{"id":449,"date":"2025-02-25T11:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T11:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star991\/2026\/01\/28\/faith-for-me\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T08:13:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T08:13:00","slug":"faith-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star991\/faith-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"When You Don’t Have Faith For Yourself, Hold On To This Powerful Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Why is it that I have no problem in praying for others!?   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked, I can pray and believe for them that God will do great and mighty things, but when it comes to having faith for my own job situation<\/a>, finances, health, etc. My \u201cfaith bulb\u201d<\/em> goes dim? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you ever experienced that?  I am guessing that it is more common than we might think. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently, a dear listener wrote to us and said, \u201cI love listening to the station and hearing uplifting stories. <\/em>However, I do have a confession to make.<\/em><\/strong> I am having some health issues and an uncertain diagnosis. Yesterday there was a story about the power of prayer and a total cure. I firmly believe in the power of prayer, and I have witnessed it, but I felt skeptical yesterday and realized maybe I don’t trust God’s plan for people enough.  I would appreciate prayers for my illness as well as prayers that I become more accepting and trusting in God’s plan for me.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I appreciate her honesty, because the truth is that I have the very same problem!  I have faith for you, but not for me.  <\/strong>What is even more startling is that the \u201cauto correct\u201d on my computer wants me to change my last sentence to, I have faith IN you, but not IN me. <\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wonder if part of the problem is that I self-sabotage by thinking God answers prayers based on my performance and good deeds? <\/p>\n\n\n

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If that is true, then it makes sense that I have both faith FOR you and IN you, because I know that I don\u2019t measure to my own standards, let alone God\u2019s.  In other words, that still small voice inside my head whispers, \u201cCertainly, He would help [insert the name of your friend], but He knows me too well\u201d<\/em> and then the disappointment sets in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I neither consider myself an expert in prayer or faith, but what I do know is that we serve a loving, merciful God that knows me inside out, past, present, and future and loves me enough to send His Son Jesus to die on a cross and on top of all that, He hears our prayers, petitions, and concerns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, as we journey onward, I know that both faith and prayer are mysteries, and they are neither formulas for success nor guarantees to be answered the way we wish.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

God is sovereign and His ways<\/a> are higher than my ways, and isn\u2019t that enough? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime, please join me in praying for our dear listening friend who has a health concern and is facing an uncertain diagnosis, and while you\u2019re at it, please pray for me, because I have faith in you; a little for myself, but mostly faith in God\u2019s amazing love. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let me know what you think and what you do when your \u201cfaith bulb\u201d goes dim.  I would love to hear your thoughts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dick Whitworth
Director of Operations, STAR<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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