We pray about a lot of things. And we sometimes think that time waiting on God to answer is wasted time, but it is not. It is the time God uses to prepare our hearts to be able to hear His answer. God desires to speak to us and He wants us to listen.

God’s Word teaches us that He wants us to live by faith. The object of our faith must be Jesus Christ.

“Now the just shall live by faith:” Hebrews 10:38

No matter what is taking place around us, the only way we can have a victorious life is faith in Jesus Christ.

Faith is described in Hebrews 11:1: “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”

God wants us to be humble. Proud people are headed for destruction. But those who walk by faith in Jesus Christ are promised victory.

Instead of trying to handle things on our own, we need to have faith in Jesus and depend on Him to take care of the things we ask Him.

By Patsy Lambert

Contributing Columnist

Patsy Lambert is from Whitmire. Her columns appear weekly in The Newberry Observer.