Overcome my Unbelief

Overcome my Unbelief

Written by Meg

Today is my first message of the year and I would like to share with you the same encouragement I received from Pastor Mike of his last week preaching.

A week before the service, we had a five-day fasting that started last January 7. It talks about “Great Faith”. The Faith of Abraham and Sarah, Moses, Caleb, Rahab, Paul and Jairus. They were all indeed inspiring men and women of the Bible both in Old and New Testament. Proven that these people were absolutely existed and not a fictitious in character experiencing the grace and favor of God, himself.

Before the week ended with our praying and fasting, what caught my interest was the current story of Pastor Mike Manahan (by the way, I’m usually attending the 5pm service and that time since I was late, I decided to attend the 7pm service instead). Despite what happened on him and his family, his faith unto the Lord is still so strong and unwavering. He lost his precious two-month old daughter last year. Although he admitted that it’s difficult to preach about faith when he himself is still recovering from pain and lost, it gave him the courage to share. In fact, during those times, he keeps on praying… ”Lord, help me, give me the strength to overcome my unbelief.”

Moving on with this kind of difficulties in life is so tough and it requires the grace and mercy of God. How to serve God if I am in pain? How to worship God if I am at lost? What will other people say, I am a pastor yet was my faith not good enough? Questions like these only meant that we are human, have feelings (not robot) capable of receiving love, accepting pain. Humans that only need the grace and power to comprehend and understand what God is trying to say. We may not know what His plan at the moment but always remember God is always in control. Take a closer look at Job’s life, nothing compares the pain of losing 10 of your children, losing all of your wealth and even weakening your body with diseases from head to toe. Three major loses. My question is, what have you going through lately? Remember that there was one person who experience those three misfortunes in history at the same time. Be encouraged that despite of it all, Job’s faith is phenomenal! An exceptional faith that we can look back and be inspired to move forward with confidence and grace. Never give up. Look at the brighter side of life.

You are alive! You have a choice. You have you. Your life. The same God who made Job brings back to life is the same God who can bring back the same joy, happiness and love in your life. Believe in your time. Your time is about to come. Be excited! You may be in pain right now but believe that you are in progress. After the pain, there is healing and after healing there is recovery and after recovery, there is restoration. After restoration, you feel the pain no more.

For someone to enjoy the fullness of life, enjoy to experience the full season. The Spring which represents life, summer represents warm, fall represents meekness/quietness, and winter means ending, the culmination of the four seasons. For it to appreciate, it always requires time. Absolute time that is seasoned with love, understanding and grace. =)

Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction. (2 Timothy 4:2)