In all things, and through all things, we have to go pass traditional practices and abandon the old mindset for the renewed mind that is in Christ Jesus. Sometimes we even have to step out on faith in favor of someone else because they don’t have the belief or spiritual understanding to take hold of the promise established in the sufficiency of God.
God will speak to you about what you need to do to make your life better, but you have to have the ability to listen and the willingness and obedience to do it in spite of what others may think, say, or do, and be confident enough in your belief to say: “I know this doesn’t make sense to you right now, but in time it will, and because I believe in God and trust his word more than my own judgment or yours I will be bold enough to step out into the abyss of the unknown in the spirit and power of the known God and take hold of his promise for both of us because of such faith are the successes in life numbered after their own kind and the seeds of hope bear the fruit of the promise for the birth of a new nation…a holy nation and it is not enough to hear the word if we are not faithful and objective enough to let it take root in our spirit and burst forth with blind ambition to proclaim God’s truth to man and glorify his name, especially in the face of adversity, uncertainty, doubt and unbelief.”