Scripture Reading:

James 1:6 • Mark 11:23 • Psalms 86:2 • Romans 8:38-39 • James 3:17

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You can answer the following:

1. What are the Scriptures telling you about doubt?

2. How does God want you to deal with that?

3. What’s your prayer to God concerning doubt?

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Dealing with Doubt | Lemuel Ayudtud

James 1:6 instructs as that if we ask, we must believe and not doubt because when doubt we’re like a wave in the sea that goes up and down, ebbs and flows by the wind.

To me it seems that when we doubt there is no firmness is our faith; that when we doubt we are moved by the externals—that the wind can make us go up and the wind can make us go down.

In Mark 11:23 Jesus says that we can tell a mountain to move and it will move. That if we don’t entertain doubt in our heart and believe that it can happen, it will happen.

In light of what James says about doubt, then the reason that we see impossibilities is because we are affected by what we see rather than what we know.

What do we know?

Romans 8:38-39 let’s us know that nothing can get between us and what God has for us. Paul says he’s “convinced,” that he is sold to that fact. So then doubt is not being totally sold to what we know about God and His faithfulness.

In this first day of the 21 Days, may we pray that the Lord will help our heart and mind to be be convinced to Who He is and who we are in Him and His power and authority in the world. Let’s pray that instead of being like waves of the sea, we would be like mountains against the winds. That we would be firm no matter what may blow around us.

Lord, our hope is in You. Help us to walk in Your grace to trust you despite of what’s happening around us. Helps us, Lord, to be completely sold out to the fact that nothing can separate us from you and that if we would believe, nothing shall be impossible for us. In Your Name, Lord Jesus we pray, amen.