Tune My Heart, Week 5
- Stacy Bishop
- Aug 21, 2024
- 2 min read
Happy Sunday, friend. As you prepare for worship this morning, let’s take a moment of quiet to invite God’s presence into your awareness today.
I don’t think any of us are coming into a Sunday morning without anything on our minds. We live in a world full of so many distractions. So much noise. There’s always something vying to pull our attention away from God. Maybe you’re struggling with doubt. It’s easy to overlook the fruit of your situation and focus on the bad. To let it make you wonder why you’re doing what you’re doing.
I have a friend from college named Erin who is one of the sweetest, most encouraging people you’ll ever meet. She posted something on social media recently that I want to share with you today:
She said: “Struggling Christian friend. Don’t have faith in your faith. Have faith in Christ. It is HE that holds you and is so much bigger and better than any of your questions or robustness of belief. He is faithful, and our feelings are not. Preach the Gospel to yourself every day, because our hearts forget it every day.”
Don’t have faith in your faith. That really struck me. I think we all tend to rely on ourselves in our walk with God, forgetting that He is the One who saves, the One who gives us the strength to resist the enemy, the One who is living in us. But I’d never thought of it like that—don’t have faith in your faith. Our faith is in Jesus Christ, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.
So as we go into Sunday, I want to read this scripture over you. Let it help you focus your heart and mind on Him today.
8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. 9 Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.
-Philippians 4:8-9
Let's pray.
God, You are where our faith lies. You are our hope and our peace. Help us to remember You. To see You. To feel Your presence with us today as we prepare for our roles at church. Would You open our eyes to see those true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent and praiseworthy things? To push aside the negative, the distractions and the things that are not from You? Help us to remember that You are so much bigger than our feelings and our feeble attempts at faith. You’ve already given us salvation through Jesus. What more could we need? Father, Son and Holy Spirit, help us to walk as though Your power is living within us today, because we know that it is. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.
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