Don’t stop believing

Today’s post is a second guest blog from Jonathan Pearson, an anointed young man whose posts I ran across on Twitter and I asked his permission to use them here at Tablet Of My Heart.  He has deep insights from God’s word that I believe will bless you as they have me.

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Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. Hebrew 11:1

I’ve heard this verse all my life.
I’ve heard about how we are to live out our faith in our every day lives.
I’ve taught about how God is bigger than your biggest problem.
I’ve seen how God has brought people through tough times in the past.
I know God’s promise that He’ll never leave us for forsake us.
I believe that what God’s done in the past, He can do again.
I’ve witnessed a cancer patient receive the news that their cancer is gone.
I know that God loves His people. 

I’ve come to realize, however, that hearing and believing are easier when they’re not required.

When you have no clue how you’re going to pay the bills.
When you sit up nightly waiting on your wayward teen to come in.
When you get the news that someone you love has only months to live.
When you feel like you’re the only person you know without a child.
When you are tired of getting constantly ask when you’re going to get married.
When what you’re facing seems larger than life.

It’s tough to trust sometimes.
It can be tough to put all of your confidence in something you can’t see.
There’s nothing that anyone can say.
There’s no scripture that you can read.

Sometimes, you just have to hope.
Sometimes, you just have to wait.
Sometimes, you just have to let God prove again that He can do it.

No matter what you’re facing…
Don’t stop believing!
(No, “Hold on to the feeling,” comments please

What are you hanging on to God for today?

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Jonathan Pearson is a young leader with a heart for people that have never encountered Christ.  His passion is to lead people to live in their full potential, in Christ.  He graduated from Charleston Southern University in December 2009  and married the love of his life a week later. They moved to a small town outside of Orangeburg, S.C. to serve some amazing people. In his spare time, you will find Jonathan watching sports, talking about sports, or doing anything with sports. 

His blog is designed with the common person in mind, and his desire is that people learn from each other as they seek to become common people of uncommon faith. For specific questions, you can contact Jonathan via email at JonathanFPearson@gmail.com. You can also connect with him on Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo, and Flickr. You can read the above orginal post at http://www.jonathanpearson.net/2010/01/dont-stop-believing.html.

One at a time

Yesterday I finished the last class of my 2010 Spring Clean Your Business coaching class with Cindy Rushton, and learned, among many other wonderful things, that in order to get to where we as writers and speakers desire to be, we need to take one step at a time. Reaching for those goals by accomplishing our to-do lists. Pushing through every obstacle to the finish line.  When one task is done, going to the next priority A thing, not losing any momentum.  Doing and becoming what God has called us to do and to be for His glory.

Today my daughter Leah and I made home-made pancakes. Since this was not a boxed pancake recipe, we had to carefully measure each ingredient: the flour, sugar, milk, vanilla, egg yolks and egg whites (separated), salt, and baking powder. If we stirred the mixture too much, the baking powder wouldn’t react correctly. The pancakes with butter and raspberry syrup turned out delicious. To cook the pancakes though, we had to take one ingredient at a time.

In life sometimes things happen that we don’t understand, or we have prayed and nothing seems to be happening. Has God gone on vacation? Is He chatting with or texting someone else on His giant Iphone?  We as humans with our finite minds just don’t get everything that God is doing. Maybe we never will fully understand God and His ways, which are so much higher than our ways. But we must learn to trust Him and to obey Him.

We get through the dark valleys and climb the mountains of glory in life one simple way:  we take every moment, every day, every situation, one prayer at a time.

God hears your voice. Don’t stop praying.

“Everything in the world is about to be wrapped up, so take nothing for granted. Stay wide-awake in prayer. Most of all, love each other as if your life depended on it. Love makes up for practically anything. Be quick to give a meal to the hungry, a bed to the homeless—cheerfully. Be generous with the different things God gave you, passing them around so all get in on it: if words, let it be God’s words; if help, let it be God’s hearty help. That way, God’s bright presence will be evident in everything through Jesus, and he’ll get all the credit as the One mighty in everything—encores to the end of time. Oh, yes!” (1 Peter 4:7, The Message)

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Did you enjoy this post by Beth?  Learn more about prayer here.