Faith Arise

My beloved one,

I ask you today, are you expectant?

Are you able to sit back in a posture of rest because you are expectant that I am who I say I am? Do you trust that when I speak a word it will come to pass? Do you believe that my faithfulness is great and my word is true?

Beloved, I am for you, not against you. I am with you in the midst of it all, not far away and unaware. Each morning, allow your faith to arise, leading you into a daily posture of expectancy. For it is in that place you will see yourself thrive!

Activation: For the next week, when you wake up, take a moment to call your faith forward. Place a hand on your stomach and declare out loud, “Faith arise!” Do this as many times as it takes until you feel an expectancy – a joyful anticipation of God’s goodness – rise within you. If at any point in the day you notice yourself feeling downcast, do this again until you feel yourself shift.

Lamentations 3:22-23 (ESV)

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;

    his mercies never come to an end;

they are new every morning;

    great is your faithfulness.

Romans 8:30-34 (NIV)

And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified. What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.