{"id":11944,"date":"2024-05-03T20:33:48","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T20:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/delightyourmarriage.com\/?p=11944"},"modified":"2024-05-03T20:41:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T20:41:19","slug":"429-faith-or-fear-when-will-it-matter-enough-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delightyourmarriage.com\/429-faith-or-fear-when-will-it-matter-enough-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"429 – Faith or Fear: When Will it Matter Enough to You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2484\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-11944-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/delightyourmarriage\/429-Faith_or_Fear_When_Will_it_Matter_Enough_to_You.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/delightyourmarriage\/429-Faith_or_Fear_When_Will_it_Matter_Enough_to_You.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/delightyourmarriage\/429-Faith_or_Fear_When_Will_it_Matter_Enough_to_You.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/delightyourmarriage\/429-Faith_or_Fear_When_Will_it_Matter_Enough_to_You.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/delightyourmarriage.com\/?powerpress_pinw=11944-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/delightyourmarriage\/429-Faith_or_Fear_When_Will_it_Matter_Enough_to_You.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" download=\"429-Faith_or_Fear_When_Will_it_Matter_Enough_to_You.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Download<\/a><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have you ever not done something because of fear?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have you ever done something that felt right at the time, but you were riddled with fear and anxiety later?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have you ever felt you had more potential than you were living into?<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Welcome to human nature.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But is that what he should do?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is that living according to our fears or God’s will and His way?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I don’t think so.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead, the Bible says it’s impossible to please God without faith. (Heb 11:6)<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You might wonder:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is it required to have faith for your marriage to change?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">YES.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even Jesus could do no mighty miracles in his hometown because of their lack of faith. (Mark 6:6)<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Does it mean He will most certainly change your marriage and make you not go through suffering because you have faith? Well, we can look at John the Baptist to see that even if you have faith it’s not a guarantee that God will pull you out of the hard situation and cause a miracle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the woman with the issue of blood had suffered terribly for over a decade.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She could have allowed her heart to grow calloused toward God and assume He doesn’t care.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She could have decided things will never change.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She could have resigned herself to a life that would never get better.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But she didn’t, she stretched, she pushed through the crowd, she resisted anything that would try to discourage her faith…<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and by faith, she touched the hem of His garment, believing He could heal her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And He did.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Jesus turned and saw her. \u201cTake heart, daughter,\u201d he said, \u201cyour faith has healed you.\u201d (Mtt 9:22)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I want to ask you, when…\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When will it matter enough?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When will choosing to notice that God is here wanting to restore, redeem, heal matter enough to you?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When will you see Jesus walking by and reach out in faith?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Resist the enemy’s…<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fear of being judged.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fear of loss.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fear of looking silly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fear of being perceived a fool.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fear of change.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fear of responsibility.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fear of taking ownership.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fear of pain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I invite you to stand up and choose faith.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stand up in faith. Reach for His garment. Do not be offended by His response but stay, stay, stay in faith as He might want to do a miracle that you (by your fear) are blocking.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Choose the faith of freedom, hope, joy, love, connection, unity, healing…\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Live into the potential life He may be inviting you into.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Listen in today:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Faith or Fear: When Will it Matter Enough to You?<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Love,<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Belah<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PS – Marital Health Assessment is a free tool to discover where you are currently in your marriage and to give you a vision of what areas you may be missing and need to gain insight. It also provides free episodes that are uniquely selected for your situation. <\/span><em><a href=\"http:\/\/delightyourmarriage.com\/health\">delightyourmarriage.com\/health<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PPS – If you’re ready to transform your marriage through Christ-centered personal growth… we’re here for you: <\/span><em><a href=\"http:\/\/delightyourmarriage.com\/cc\">delightyourmarriage.com\/cc<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We’d love to help.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quote from a recent graduate heading for divorce:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDelight Your Marriage saved my marriage. It has changed the course of all four of my kids lives. There is now peace in our home and friendship between me and my husband. Without this program I do not think we would have gotten here. I was too stubborn and too hurt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Belah\u2019s teaching were humbling and eye opening to the ways I had repeatedly damaged my husband and the areas I had fallen short as a wife. Both of us have now gone through the program now and I know it was the push we needed to mature and build solid ground for the rest of our marriage.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever not done something because of fear? Have you ever done something that felt right at the time, but you were riddled with fear and anxiety later?\u00a0\u00a0 Have you ever felt you had more potential than you were living into? Welcome to human nature.\u00a0 But is that what he should do?\u00a0 Is that living according<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":11953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[578,296,827,261,824,825,826,828,830,829,838,842,835,836,837,184,97,681,834,196,841,840,816,833,831,832,839],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-11944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anxiety","tag-christian-marriage","tag-doubt","tag-faith","tag-faith-help","tag-feeling-afraid","tag-feeling-anxiety","tag-how-to-deal-with-anxiety","tag-how-to-deal-with-doubt","tag-how-to-deal-with-fear","tag-how-to-increase-faith","tag-how-to-live-peacefully","tag-how-to-stop-doubt","tag-how-to-stop-fear","tag-increase-faith","tag-love","tag-marriage","tag-marriage-help","tag-miracles","tag-peace","tag-peaceful-home","tag-peaceful-life","tag-peaceful-living","tag-relationship-with-christ","tag-relationship-with-god","tag-relationship-with-jesus","tag-truth"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delightyourmarriage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delightyourmarriage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delightyourmarriage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delightyourmarriage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delightyourmarriage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11944"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/delightyourmarriage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11956,"href":"https:\/\/delightyourmarriage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11944\/revisions\/11956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delightyourmarriage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delightyourmarriage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delightyourmarriage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delightyourmarriage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11944"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delightyourmarriage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=11944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}