Faith Talks host: Hello there, I’m Jana Faith.

And I’m Anna Faith.

And welcome to episode 10 of Faith Talks.

So we are coming to the end of a couple things.

First of all, we’re coming to the end of the year. 2021 is almost over.

Faith Talks host: And yesterday we just finished our semester, fall semester for college.

So that was really exciting for me.

Faith Talks host: And I don’t know about you, but it went really fast this year.

I cannot believe it’s already almost done.

And it’s hard to believe it’s episode 10 of Faith Talks, too.

Faith Talks host: That has a whole year, I think.

Just about.

Faith Talks host: Yeah.

Yeah, so that’s, and then we’re also coming to the end of our study on the fruit of the spirit.

So to all of our dedicated listeners out there.

Faith Talks host: Jan, I don’t think we have that many dedicated listeners.

Faith Talks host: Oh, you’re probably right.

Well, to those of you who maybe have listened to multiple of them, you might kind of know which ones we’ve done of the fruit of the spirit.

So try to kind of think in your head which one we have not done yet.

Faith Talks host: So this is kind of, this might give it away, This is kind of our grand finale of our Fruit of the Spirit series.

And it also ties right into our title of our podcast.

So yes, you might have guessed it.

It’s faith.

And I know as we talked about faith a little bit in our first podcast last January, today we want to just dive into understanding faith a little deeper and just kind of go around it in a different light and encourage your faith with another very special ladies’ testimony today.

Faith Talks host: so first of all we thought we’d just give a little background of our names and why we’re named faith and I think in my family it’s kind of neat our middle names my parents did the fruit of the spirit so my oldest sister’s middle name is joy and that’s true about her she’s a very joyful person um in one of the podcasts we talked about my aunt joy and she was named after her and stephanie is very joy and just has brought even joy to our home even though she’s gone now um and then I have a younger sister and her middle name is Hope and she’s very hopeful, positive, very much of an encourager.

And then there’s me.

I mean my middle name is Faith.

So you’re like, oh yes, you’re a woman of faith, right?

Well, no, actually that’s something I have struggled with and even throughout my life when I’ve gone through rough times, my parents just reminded me we named you that for a reason.

And I think the biggest thing is just learning to trust God and faith.

Sometimes you can look at your own self and say, like, I have so little faith.

You know, you feel like you have that little mustard seed faith, or maybe not even that, but just having a confidence of who am I placing that faith in.

And the more and more I realize who my God is and how big he is and how amazing and how much he loves and cares for me, then it’s easier to have faith when you realize who you’re having your faith in.

And that’s just been a neat connection with faith in my own life,

Faith Talks host: God teaching me that I was named this for a reason.

And as you also know, my middle name is Faith.

And I’ll just briefly share how my name came to be after my parents had found out that they were expecting another girl.

They actually went on a missions trip to Singapore during that time.

And while they were there, they had several prayer meetings.

And during one of those prayer meetings, as they were thinking about my name, different options during this whole time, God gave them the name Anna Faith.

And my first name, Anna, referring to the woman of faith in the New Testament, she was a prophetess.

She lived during the time of Jesus’ birth, and she really did choose to have faith and believe that the Messiah was coming.

It meant so much unbelief of her day, and she was really a light shining during that day.

And God honored her faith, as we know, and she was able to see Jesus before she died. and so just having that special name Anna and then tying the faith also into that those both two names together it’s just been really encouraging to me I mean there’s been so many times when I have felt discouraged like Jana was saying and felt like I don’t have any faith at all and just my parents coming to me reminded me God gave us your name it’s not just some cool name that we thought of it was from God and we really believe that you will be a woman of faith and that’s just encouraging to just see my parents’ faith and believing that God wants to use my life.

And so that’s just a little bit of how my name came to be as well.

Faith Talks host: That is neat.

You know, I never thought about the connection between Anna, the first name, and how she was a woman of faith and then faith right after it.

It’s like a double.

Yes.

And my name, I mean, it’s kind of Anna.

It’s got the J on the front.

But I actually am, for the record, I am in the Bible.

I’m in a genealogy spelled right and everything, J-A-N-N-A.

I was a man who beget somebody.

So that’s the significance of that.

But so that’s just a little bit about us and faith as our name.

And we are super excited to have here with us today, Mrs.

Bosler.

And she is just going to tell us a little bit about how God has used faith in her life and just brought her on a journey of faith.

So Mrs.

Bosler, would you mind just kind of introducing yourself and telling us a little bit about what you do, maybe some hobbies you enjoy and just a little bit about yourself.

Guest: Well, I am Abby Bosler and I travel with my husband, Bobby Bosler, about two-thirds of the year.

We do a couple of teen ministries called The War and then The Quill Clash during the summer.

And essentially they’re the same program.

Some of you listening might have actually attended one of our meetings or maybe were saved through one of our meetings.

But what we do is we come into a church, we go out into the community and we find as many teens as we can and we invite them out to a three-night rally going on that week at a local church in their area.

And my husband will run a bunch of really huge competitions with the big ball and spoke tackle and all kinds of fun things like that.

And then at the end of the night of all three nights, he will preach the gospel.

So my role in all of that is number one, to keep my husband going and to make sure that he is eating well and drinking enough water and all of that as we travel.

But also we have four children.

We have David who is 10 and Eva who is seven.

She’s going to be eight in January.

And then we have a three-year-old who’s going to be four.

His name is Jude.

And then this year in April, we had our little COVID, post-COVID baby named Faith, which is actually kind of a special thing since we’re doing the podcast on faith this week.

So that’s what I do.

And during the week, I will homeschool my children and we do all the normal things that maybe some of your families do.

But we also do whatever we can to assist.

So sometimes my children will go out and go recruiting or help out as much as they can.

They’re pretty young still.

I also assist with just doing the registration and then counseling time at the end of the night if people are ready to be saved.

And I will help out with that as well.

I also help out with just some logistical things as we’re traveling every weekend and making sure we have housing and we have good places to stop with our big trailer and all of that.

So that’s what I do.

And then in the fall, we come home and my husband teaches here at Baptist College of Ministry at Falls Baptist Church.

And so then I get to do some of the same things, but also get to have a broader ministry in just a church setting and just being an encouragement and a help wherever I can to the people who are ministering here normally.

So that’s what I do.

As far as hobbies, I enjoy baking a lot, and I’m always trying to refine that, which is not good because my husband and I both had to lose weight this fall, so I didn’t get to use.

I got to do some keto baking, but it wasn’t quite as fun as regular baking, so I do enjoy doing that, and cooking in general, I enjoy that as well.

And how many years have you been traveling?

Well, full-time with my husband, we’ve been traveling.

We started in 2011.

We closed up our apartment as a newly married couple.

I was pregnant with our son.

And so that would be what going on, I guess, 11 years like that, something like that.

And then we started our first war tour in 2012.

Before that, we kind of went on a deputation to raise some support.

Faith Talks host: And flashback, Mrs.

Bosler actually traveled with me way back.

What year was that?

I think that was 2007.

Guest: I think you were fourth grade.

Faith Talks host: Okay.

Yeah.

Wow, that was a long time ago.

Guest: Oh, I have stories.

Oh, dear.

Faith Talks host: Okay, moving right along.

So we’re going to be talking about faith, and so we’re just going to first kind of discuss what is faith.

When you hear the word faith, what do you guys think of?

Trust.

Guest: Dependence.

Reliance.

Faith Talks host: I think, like, as we were going back before, like what the world thinks, A lot of times people think faith is just your religion.

You have faith in something.

Faith Talks host: Because people will even say, like, how strong is your faith?

Like, do you have strong faith or not?

Just even that if you believe in a God at all, that’s some kind of a faith.

Guest: And often that’s what I will hear from teens.

You know, maybe they come from a church background and they’ll say, well, yeah, I’m a Christian.

I believe in God.

You know, I believe that there is a God.

They know all the facts about God.

So they believe that they have faith because they simply just believe facts.

Faith Talks host: I think believe and faith are often used kind of interchangeably.

Like you just got to believe, you know, you just got to have faith and not really understanding the difference in those words.

Anything from the Bible that stands out to you about faith?

I was thinking of the verse that talks about without faith, it is impossible to please God, or faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Guest: So in the Bible, we see faith exhibited over and over again.

And as a teenager, one of the things we had to do, I was homeschooled, and my mom had us do a journal of faith.

So we would read through the Bible and look for maybe verses or even examples of faith or examples where maybe somebody wasn’t walking in faith and they didn’t choose to believe what God said or obey or whatever.

And we see those examples, especially like even reiterated in Hebrews 11 from the Old Testament.

We see many people who, for some reason or another in their life, were put in circumstances where they had to choose to believe God to see God’s will accomplished.

And we are very blessed to see their testimony, this crowd of witnesses that have gone on before us who have exhibited, literally lived out faith for us.

And what’s encouraging to me about faith is you don’t have to be a perfect person to be able to see God bear this fruit of the Spirit in you. because we see these people in this chapter of faith and even in the Old Testament, and they are far from perfect people.

We even see Jesus’ disciples and how they grew in their journey of faith and how they learned to live by faith.

And as they were learning to live by faith, there were many bumps and bruises.

Even times when God had to rebuke them, Jesus had to rebuke them because of their lack of faith, and yet they were still growing in their faith despite all of that.

Faith Talks host: I remember I think it was in a message last year that I heard where somebody just gave a big list of sins.

And they just gave sin after sin after sin.

And at the end, you’re like, OK, who are these people that are being described with these big, you know, terrible sins?

And then he gave another list.

And it was like, oh, you know, the apostles or just different people of faith you would really look up to in the Bible.

And just to realize, like, yes, they had problems, too.

But it was their faith that made them stand apart from maybe the other people of their day.

Guest: Yes.

And we see that really even in the life of Abraham, where he was a man who actually was an idolater.

And we see him coming out of Ur and out of this lifestyle that maybe was popular and what was normal and what was comfortable.

And yet he believed God.

He believed that there was a better country.

He believed what God told him, what God promised him. and even though everything humanly looked like it wasn’t going to happen even throughout his life there were promises that God gave him that he wouldn’t see he wouldn’t see the people of Israel and how they are today and what a blessed people they are he wouldn’t see all of that with his own eyes but he was promised it and he believed it and in his faith it was counted for righteousness and we know that God was deeply pleased with him because he would come and he would talk to him face to face and he would share things with him that he wouldn’t share with anybody else you know you know even the sodom and gomorrah that they were going to be destroyed and so god it seems like has um is deeply pleased and is greatly um i don’t want to say attracted that’s probably the wrong term but he loves faith in his economy faith is the foundational thing that we can do to please him and in fact we can’t please him without faith and so God always blesses faith and that’s something in my life that God has shown me over and over again that in circumstances that are beyond me or things that I wouldn’t necessarily choose but when I choose faith God steps in and God fulfills his promises or God teaches me what more of what I need to know in my life.

And so that’s, I’m really excited.

You actually had me come, I was thinking more and more just about how God has honored steps of faith in my life and how I’ve seen him bless deeply my life, despite of me, despite me, despite my faults and maybe ways where I haven’t always done right.

God has honored that.

And it’s interesting because faith has nothing to do

Faith Talks host: with the person who’s having faith, but it has everything to do with the person or what their, I guess, the object or the person who they’re placing that faith, that dependence on.

And could you just share with us, it’s great to hear stuff from maybe the past of the Bible, but could you share with us maybe just some times in your life where you had to take steps of faith or there was times where things didn’t make sense, but you had to just choose to walk by faith?

Sure.

So my family

Guest: is my parents are first-generation Christians, so they came out of homes that were not, they were raised religiously, but they were not raised to know Christ personally as their Savior.

And, you know, they went to church, and they heard about God, and I would say they had what most people would call faith, faith that there was a God.

But as far as believing faith, the salvation faith, they didn’t have that.

And so when they were in their 20s, someone in their neighborhood invited my mom to a bible study and being a person of faith you know she wanted to know more about the bible and so she went in through that eventually she was saved my dad was saved and eventually my siblings were saved and I was not actually born until later and by the time I was born both my parents were saved and they actually made a decision to have more children because they started to grow and they started to realize oh children are you know heritage of the So you are a result of faith.

I am a result of faith.

In fact, my parents had three more children after me, but they all passed away when my mom was pregnant with them.

So I am very thankful that this faith journey that my parents started and then passed on to me, it started because I don’t really believe that I would be here had someone not given my parents the gospel and seen them through.

And so that was, you know, my upbringing.

But then when I was three, my mom really knew that I was pretty close to salvation.

And so she confronted me with my need.

I was going to be having some surgery.

And she wanted to make sure I knew for sure I was going to heaven.

So that was where my journey of faith began.

On that day, as a three-year-old, I remember praying and asking the Lord to save me.

And depending on him alone to save me from my sin.

Not the fact that I was from a Christian home or went to church or any of that.

And so that was where my faith journey really began was that dependence on Jesus for what he could do in my life and what he could do for my eternal destiny and what he could do for me.

And also what I then, of course, as I started to grow, I realized what God expected of me to serve him.

And so that was really where my faith journey started.

And as I grew older, you know, I was a pretty good teen.

I wasn’t super rebellious.

There were definitely things that were not pleasing to the Lord, but I really did hold on to truth as I would gain it.

And my mom and dad made sure I was in church, and we went to special meetings and evangelists.

I heard, you know, John Van Gelderen.

I heard Morris Gleiser.

I heard Jim Van Gelderen.

I heard all these different wonderful evangelists that would come to our church, and we would go to other churches for special meetings.

My parents placed a great, just a great emphasis on hearing the word, which is obviously where our faith comes from, is hearing the word.

So when it came to college time, I was not necessarily not surrendered or walking by faith, but I didn’t really have a desire to necessarily go into full-time ministry.

I kind of wanted a career, kind of wanted to, you know, be, not be a mom.

I didn’t really want to be a mom.

I didn’t really want to be married.

I just wanted to, you know, have my own life.

And I wouldn’t say I was rebelling.

It’s just that was what my desire was.

And so God brought my parents to really put a couple choices of college to me.

And even in that, I had to surrender and really believe God, that God is leading through my parents.

And they gave me a couple choices.

And one of the choices was BCM, Baptist College of Ministry.

And that is how I ended up here.

And it really was a faith step for me because at that point in my life, I didn’t feel like I really belonged.

I was different than everybody else here.

You know, I just wasn’t raised.

I didn’t think was raised like everybody else, you know, the kids who came here or whatever.

But God led me here.

And then the Lord started to really do a process of deepening me and shredding my flesh and bringing me to new points of surrender where I had to take steps of faith.

I remember the first door that, you know, the first time I would go out soul winning.

I actually hadn’t even had nutcasters.

So I was really getting on the job training as we were going out on our bus route.

So that was another aspect of faith of opening my mouth to say what I should say and not fear rejection, not fear what they’re going to think of me.

So that was just another aspect of faith.

And then God worked in my heart about staying a four-year term here at the college and getting a music degree, which I really wasn’t thrilled about at the time.

But now I’m so thankful that by faith I did it.

I knew what the Lord wanted, and I took that degree.

And the Lord’s used it in so many different ways.

I don’t think I would be even half equipped to do what I’m supposed to be doing had I not just God had shown me that and I obeyed.

But then as the Lord brought my husband into my life and even just more steps of faith, the Lord was teaching us about believing God even for the impossible, for those short-term things.

You know, we would travel as a single person, maybe with Dr.

Jim or somebody, And we would, you know, there were needs, you know, maybe in the student body and the kids weren’t breaking.

And really, humanly speaking, they shouldn’t really, you know, come to terms with their sin.

But we would pray and God and we would believe God and believe that God wanted to break through.

And he would.

And we would see miracles.

And then as we got married and, you know, we knew what was kind of coming up.

And we in May of 2011, we God called us to go on the road.

And that was a point in time where we were basically folding everything up.

We were getting rid of stuff.

We were storing stuff.

We would have no more home that we could rely upon, that we could say we can go home.

And that was another journey of faith.

But I would have to say when God calls you to take these steps of faith and you know it’s the Lord, he gives you such grace and peace that even people looking on think, how could you do that?

I just don’t know how you could take that step of faith.

And we see that even Abraham, you know, he just left everything.

He became a nomad.

And I’ve actually often taken great comfort in that, you know, that Jesus probably didn’t really have a home.

Abraham didn’t really have a home.

Elijah and Elisha probably didn’t really have homes.

And so the Lord led us on the road.

And that was just another aspect of starting, stepping out, stepping out of the boat, like we hear Dr.

Jim preaching about stepping out in faith.

And if God doesn’t catch us, then we’re toast.

You know, if he doesn’t lift us, keep us above the waves, we’re gone.

And so many times God did that financially.

I think we started the war on like $300.

That’s all we had.

We had a little bit of equipment and we had $300 to start on and we stepped out in faith.

And that is, you know, another aspect.

God often asks us to trust him with our finances.

And we did.

And he’s never been, never, we have never suffered because we’ve done that.

God’s always blessed.

In fact, sometimes we give and he gives back more.

And so even when you can’t feel it, you can’t see it, and you step out in faith and you obey God and you know it’s God.

And I’m not talking about foolishness.

I’m not talking about, you know, just getting a whim and stepping, I’m going to, you know, do this thing and I’m just going to expect God to do it.

You really have to have a walk of faith with God and know what God wants and what God’s will is and what God’s word says is really the foundation of where your faith should be.

So often we would just take those really scary steps of faith.

But then God started, you know, every week was a step of faith.

Are kids going to show up?

Are people going to be saved?

Is the church going to be mad?

You know, we only had 10 kids show up or whatever, you know.

There’s just all those scary moments of faith.

So that was another aspect.

But then actually before we launched out, we had a couple of really big trials that God put us through.

And one, I think, was to really teach us that even when God says no, and we believe him, but he says no to what we think, that we can still believe God.

And so one was where our daughter died, our baby daughter died.

I was 24 weeks along, and she had just some genetic problems, and we knew she was going to die, and we still believed God.

We said, God, if you wanted her to live, she will live, no matter what the doctors say.

We’re going to believe you.

We know that it’s probably going to be that she’s going to die, but we’re going to honor you with our faith.

And around that same time, my mom was also dying of cancer.

And so even in those things, over and over again, God was leading us to believe him, even when circumstances looked bad.

And I’m really glad that now, looking back, I believed him, that I trusted him, that I made decisions based on not fear, but based on faith.

And looking back, even though they were hard times, they weren’t traumatic.

They were full of grace.

They were full of health.

They were full of life.

And God gave me grace through those difficult times.

And so faith really in my life, and I could give many, many other circumstances of provisions or times when, you know, we needed something and God just provided.

And we believed that God was going to supply our need according to our riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

We relied on the Lord for what he could do, not just what we could do humanly, but we could obey him, which is what we can do when we walk by faith.

But we have to believe him to do what he said he’s going to do.

And I am so glad that I started this journey of faith, even in college, even before college.

And I continue that journey of faith.

Even tonight, we were just trusting the Lord with our trailer.

We have some huge winds coming up, 61 mile an hour winds.

And so we were just now closing up all of our trailer, and we’re going to put the kids, tuck them everywhere, even though we won’t have our slides out.

Just we’re going to trust the Lord with our trailer and believe him that he’s going to take care of it.

It’s his trailer.

Faith Talks host: And so we’re, again, trusting the Lord, believing him.

That’s interesting.

There is also outside, there’s a bunch of Christmas trees and Christmas lights for the village.

So they were talking about hopefully those don’t blow over too.

So it’ll be an interesting night.

I think just listening to you give some of your story, it’s just so interesting.

Faith isn’t just like a one and done.

Like it is so much of a just a daily decision to trust even when you can’t see.

And I think that’s a really good lesson to just going into Christmas break.

Because I don’t know when you have family around during Christmas break, there might be some unexpected challenges or things you think.

How can you know, how can God work this together for good? but just making that decision of faith that I’m going to trust you, God, no matter what’s going on.

Do you guys have any thoughts about going into Christmas break, just how people could make it practical?

Faith Talks host: One thought that I had this morning, I was listening to a message from Dr.

Jim that I was preaching to our student body.

And one thing he mentioned was the only way that you can get faith or grow your faith is by spending time with God and spending time in his word.

That’s where faith just grows.

And so that was really encouraging to me, like a practical thing.

Okay, I don’t just have to believe more, but I can actually just spend time in his word and say, okay, God, here’s a promise.

I believe you with this.

And apply those promises to specific areas in your life where maybe you’re struggling and you feel like I don’t have faith and I don’t know how to get it.

So that’s one thing that I thought of.

Guest: Well, the word does feed our faith.

Again, it’s not foolishness where we just think up something we think God wants to do.

That’s foolishness.

That’s a name it and claim it.

You know, that’s not of the Lord.

But the word does feed our faith.

And I would just say, you know, for every person, don’t get lost in the temporary joy of the holidays.

There’s a lot of festivities and fun and parties and seeing relatives.

But try to ask God, God, what do you have for this day?

What do you have for this event?

What action steps should I take?

What person should I witness to?

My husband actually led somebody to the Lord at a Christmas party when he was in college.

And that guy’s on the mission field now.

He came from an unsaved home.

He led him to the Lord at a family Christmas party.

He was the neighbor kid.

And he ended up at Bible college and went to the mission field.

That is so neat.

So you never know.

Sometimes humanly you might be a little scared, a little apprehensive about saying something to that relative.

But just share what God’s doing in your life.

You don’t have to make it weird.

You don’t have to make it awkward.

When people say, hey, what are you doing at college?

What have you learned at college?

Or what opportunities have you gotten?

You know, share with them.

Just say, hey, I’ve been learning so much about God’s word.

I’ve been able to tell people about Jesus, how they can know for sure they’re going to heaven.

Or, you know, whatever.

Whatever those opportunities, the Holy Spirit is the one that will help you.

Say what you need to say, but you have to be yielded.

You have to take the step of faith.

God’s not going to just force you into a situation.

You have to choose to have eyes of faith and really your actions have to be in line with what God wants and obedience, even when it’s uncomfortable and maybe even when you just want to kind of sit back and just relax and not worry about your walk with the Lord, which is so easy during Christian, you know, Christians, even during Christmas is we just want to kind of sit back, kick back, enjoy the holiday, and not really move forward in our faith and what God wants us to do each day and each moment we’re home or with relatives or whatever.

Faith Talks host: I think that’s really good, just like looking for the open doors and believing by faith that God is going to give you them.

Just one quick story.

We went ice skating the other night, and I just went, I was like, God, would you lead me to somebody?

I’m not going to go witness to every single person skating around, but would you just lead me to somebody who’s going to be open?

And it was long story short, but I got there and there was this girl and she didn’t know how to skate.

And so I was like, well, I’ll help teachers.

So I was helping her and then I was talking to the parents and mentioned our church and was inviting them to stuff.

And they were like, oh, we were at your Christmas carol like two days ago.

And so it was a huge open door to talk to them.

And they’re going to be back this weekend and wanted to possibly come to Sunday school.

And they were just wide open.

And she’s like, wow, what a coincidence we met.

And I got her phone number and it was great.

But it was like it was so not me.

It was just God.

But even just looking for those doors and saying, God, I know you’re going to bring them.

And when you do bring them, I’m going to take that step of faith and open my mouth or lend a hand with ice skating.

Guest: And actually, same thing happened to me.

We were I was working in the Christian village and I had prayed, Lord, just give me an opportunity to speak to somebody.

But I think we’re all afraid of that awkward.

Like, so where are you from?

And, you know, trying to get that conversation started.

And yet God literally brought a man up and started the conversation.

I just shared a little bit of just some things about my family, instant connection.

It was an older gentleman, not saved.

And I was able to just share the gospel.

And as I was, there was just some bitterness there, maybe for some hurts from how people treated him when he came back from the Vietnam War.

And the Lord just put it right in my mind.

Well, he was rejected of men.

He was a man of sorrows.

He was not received by his own.

His own received him not.

And so just the Lord put those words right there in my head and through my mouth to this man that I would have never known what to say to in my own weakness.

And when I just obeyed the Lord and trust him, the Lord worked.

He didn’t get saved, but there was the presence of the Lord was there.

And there was definitely conviction.

And God was speaking through me using his word that I was quoting.

It was just really neat.

So that’s another encouragement of how God can use you during your Christmas break.

Faith Talks host: And we were even talking just how faith is actually the only one that’s the same between the fruit of the spirit and the armor of God.

And just that connection in your everyday battle that faith is, I think it’s the shield of faith.

And just thinking of, you know, when Satan may tempt you with different doubts and those fiery darts coming in, even this Christmas break, just holding up that shield of faith, which is just the promises of God’s word and saying, I’m not going to trust how I feel, but I’m going to trust the Lord and I’m going to hold up that shield of faith.

And one other thing I was thinking of, just the practical, I know in my life when I’ve had different circumstances where I really was struggling with faith, God brought me to a point where he just said, well, why don’t you just praise me for it?

And I think sometimes I’m like, no, but it hasn’t happened yet.

Like you haven’t answered the prayer or I don’t see any light at the end of the tunnel.

You know, I still feel like I’m in the darkness.

But God just saying, well, why don’t you just praise me for what I’m going to do?

Praise me for who I am.

And it’s usually not even just, you know, a few minutes into that I realize, wow, how good God is.

And how much I just need to praise him more often just for everything.

So even as you go through things this holiday, maybe you’ll go through different trials or matters you’re just praying through.

Faith Talks host: even for your future, but just praising the Lord for who he is.

So as we all head into the Christmas break time, if you’re worried about having faith or how do I get faith, just simply go to God, claim those promises that he’s given to you, and just say, Lord, I believe, help thou my unbelief, and ask him to give you faith.

And just as Jan and Mrs.

Bosler were talking about, take that step.

It’s not just something that, oh, God, give me faith and then just passively sitting there, but actually taking a step.

And honestly, God will give you those opportunities that the ladies were talking about.

And just realize God wants to use you.

You were created specifically by God to do something special that no one else could do.

And just believe that God has that special place for you.

And as you take that step of faith, as you look to God, as you trust him for every step, he will honor, he will bless, and he will change you as you follow him in every step of your journey of faith.

So let’s remember this break as you go through each and every day.

Faith doesn’t just talk.

Faith walks.