How to have more faith

I don’t know if I’m posting this in the right place or not but I just wanted to know how to strengthen my faith, I have faith but when things get hard I worry and get anxious. I know if I have faith in god I shouldn’t worry about anything. But I still have anxiety. So I just wanted to know the best way to strengthen my faith and trust god. I know I can get over this with god, but I have to have faith

Cast they cares upon the Lord. Sounds simple and easy? It is not, trust God to do all for we can do dnodt much at all except be weilling and grateful servants and children of the Mosst High God. I go throught the very same........it is not easy, but it is the only way. *for me anyways.)

Howdy chowderhead, and welcome to the forum.

Worry is caused by dwelling on things you can't change. When you keep trying to figure out how to change them anyway, but you know you can't, you get worry and anxiety. And eventually ulcers.

Two things help:
- 1: Learn to let things go when you can't change them.
- 2: Establish proper perspective about the things you're worrying about. Most things that stress us out are not really all that important, but we make them important.

if my job closed down tomorrow, oh well, I'd have to find another job. If I got in a car accident and lost a leg, oh well, I'll have to get a metal leg. Either way, life goes on.

It's not important to be able to do everything. I only need to be able to do what needs to be done. If I did lose that leg, I would not do anything that requires two natural legs, like running a marathon. But I would still be alive and functioning, and I would find something I could do to make a living.

This is the right place for you. I am also a newbui but when I read all those thread - I see how many people like me. They motivate me. They motivate me to believe. My faith is stronger than ever before now. You also may try ACIM cource or smth like that which may be helpful for christians who just started their path to Lord.

Do you have an example where you are not trusting God?

Hi.. we know faith comes by hearing..hearing by the word of God. Its true we don't exercise out faith enough. See first know Gods will is Gods word. We know what ever we desire when we pray believe we receive it we shall have it. What ever we ask the Father in Jesus name He will do it. OT.. delight our self in the lord and He will give us the desire of our heart. The point is.. when we ask .. ask inline with His word. So many times the reason it does not work we ask for personal things. Be like you go to work and you need a place to park. Praying for a space infront of everyone else.. lol yeah wont work. Your asking because you always have to park so far away and it would be nice to park closer. When you pray you KNOW not wonder you KNOW He heard you and you KNOW He will answer your prayer. So days weeks might pass and nothing.. you start small so if it does not happen your faith is not crushed.

So one day you go to work and your just about to park and you see and open space much closer. This really is not the best example but to many times believers wait till something God for bid bad to happen to then try to believe.

Not even a year ago I wanted to help my wife with her faith with something right then right now. As I started to pray I stopped.. I said "you know what I was going to ask for. You already set in motion the answer before I even finished praying". It was not even 10min.. only share part.. one of those rare moments.. I asked for something before we got home. Man I cried in car lol.. He answered it exactly as I asked. I am no writer speaker sorry.

See the word says if we know HE hears us then we know we have the petitions we asked for. It also says if we doubt let not that man think he will get anything from God. Even praying about something .. doubt.. just say sorry and keep believing. KNOWING it was already done. God can not will not go against mans will.

See it is trust.. to have faith.. faith comes by GOD WORD! Trust/faith you have to KNOW He is for you never against you. You can't let that thought come in "I guess He didn't want me to have it". We tend to ask for things and then we put GOD on some time clock and if it doesnt happen when WE want it to we doubt. So we ask we know He heard us.. we can't see it hear it feel it .. we KNOW He heard us we know He answered. Like work again.. need a way to work. NO you don't pray for a new car lol. That will not work. That is a personal thing. Not the car but a NEW Car. Then you never look back.. you KNOW Hes going to answer. Something happens.. some friend says hey I have this car its not best but.. you need something right? Or you read the paper and theres a car at the perfect price that you can afford.

Its not what I say or anyone else. You read you search you pray. Luke 11 13.. just ask knowing He will answer. Like John 3 16 did ya FEEL saved lol? No how do you know? Because HE said it and HE can not lie. Faith.. is the only thing that pleases God. We use faith every day. You know that lock will work ever time you go home. You know that car will start. On and on and on. Faith works both ways as in "every year I get sick around march". Faith.. you have fear.. God has not given you the spirit of fear but of power love and a sound mind. What ever it is pray His word. Sad or the like.. the joy of the lord is my strength. You start to praise Him when your NOT Happy.. that JOY will come.. You don't feel it hear it see it.. it will come because He said it. We put on the whole armor of GOD! No peace.. the peace of God which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Resist the devil and he has to leave.

KNOW God is for you.. GOD is happy with you.. but you did this or that you fell you had bad thoughts.. so get up dust off keep going aka repent for He is faithful and just to forgive you and cleans you from all unrighteousness. You do not go by how you FEEL! You don't put GOD on some time clock to answer. Just think about GOD IS FOR YOU! God is happy with you. He is right there with you. Read Phil .. the whole book. Tells you how to think.

Man this is awful but.. should help. Get in to HIs word.. you ask the holy Spirit to open your eyes.. to see to understand what He IS telling you. You will find some verse just POP OUT to you.. thats HIM.

One example is whenever something is bothering me instead of staying calm and trusting god to get me through it I start getting anxious and worry about it

I find that singing this song, even when I don't feel like it can make a difference, will make a difference. Just insist on it. I hope it helps.

The best way to have the faith you are wanting ......

First, you have to become this verse......Hebrews 13:9.

This verse explains to all the born again what happens if they do not become grounded, theologically, mentally, in God's Grace.
And it explains what happens if you dont. You will be blown around by this idea and that commentary and that forum member and that preacher, and that one and that one.
You will have no root.....no foundation, no power.. no real faith........As real faith is found in God's Grace, when understood correctly.
What does that mean?
It means that you have to learn to ONLY SEE YOURSELF as God has re-birthed you to be....

And let me ask you.......are you born again? Or are you a part of a "church" that has told you the lie that when you were water baptized, "there go all your sins".
So, if you are a part of a water cult, such as the CC or the Jehovah's Witness, then you are misled and you first have to resolve that....
That's the reality.

However, if you are born again, having believed in Jesus and you know that day you did, that you went to the Cross, believing... and you took Jesus into your heart giving God your faith, .........then God took your faith,.....and made you righteous with the Blood of Jesus and gave you the new birth. = born again.

If that has happened to you, then you can learn what real faith is all about, which is......to come to a place in your understanding that realizes that you are eternally spiritually joined to God's Spirit, and Jesus is in you, as your eternal Righteousness.
When you SEE yourself as this "Born again" "new Creation" in Christ, and never again as a "saved sinner" , then you have begun to understand God's Grace which is the Blood of Jesus, and having been Made Righteous.....as "the righteousness of God, in Christ".

So, developing faith, is to come to understand who you are BECOME, as a eternal Son of God, and never think of yourself as less, or anything else, ever again.
You have to get there in your MIND, as that is the place of REAL FAITH.

Know that God agrees with you and live and act as though whatever it is you prayed/ affirmed/ declared about is. You also have to be mindful about how you speak about whatever it is too, you must speak about it as though it is, you must treat it as though it is and you must later reflect upon it as though it is.

I practiced this on a bad neighbor for 5 weeks straight until they left, the prayer was that they were to move away. Every time i'd see
them id say to myself " wow it feels good that they're gone, it's so peaceful and quiet now", and i would carry on about my activities undisturbed as though they were actually gone even though i can clearly see them with my eyes. Later in the day i would then reflect upon what i had realized and acted upon. The next days i do the same thing over and over again as my mind begins to accept it as truth unlike the first few days which is always a struggle. Finally one day out of the blue i go outside and guess who i see putting boxes into a moving van. That day when they left it truly was quiet and peaceful and the entire block rejoiced.

That is just how i practice and grow mine, it ain't for everyone though because you have to step out of your comfort zone by saying and doing things that you're probably not feeling mentally or physically ready to do.

"First, I had to learn to surrender my old ways, and then, each day sought through
quiet time in prayer and meditation, to strive each day to apply and act upon God's
principles of life, the best I knew how. Willing to change being the most important,
and slowly I came to have more faith, that God's way being much better than the way
I was conducting my life...it works, so long as we work at it...EACH DAY...BELIEVE IT."
'Thank God'.....I came...I came to...I came to believe.

No, but I did have the period when I didn't have faith at all. I had bad company. I had no future in my mind. I just was like a plant. Nothing good for me. After that one of my friends offered me to read Bible and acim as well (ifyou know what is that). I changed myself since then. I will never lose the faith again...

An example of great faith that pleased Jesus in the Bible is the faith of the woman from Canaan. Humbling yourself before God by knowing how sinful and unworthy you are is good enough for Him.


And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.
Matthew 15:27‭-‬28 KJV

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