I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief! Mark 9:24 (NIV)

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Recently, I’ve been thinking my life verse should be Mark 9:24: “… I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!” (NIV)

I do believe, yet I have so much unbelief in my life. I walk in faith, yet my faith is often more in the things I see than the things I don’t see. I follow God, yet I repeatedly find myself stumbling down a path of my own choosing.

I believe; God, help me overcome my unbelief –

• I believe; help me live like I believe.
• I believe; help me choose like I believe.
• I believe, help me trust like I believe.

Help me to live like I deeply believe you are trustworthy. Help me to abandon my mythology, where I believe I am more trustworthy than you, where I live with more faith in my own efforts than in your ability to create the universe.

Oswald Chambers says, “Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led. But it does mean loving and knowing the One who is leading. It is literally a life of faith, not of understanding and reason – a life of knowing him who calls us to go.”

“I do believe, but help me not to doubt!” (Mark 9:24, NLT)

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