Confidence in God's Promises | Vol I, Week 12 — Held Catholic Devotional

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So this is week 12 of Held.

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And I'm just gonna pause right there for a quick second because this is week 12.

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for those of you who are following along in the book, and have been listening to the podcasts all along, it's one more week before the end of volume one.

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so that's pretty, it's pretty exciting.

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It's a little bit of a milestone for me here, so I just wanted to kinda take a second and, and just realize that.

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And, it's been an exciting journey, and we've made a lot of different videos and, a ton of, podcast episodes.

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it's been a great journey.

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I can't wait to continue on and going into volume two.

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So but we're getting ahead of ourselves.

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It's still week 12, and this week is talking about confidence in God's promises.

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and as, as you're listening to the podcast this week and going through the Lectio Divina, you're gonna...

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the, the scriptures are very thematically p- focused on this and how, speaking how God doesn't lie.

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As a matter of fact, I think that's one of the first scriptures that we're gonna read this week is talking about how God is not capable of lying.

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and that's one of the things that Really challenged me, and it led to a moment that actually led to the moment that led to me writing these books.

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because it was in a moment where I wasn't confident in God's promises at all.

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those of you who have been following along, and you know my story, I obviously, I deal with, fear and anxiety.

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it's the root of, what's...

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what held is all about, is to help folks through that and just, and being real about it too and realizing that, we're, we can continue to struggle but can also continue to find joy i- in the world.

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and that's again, getting back to the story, it's that not having that confidence i- in God's promises led me to a moment where, I, I was just struggling with anxiety.

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it was really creeping in, and it was limiting my ability to just travel and just...

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And I'm not even talking about, travel abroad or anything like that.

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I'm just talking local travel.

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I was having a difficult time, getting behind the wheel of a car, and it was really just, limiting my ability to do s- to do anything.

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and I was, I was, you know, doing all sorts of stuff, but m- most importantly, one of the things that I was doing to help overcome that was praying, and I was praying all the time.

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I did not stop.

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and I was begging, and I was pleading the, the Lord to take it from me.

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And it was a moment where I was just extremely frustrated, and I was in adoration, and I was s- just sitting there, and I was kinda, I was angry.

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And I just spent the be- beginning time, the moments when I was just arrived in adoration, and I was praying, and I was just, I was just praying to God.

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I was, I was mad.

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I was, I was...

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I wouldn't even call it a prayer.

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I think in my mind I was yelling at Him, and I was asking Him, and I was saying, "Lord, you, you promise us that, that if we pray, if we pray continually and we, we continue to come to you, that you'll answer our prayers."

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and I just laid it all out, there, and I just told him He's not answering my prayers, and he's...

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you know, why is He letting me suffer? and then I just, I let that go, and I just entered into, in, into, just these, these moments of contemplation in adoration where I just tried to quiet my mind and just, give, give the Lord, His opportunity to and, and allow myself, to hear His words.

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And in those moments, following, He spoke to me, and He told me that, He wasn't gonna get rid of my anxiety, that He wasn't going to allow it to disappear because we were going to use it And I remember walking out of adoration that day, and it, it- things just changed.

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It really just changed.

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it was almost like that, that reminder that from God, like, "Have confidence," that, "I promise that we're gonna go through this and w- and it'll be okay," Now, he never promised he was gonna take it away.

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He promised we were gonna use it.

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and the end result of that, was actually another moment in adoration where, he put on my heart to write these books.

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So it's having confidence in God's promise, I think that the theme of this week was something that was really, really very personal for me, and I think it's probably personal, for a lot of us because it- we're not always confident in God's promises.

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We're not always, sitting back and, and being, "Hey, this is, God said it'll be okay," and we're just, it's gonna be okay, we are-- we question often.

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but the other thing is when we do think about that, we do sit back and we think about God's promises, one of the things that he never did promise is he never did promise that everything was gonna be easy, that believing in him and having faith in him, was something that was going to come easy So again, as we enter into, to week 12, I wanted to just share that story with you because I think that, to just say the words con- to be confident in God's promises, it, it's not always the easiest thing to do, and it challenges us.

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And I hope that this week, listening to these scriptures that are, gonna be on the podcast on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and just...

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And allowing yourself those moments through Lectio Divina to really just open your heart, to God's words and to fully understand how He's speaking to you.

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I, I think if we give ourself tho- those opportunities, we can get those moments of clarity.

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We can get that, that opportunity for God to speak to us through scripture and help just assure us and remind us that He is always with us So again, I hope that you find peace in the words that I've written here.

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and I thank you so much for listening, and God bless.