Betsy Guerra defines faith biblically as "the assurance of the things that you hope for and the conviction of what you cannot see." She uses breathing and GPS as metaphors for trusting God step-by-step, arguing that faith means believing God will guide, provide, and bring the right people into your life.
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Today we're going to talk about living a faith filled life. To live a faith filled life, you must first understand what faith is. And faith according to the Bible is the assurance of the things that you hope for and that conviction of what you cannot see. In other words, faith is belief. Believing and trusting that what you're guided towards will happen even if you don't see any signs of it happening anytime soon. And living a faith filled life means that we believe. We trust that God's plans for us are always better than our own. We trust that he'll provide. We trust that he'll show us the way. We trust that God will put the people in our lives and the opportunities that will lead us to where we're meant to be. I always think of living a faith filled life as breathing. When you breathe, when you inhale, you're not thinking where the oxygen is going to come from. If there's enough trees in the environment releasing that oxygen that you're going to take in in your next inhale, you just inhale, you just breathe. And the same is true when you live a faith filled life. You just breathe. You just inhale every present moment at a time, knowing that on your next breath there's still gonna be enough oxygen for you to inhale even if you cannot see it and even if there are no trees around you. When you live a faith filled life, you live a guided life. And what that means is that you use God as your gps. He is the one telling you where to turn left, what opportunities to welcome, what to say. God is constantly like guiding you and telling you what's next in your life every present moment at a time. If there's something true about God guiding you, is that it's not like back in the day MapQuest where you could print out the entire map with all the directions and you knew exactly which way you were going instead. It's very much like the gps. Like right when you're supposed to turn, turn left, make a U turn, recalculating. That wasn't the way you were supposed to go. God is constantly guiding us step by step. And that's where faith comes in. In order for you to be sure that you're gonna know when to turn and where to turn when the time comes, you just need to have faith. You need to trust that he'll guide you. You need to believe that there will be enough oxygen for you to breathe. So faith is living. Your faith in your life is about trusting that God will never be late and he will always show you the way step by step. Which means that you may not know where you're going, you may have no idea of how you're going to overcome this or how you're going to get to where you want to get to, because it doesn't make sense right now with what you know about your life. But God's plans are better and higher than yourselves. You get to trust and you just get to keep walking and keep obeying and keep listening to your gps because you're headed the right way when you're living a faith filled life, which oftentimes manifests in the form of peace. If you're excited to walk by faith and live a guided life, check out Better with Betsy and subscribe to my channel to make sure you receive more inspiration on how to do this.
