Faith and trust in God
Through Bible reading
God's word is the Bible. He speaks to us through his word. There are many examples of how God has worked and accompanied people, especially when they trusted in him.
Moses, when he led the people of Israel out of Egypt.
Joshua, when he conquered Jericho.
Zacchaeus and Elizabeth, who had a child despite their old age.
Paul, who was freed from prison.
God speaks to us through his word, he has given it to us so that we may know who and what he is like. So that we realize that and how much he loves us. Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Through prayer
God wants to talk to us, just as if you talk to your best friend, to whom you can tell and tell everything, who may also advise you something, even if it is something that does not suit you so well. He wants to listen to you and help you to understand situations, to process them, to come to terms with them. He listens to everyone, but wants to be heard just as much, because his word is healing and liberating. He knows exactly what he is saying to you, that it is good for you, it helps you, no matter what you think of it at that moment. God listens to you, even if you do not get along with his actions and address him about it. God wants you to be open and honest with him, because he knows your heart and what moves you.
Through conversations with other Christians
Let each one bear the other's burden. That is what God wants. He does not want us to go through life alone. No, he puts people at our side who accompany us, help us to grow in faith. People who know his word and can help us to understand some things. People who have been through the same and can understand us and help us to better understand the situation. God does not want us to be alone, but to have companionship and also to accompany others, because this is also a way to grow in faith and trust in God. It is important to God that we support each other to master situations in trust and faith in God. And that we grow in love for other people by understanding them and accompanying them or they accompany us.
Through sermons
It is important to check if it is in accordance with God's Word. Sermons help to understand God's word, to grow in faith. They help to put God's word into practice in daily life and to take it with us into everyday life. God also speaks to us through the sermon and it is important to Him that we trust in Him and have knowledge through it. It is important to God that we learn to understand his word, to grow in trust, to give him more and more room in our lives. It helps us when the other person tells us about his life with God, we can try to act similarly or find a way to deal with certain situations.
Through worship
It is important to give glory to God and have a time of praise. It also makes us grow and it gives me rest and peace in God. Having a time of worship is something special, something beautiful, because I give God the glory that is due to Him. When we praise God even in difficult situations, we feel better because we focus on Jesus and God. Just like Paul and Silas when they were in prison, they praised God in spite of everything that was in prison when they were chained there in the dirt and filth. They gave God the glory and God intervened. << Acts 16:25 Now at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and praising God. And they heard the prisoners. 26 But suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison shook. And immediately all the doors were opened, and from all of them the shackles fell off.>> God changes our lives when we praise and glorify Him because we give Him the glory. He intervenes, sometimes small, sometimes big, but it always changes us in that situation.
Through thanksgiving
We change our view when we start thanking God. It changes our feelings when we start thanking God. It is important that we first begin to give thanks for what we are also grateful for. It is equally important for us to thank Him for the things that cause us problems and worries, because this also gives us a different view of these situations. Through this we succeed in giving this to God and not only to react with anger or hate, but also to look where can I also be grateful in this situation, where can I see the other person in this situation through God's love. Thank God that we learn to deal with things differently and to see God's help even where we are helpless. Because just where I am weak God is strong and we give him the space to act, because we can not. To pay attention to the fact that he is there and accompanies us and helps us. Through this we recognize where God has intervened and that the day also had good for us with God.
Through Christian books
It is also important to check whether it is in accordance with God's Word. People who have had experiences with God like to pass this on and write it down so that others can also learn from it. Miracles and experiences that they have had with God or also insights that they have made. They like to pass it on so that we learn and understand some things better. Maybe not make the same mistake as they did or learn to deal with things. There are Christian books on different topics. God speaks to us there as well. He also wants to help and reach us through them.
Through trust in God
How do I encounter God in everyday life? Do I put my trust in Him that He will change my life, that He will change something through me?
The more I trust God and believe that He is there in my life, the more He can change. In the Bible, Jesus shows us that he healed the people who believed in him. Because Jesus said to them: your faith has healed you. He approached the people in whom he saw that they believed in him and healed them. That is why it is important to have this faith in God.
I trusted God to give me a child. Unfortunately, I couldn't have children, but God told me you will have a child and I trusted for 20 years and then I had my daughter.
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