Believing that Good is Going to Happen (TMF:1123)

Wednesday, May 08, 2019
Peace to Live By: Believing that Good is Going to Happen (TMF:1123) - Daniel Litton
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       Part of being positive is believing that good things are going to happen in the future instead of bad things. Many folks get into the trap of believing only bad is going to happen for them in the future. They’ve had negative experiences in the past, perhaps even limited to certain area of life, and they just don’t think things are going to get better for them. And interestingly enough, when we don’t feel things are going to get better, they won’t because we are not exercising and using faith that things will in fact be more fulfilling for us. Faith is the driving force behind the power of God. We can make ourselves miserable by having a lack of faith, or we can believe the best is going to happen and make ourselves happy for the time being. Jesus on many occasions rebuked his disciples for a lack of faith. He was telling them that they should have believed they were in God’s hands—that God would take care of them—instead of believing that something terrible was going to happen. To state it plainly, God isn’t going to give us as much help in life when we aren’t thinking positively with hope by using faith. This is because we are being disobedient to him.