then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”

Notice that Peter calls the people to repentance.

Repentance is more than simply feeling guilty about something we’ve done. It’s recognizing our sin, turning away from it, and turning toward God with a sincere heart. Romans 10:9 also teaches us: “If we confess Jesus as Lord and believe in our hearts that God raised Him from the dead, we will be saved.” Salvation is not something we can earn through the number of good deeds we do. Ephesians 2:8-9 reminds us: “We are saved by grace through faith. It is God’s gift, not the result of our works; lest any man boast.”

Isn’t that such an incredible gift!

The Creator of heaven and earth loves us so deeply that He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross for our sins. Because of the blood shed for you and me, we can receive forgiveness for our sins; we can receive the gift of salvation and a brand-new life with God Himself. If you haven’t surrendered your life to Christ, I highly encourage you to take that step right now. Turn to Jesus in faith and begin developing a fruitful relationship with him.

I want to bring you back to the questions I asked at the beginning.

What have you been carrying?

What sin have you been struggling to overcome?

Who have you been unable to forgive?

What is keeping you from fully surrendering your life to Christ? In Matthew 11:28, Jesus says: “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.”  

Notice what Jesus says. “Come to me.” He doesn’t say to come when you’ve figured everything out. He doesn’t say to come once you’ve overcome every addiction, repaired every relationship, or stopped struggling with sin. Jesus invites the weary and burdened to come to Him. Maybe you’ve been trying to fight your battles alone for years. Maybe you’ve been holding on to bitterness, pride, anger, or guilt. Maybe you know who Jesus is, but you’ve never had a relationship with him.

Today, I want to encourage you to bring those things before Him.

In Romans 12:1, Paul urges believers to: “Offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God.”

That is what surrender looks like.

Choosing to place our lives in God’s hands, even when we don’t have all the answers. It’s choosing obedience when our flesh desires something different. It’s waking up each morning and saying, “Lord, not my will, but Yours be done.” Surrendering your life to Christ doesn’t mean you’ll never face another battle. It means you no longer have to face those battles without Him.

There will still be difficult days.

There will still be temptations.

There may even be moments when you stumble.

But as we continue walking with Christ, the Holy Spirit works within us, correcting us, strengthening us, and shaping us to become more like Jesus. This helper that Jesus gives us stays with us forever. Philippians 1:6 reminds us: “He who began a good work in us will carry it on to completion until the day of Jesus Christ.”

God is not finished working in you.

My prayer is that today will not be another page taken from your past, but the beginning of a new chapter. Today can be the day you finally forgive that person. Today can be the day you confess the sin you’ve been hiding. Today can be the day you stop running from God and start running toward him.

Or maybe today is the day you make the greatest decision of your life: surrendering your heart to Jesus Christ.

Whatever your situation may be, remember this: You don’t have to leave the altar carrying the same burdens you brought before God: your fears, your struggles. Bring God your brokenness. And most importantly, bring Jesus your heart.

Because the greatest transformation begins when we stop trying to control everything and allow Jesus to become Lord over every part of our lives.

The question is no longer whether God is willing to receive you.

The question is: Are you willing to surrender?

Today, I encourage you to come to Jesus. Not because your life is perfect. Not because you have all the answers. But because He is worthy of your surrender.

Come to the altar.

Lay it all before Him. And let your journey of walking with Christ begin today.

Welcome, Miguel!

October 23, 2026 / / 0 Comments

MaryEllen Montville

“So they signaled their partners in the other boat to come and help them, and they came and filled both boats so full that they began to sink.” –Luke 5:7

By the grace of God, Jesus continues to fill our nets, and by His grace, He has called our partners to remain faithful as we fish for men. Thus, it is my great honor to introduce to you the Lord’s latest fisher of men, Miguel Hernandes. Miguel’s first teaching will go live on October 24th at 3 p.m. You can read Miguel’s bio by clicking on our “Meet The Team” tab. Please, SOS family,  help me welcome this dynamic, gifted, on-fire young man of God to our team.

SOS Family, I am awed by what Jesus is doing through this ministry!

God has favored us to take more and more territory for the Kingdom, and I believe He is just getting started! Having called yet another teacher to help us fish for men, God indeed has blessed and continues to bless Sonsofthesea ministry. This one net thrown out in obedience has grown, by God’s grace, into a global blog ministry that, as of today, reaches multiple nations, including, but not limited to: The United States, Russia, China, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and India.

In addition to Jesus’ faithfulness in taking a ministry born in 2016 in a small room in Hawaii global, Jesus has also been faithful to call committed men and women to join me in fishing for men; using our many nets, our prayer is that we have, and by God’s grace, will continue to catch many souls for His Kingdom and glory.

As Overseer of this ministry, I thank God for each fisherman Jesus calls to join me. And for the “other boat,” Jesus sent us, our ministry partner, Highland City Church, out of whom the Holy Spirit has called devoted, faithful fishers of men.

From all of us at Sonsofthesea, our heartfelt thanks to you for continuing to follow us as we follow Christ Jesus, our Lord. “I planted the seed in your hearts, and Apollos watered it, but it was God who made it grow. It’s not important who does the planting, or who does the watering. What’s important is that God makes the seed grow.” –1 Corinthians 3:6-7

When The Thorn Remains…

October 17, 2026 / / 0 Comments

Emmanuel Lewis

There is a kind of pain that is hard to put into words…

You believe God can heal you. You know His Word says He is faithful. And yet, every morning, you still wake up with a wound that has not closed. You keep praying the same prayer month after month, maybe even year after year, but you start to wonder if heaven has heard the words you have spoken so many times.

You have worshiped through tears. You have quoted Scripture while your circumstances seemed to argue with every promise you were holding on to. You have encouraged other people to trust God, even while quietly wondering how much longer you can keep trusting Him yourself.

Yet somewhere in the silence, this question rises in your heart: Lord, if You love me, why am I still hurting?

That question can feel uncomfortable in church. We often know how to celebrate the testimony after the miracle, but we do not always know how to sit with someone still waiting for one.

What do we say to the person still standing beside a hospital bed, still grieving a loss, still fighting a battle in their mind, or still trying to rebuild what someone else broke?

What do we say when the prayer is sincere, the faith is real, but the pain is still present?

Let’s start here: God has never asked us to pretend.

In John 11, Mary and Martha sent word to Jesus that their brother, Lazarus, was sick. They knew Jesus loved them. They knew He had the power to heal. Surely, they thought, He would come quickly. Yet John 11:6 tells us, “So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days.”

Jesus loved this family, and He still did not arrive when they expected Him.

By the time Jesus reached Bethany, Lazarus had been in the tomb for four days. Martha went out to meet Him, carrying grief and disappointment in the same breath. In John 11:21, she said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” Those words carry so much honesty…

Martha was not denying Jesus’ power.

She was wrestling with His timing.

She believed He could have stopped the tragedy, and she could not make sense of why He did not come sooner.

Have you ever prayed a version of that prayer?

Lord, if You had intervened, maybe my marriage would be better. If You had answered, maybe my child would not have suffered. If You had moved when I asked, perhaps I would not be carrying this pain today.

Sometimes the hardest part of faith is not believing that God can move. It is trusting Him when He has not moved in the way we hoped He would.

Still, notice what Jesus does when He encounters Mary’s grief and the grief of those mourning with her. John 11:35 gives us one of the shortest verses in Scripture: “Jesus wept.” Jesus knew He was about to call Lazarus out of the tomb, but He still wept with the people who were hurting. He did not stand over them and tell them to have more faith. He stepped into their sorrow.

Jesus did not require them to understand the resurrection before He acknowledged their tears. We sometimes treat grief like it means our faith has failed. But Ecclesiastes 3:4 reminds us there is “a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance.” Scripture makes room for tears because God understands the hearts He created.

You can trust God and still be devastated.

You can believe His promises and still need someone to sit beside you while you cry.

Your tears are not proof that you have abandoned your faith.

Sometimes, they are the most honest expression of a faith that is struggling to understand.

Jesus never promised that following Him would mean a life without suffering. In John 16:33, He told His disciples, “In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” Notice how honest that promise is. Jesus did not say trouble might come only if they failed to pray enough or believe hard enough. He said they would face trouble. But He also gave them something stronger than comfortable circumstances: the promise that trouble would not get the final word.

That distinction matters because we can become so focused on asking God to remove our pain that we begin to measure His goodness by whether He does or does not. The apostle Paul understood this tension. In 2 Corinthians 12:8–9, he explains that he pleaded with the Lord three times to take away his thorn in the flesh. He wanted relief. He asked repeatedly. Yet the answer he received was not the immediate deliverance he desired. Instead, God told him, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”

Paul’s struggle remained, yet God’s grace was not diminished.

That does not mean every painful season comes with an explanation we will eventually understand. And it does not mean prayer should replace medical care, counseling, or the support of wise and loving people. Some healing comes suddenly. Some healing happens slowly through recovery, care, and community. Some losses cannot be undone in this life. And some questions stay unanswered long after we stop asking them out loud.

Still, unanswered questions do not have to become the foundation of our understanding of God.

Romans 8:38–39 gives us this assurance: “For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Notice what Paul does not promise. He does not say believers will never experience heartbreak. He declares that nothing we experience can separate us from the love of God in Christ.

Your pain is real, but it does not mean you have been abandoned.

Your unanswered prayer may hurt deeply, but it does not determine your worth.

And your present circumstances, no matter how overwhelming they may feel, do not get to define your whole story.

The greatest evidence of God’s love is not that He has promised to give us everything we ask for. It is that He gave us His Son.

At the Cross, Jesus entered the deepest reality of human suffering. He was betrayed, rejected, beaten, and crucified. He bore our sins so that we could be reconciled to God. And on the third day, He rose again. The resurrection declares that sin and death do not have the final word. That is why Christian hope reaches beyond circumstances.

Revelation 21:4 points us toward the day when God “will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” This is the promise our faith is moving toward: a day when suffering will end, death will be defeated forever, and God will make all things new.

We may not understand every season we will walk through, but we can trust the One who has promised to redeem His people. Until that day, we wait. Sometimes we wait with confidence. Sometimes we wait with questions.

Sometimes all we can manage is a whispered prayer: Jesus, help me make it through today.

Maybe that is where you are right now. Maybe you have been carrying pain for so long that you have started to wonder whether God still wants you. Maybe you have gone to church for years but have never truly surrendered your life to Christ. Or maybe you have spent so much time trying to fix yourself that you believe you need to become a better version of yourself before you can come to Him. But Jesus does not ask you to heal yourself before you come to Him. He invites you to come to Him for salvation. He offers forgiveness for sin, reconciliation with God, and eternal life to those who put their faith in Him.

Romans 10 says, “If you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”

You do not have to understand every season before you surrender your life to Christ.

You do not have to resolve every question before you trust the One who went to the cross for you. And you do not have to walk through your suffering alone. Maybe today, your next step is to bring your whole life, not just your pain, before Jesus. Ask Him for help. Get the care you need. Let trusted people walk with you. Open His Word, even if you have to read it through tears. And remember: the Savior who wept at a tomb is the same Savior who conquered the grave.

I cannot promise that your circumstances will change on your timeline.

But I can point you to the One who offers a hope that suffering cannot destroy…

And if you have spent your life trying to heal wounds you were never meant to carry alone, let today be the day you come to Jesus. Not because you have everything figured out, but because the Savior who conquered the grave is still calling your name, and His arms are still open to welcome you home.

Home Renovations…

October 10, 2026 / / 0 Comments

MaryEllen Montville

“Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain.” –Psalm 127:1

I was awakened to this one Word in my Spirit: Renovations, plural.

Now, I love a good home renovation episode as much as the next guy: replacing outdated countertops and hardware, giving aesthetically unpleasing or ill-functioning cabinetry a fresh, latest look. Updating what is outdated and ineffective, watching it transform into something that changes the home’s function and atmosphere, and breathing new life into what no longer worked is fulfilling to watch unfold. And not only for the owner, but for everyone who gets to experience that transformation.

But the Holy Spirit didn’t show me an aesthetically pleasing renovation.

The houses He renovates often involve a far more labor-intensive, “deconstruct-to-reconstruct” process, spiritually speaking. The Lord Jesus often reconstructs, “a job at a time,” lest the homeowner grow faint under the meticulous work of the Master Builders.

Holy Spirit’s renovation work focuses on the building’s structure—what upholds, supports, and covers the home—not simply upgrading its cosmetic flaws. His deconstruct-to-reconstruct renovation process made sense to me, as I understand God is far more concerned with our character, our “support beams, roof, our pilings and the footings of our foundations” than He is with how aesthetically pleasing to the eye, if you will, our “house” is.

God’s heart, His desire from eternity past, is that His children walk uprightly in obedience and fellowship with Him, that He might bless those who do. “For the Lord God is a Sun and Shield; the Lord bestows [present] grace and favor and [future] glory (honor, splendor, and heavenly bliss)! No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.” –Psalm 84:11. What earthly parent doesn’t want their child to grow up strong, confident in their parents’ love, living a good life built on an unshakable, righteous character—how much more than does God desire this for His children—and those He is calling to become His own even now.

God desires our proverbial house to reflect the righteous character of His Master Builder, Jesus, character placed in it the moment He took possession of it: Love, joy, kindness, goodness, self-control, patience, peace, faithfulness, and gentleness. “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.” –Galatians 5:22-23.

God made it possible for our homes to be “constructed” with these incalculable materials through Jesus’ sacrificial life, death, and resurrection—summed up aptly in Jesus’ final words: tetelestai, “It is finished.” The deed to your house, paid in full. Man’s sinful debt satisfied by Jesus’ sinless death.

Each man’s proverbial house is his soul, and only God can reconstruct a soul, returning it to its intended condition. “He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.” –Psalm 23:3

Future homes will continue to be renovated: “deconstructed-to-be-reconstructed” until Jesus calls us all home. “For just as through one man’s disobedience [his failure to hear, his carelessness] the many were made sinners, so through the obedience of the one Man the many will be made righteous and acceptable to God and brought into right standing with Him.” –Romans 5:19

For our houses to be brought into right standing with God, some of His children will endure a far more intensive renovation process than others.

Because God loves them less?

Not possible!

No. It’s because of Jesus’ great love that some of His children will experience the more intensive renovation needed to keep their proverbial house standing, ready to pass inspection by its Omniscient, Omnipotent, Omnificent Owner.

New girders will need to replace unstable main beams, and new floor joists will need to be laid to help carry weight straight to its foundation. Why? God knows the weight this house will carry—and how it must be built to withstand the storms of life, year after year…

Other homes may need new shingles to replace leaky patches on their roofs, keeping the elements out and protecting the work He’s already completed within. If the roof is faulty or leaky, it will eventually damage what lies beneath it—the walls, beams, and wiring—things essential for a safe, solid, well-built home. Additionally, mold and mildew can grow quickly in such conditions, causing this house quite literally to make its owner sick.

Thus, God repairs what’s faulty to make this house safe not only for its owner, but for all who enter…

In other homes, God sees the need to dig out the foundation and pour a deeper, far more stable footing that will undergird what He is constructing for years to come; God will use this major delay in the home’s construction to teach its owner patience and endurance.

Other homes still need to learn to rely on the Master Builder’s plans and materials rather than employing outside builders or employing inferior “do-it-yourself” materials in their own handy work, so-called. God will allow fiery trials to burn away the faulty tools and materials of self-reliance and put a stop to such building practices entirely.

Others have been built to face the vicious storms of adversity head-on; God has fortified their structures with indefatigable materials to withstand the warring storms that will rage against them and protect those God has called to enter them. “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.” –Matthew 7:24–25

And then there is the home of the prodigal.

Faulty materials were used when its owner cut corners and squandered the precious resources the Master Builder provided during its construction. Instead, they rejected the Master Builder’s offer of supplies, relied on their scant building knowledge, or hired less trustworthy builders who used shoddy materials to build their house. “But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its collapse!” – Matthew 7:26-27

As a result, they may taste the Master Builder’s severe mercy. His rigorous gutting of whole sections of their house, rebuilding them afresh, and shoring up their foundation, enabling them finally to withstand the Master Builder’s future additions. The Patriarch Jacob could easily attest to this Truth…

Beloved, only God Himself, the Good, Loving, Master Builder of the house, knows why He’s chosen and appointed some houses and not others for such rigorous deconstruct-to-reconstruct renovations.

The following Scriptures, however, point us, in part, towards an answer. “Therefore, since we have been made right in God’s sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us. Because of our faith, Christ has brought us into this place of undeserved privilege where we now stand, and we confidently and joyfully look forward to sharing God’s glory. We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation. And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love.” –Romans 5:1-5

Be sure of this, dear homeowner: whatever the trial Jesus allows to touch your house is for your good, to strengthen, purify, fortify, or refine your house and its reliance on Him, and it will result in your good and God’s glory. “These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.” —1 Peter 1:7

Who has built your house, friend? Was it the Master Builder, or have you taken matters into your own hands and built it yourself? Before you answer, consider the weight of today’s verse. “Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain.” –Psalm 127:1

Friend, it is never too late to invite the Master Builder to renovate anything that needs updating in your house…

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Faith…

October 3, 2026 / / 0 Comments

Wesley Mendes

I’ve been thinking a lot about faith lately.

Jesus said in John 20:29, “Blessed are those who believe without seeing me.”

And that really speaks to me because faith is easy to talk about when you can see the outcome. But what happens when you can’t see it?

What happens when you don’t know how it’ll work out?

When you don’t have the answers?

When you’ve done everything you know how to do, and you still don’t know what comes next?

That’s where faith becomes real.

Because without faith, we naturally fall back on ourselves. We rely on our strength, our understanding, our experience, our plans, and what we know.

And when we do that, we can accidentally put the entire weight of life on ourselves.

“I have to figure this out.”

“I have to fix this.”

“I have to make this happen.”

“I need to know how this is going to work.”

But we were never designed to carry everything on our own.

We were designed to depend on God.

Look at how many times Jesus connected faith to what God was doing.

“Because of your faith, it will happen.” — Matthew 9:29

“Because you believed, it has happened.” — Matthew 8:13

“Your faith has made you well. Go in peace.” — Mark 5:34

“Your faith is great. Your request is granted.” — Matthew 15:28

“Your faith has healed you.” — Luke 17:19

And then Ephesians 2:8–9 reminds us that even our salvation is a gift from God through faith—not something we can take credit for.

Faith reminds me that I am not God.

I don’t have to know everything.

I don’t have to control everything.

I don’t have to carry everything.

I have to trust the One who does.

And that doesn’t mean faith makes life easy. It means when life gets heavy, I don’t have to carry the weight alone.

My strength can’t accomplish everything.

There are situations my knowledge can’t solve.

There are doors I can’t open.

There are battles I can’t win by myself.

But faith says, “God, I trust You even when I can’t see what You’re doing.”

Sometimes faith means believing for the miracle.

Sometimes faith is believing while you’re waiting for the miracle.

And sometimes faith is simply getting up the next morning and saying, “God, I still trust You.”

Because faith isn’t about having everything figured out.

Faith is choosing dependence over self-reliance.

It’s saying, “God, I don’t know how, but You do. I don’t know when, but You do. I don’t see the way, but You do. And because I know who You are, I can keep moving forward.”

So if you’re in a season right now where you don’t see the answer, don’t let the absence of sight convince you that God is absent.

You may not see Jesus, but you can still trust Him.

You may not understand the process, but you can trust the Person leading you through it.

And when your strength runs out, remember: Maybe you’re not being asked to find more strength within yourself. Maybe you’re being invited to depend more deeply on God.

Because we were never created to carry life without Him.

Faith carries us in places our own strength never could.

Welcome Jesus into your Life today, and please, if you haven’t, say this prayer with me. “Jesus, you are my Lord, and you are my Savior. I believe that you died on the cross just for me, and that you rose from the grave on the third day. I believe in my heart that you are God, and I invite you into my life and into my heart today. In Jesus’ mighty name, I pray, amen.

“Pray [Call] to me, and I will answer you. I will tell you—important secrets [great and hidden things] you have never ·heard [ known] before.” –Jeremiah 33:3

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