Have A Little Faith

[Demetria]

There were moments in my life when I didn’t feel that I could possibly start a business. The timing wasn’t right, I didn’t have enough experience, I was too young…my excuses went on and on.

Finally, one day I felt a twinge of excitement as I discovered that one of my hobbies of making homemade soaps could actually turn into a somewhat profitable business. I leapt forward into the world of business, learning the ins and outs of beginning my very first home-based business start up- keeping up with records, filing taxes, and managing the production and sales of each of my precious creations. Needless to say, it wasn’t long before I had stretched my entrepreneurial interests into other areas and found the faith to begin businesses in technology and website design.

None of this would have ever happened had I hidden behind my excuses of “can’ts”. All too often we succumb to failure, or worse yet, never taking those necessary steps to begin with, in order to make things happen in our lives.

In Matthew 11: 22-24, Jesus says: “Have faith in God. 23 For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. 24 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.”

God gives us the power to write our destinies. We decide to succeed or fail. We decide to speak to the mountain or not. We decide to doubt…or to believe.

It’s up to us.

Why don’t you start today to believe God for the things you’ve been needing in your life? Start by igniting the faith within you to believe for the impossible. Believe for the things that don’t seem quite so likely to happen. Stretch your faith to reach past the limits of the sky, and watch God do some incredible things for you!

[Christi Culp]

Demetria thanks so much for sharing your thoughts here with us! I began my morning with you and God! I've left my full time job where I was working many weeks of 55-60 hours. I had struggled with the decision to leave because of the state of the economy. As I prayed about finding a "new job", God gave me peace of mind to walk away from that job. While I do not have that weekly paycheck that I had there, I now have the time to focus on my home business with Blessings Unlimited which of course is a Christian based business. The company provides weekly calls that I had not been able to participate in because of my other job. Every call begins and ends with prayer, and I am on the phone with other women I've never met, but who share the love of the Lord and the work they are doing through Him. What a difference! It's easy to find excuses and to often I've taken those detours that can take us down the wrong road or even a dead end! I'm on a different road today than this time last Friday! And I am so thankful that God is in control!