Growing our faith

The Lord knows our weaknesses, our strengths, and how we can best respond to His Holy Spirit. Over the past year I have experience a growth of faith that is bigger and more exciting than any other in my entire life. It's not that things have been amazing, because honestly you could not pay me to go through this past year again. For sake of not rehashing everything that's happened, we'll just say there were some dry spells and some valleys. However, He has pulled through on every single thing. Ultimately He's done what He's done because of His sovereignty, not because of my cry for faith. However, He delights in blessing us and the cry of faith is done in Jesus' name.

{{Romans 4...
 ¹What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, discovered in this matter? ²If, in fact, Abraham was justified by works, he had something to boast about—but not before God. ³What does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."^[a]
 4Now when a man works, his wages are not credited to him as a gift, but as an obligation. ⁵However, to the man who does not work but trusts God who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness. ⁶David says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
 ⁷"Blessed are they
      whose transgressions are forgiven,
      whose sins are covered.
 ⁸Blessed is the man
      whose sin the Lord will never count against him."}}

I really feel that I've been able to relate with the life of Abraham. Believing despite the circumstances. I've begun fasting at certain times for mainly my family and all the things that are happening there. Things are happening! I have faith that everything will work out according to His good purpose (Rom. 8:28).

I feel that Aaron and I are going through a time of harvest right now, both relationally, financially and spiritually. In the seven years we've called ourselves a couple, we've been through an awful lot. Not that we weren't blessed before - it's not biblical to say that only good things that you're happy about are blessings - but a lot of what we've been through is really starting to show itself as blessing and also as preparation.

The Lord is good, He is enduring, He is faithful!