FAITH IT TILL YOU MAKE IT!

 FAITH IT TILL YOU MAKE IT

I have heard of this quote; “Fake it, till you make it…” and I can’t blame the author because maybe there is what inspired them. I tend to believe that every quote comes from experiences one has gone through and when they overcome or succeed then a quote is born out of that as an inspiration.

There is a season I was waiting on the Lord to open a door of pursuing my dream course Journalism/Mass communication and at the same time I was trusting God to provide a job as well. Most of us can confess of the many job applications they have sent on email or even drop a resume or even go for countless interviews and still have hope that in their waiting season God will come through, others give up and go with what comes along. In my waiting season I was contacted for a job interview, and as usual I got there before time. The job interview went well, however I was to wait for feedback. As I walked to the bus stop I told God I want to go back to school and pursue my dream school, “Lord I don’t know how I will make it through, since I am not on any kind of sustainable income, but Lord I will trust your will and go to my college of choice which offers that course, get full details as I activate my faith for provision.”

I sat at the college reception waiting in line to be called, fortunately I had most of the necessary documents needed for the application. By faith I told the secretary at the reception who was attending me that I will have some installment fee by start of next month. True to it I managed to raise some amount before the next intake which I was to start, by faith I began my classes and I registered for evening classes since I was still trusting God for a job and as well an income to cater for my needs.

I still managed to attend interviews since during the day I was flexible. I decided to join church mission work under the women ministry (where I volunteered in most activities), this specific mission was scheduled for every Monday. So I managed to attend two sessions in a girl’s rehabilitation center. During this mission work on my second day after taking the girls through a bible study session and getting ready to go back home with the other ladies who were in the mission, I got a call that I was considered for a position I had applied for in one of the many interviews and I should go collect my contract which included the starting dates. To date I still believe that God rewarded me for giving myself fully into His work for this specific mission and answered my prayers about a job.

Faith without action is dead: All this time I was in the waiting season, not that I just sat down to wait on God, I also activated my faith through my actions by at least keeping myself occupied with community or church activities as God enabled me. During this time I learnt that I had to Faith it till I made it or rather walk in obedience, trust, humility and hope in God so that I could get to my Canaan. Did I mention before I got the job there are people God used to be in my path, others I felt I was even a bother rather I felt I was too much (but those were just my assumptions, you know what the enemy-one who comes to steal, kill and destroy clouds in your mind…that was it). There are those who let me use their houses as prayer rooms, there are those that called me for part time jobs, there are those that offered help as God directed them, others were just sent to encourage, motivate, inspire; the list can go on.  I am grateful for God using His people, even when least expected and my daily prayer is that may their store houses never lack and may your grace and favour Lord be upon all of them.

In this journey of “FAITH IT TILL YOU MAKE IT” there are valleys and mountain moments, we are all a working progress because the valley moments always seem more than the mountain moments, but it’s because we look at it with a human (worldly) perspective instead of a Godly perspective. So let us know that God is always with us no matter what, it may never look like it but He is in the FAITH journey with us. Let us appreciate all seasons because they teach us something, renew us in our hearts, minds and we testify of God’s doing which all glory goes back to Him.

Verses about faith:

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Psalm 46:10 Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!

John 8:24 unless you believe that I am who I claim to be, you will die in your sins.

John 7:38 Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.

Romans 10:17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.