You could have a similar experience as I did, and be forever changed. ![]() To those who are struggling with their faith, my hope and message is: try it the Lord’s way with as much gusto as you have put into losing your faith. Isn’t that what those who encourage faithlessness are doing, and are applauded for doing so by those of like mind? I ask: what’s up? I’ve told my experience and related my sincere feelings. Now, some who read this will be annoyed or even angry. The gifts of the Spirit are real and powerful and will prevent us from being deceived (D&C 46:8), but we need to be willing to wrestle with the Lord in mighty prayer (Enos 1:2) in order to acquire these blessings. God can and will support us in our difficulties and trials if we diligently seek Him. When my faith was challenged I turned to the Lord and found the promises made in the scriptures, and taught by church leaders, to be attainable, but it took an Enos like effort to realize the promise. In just about every account of those whose faith is overcome, seeking God’s help is often not mentioned, when it is, it is evident there wasn’t the kind of effort made as the Lord requires ( Mosiah 11:25). Prayer, fasting and like Spiritual resources seem to allude those who are caught in the vortex of failing faith. The Lord teaches us to call upon Him in mighty prayer to acquire the kind of faith needed when we’re in a crisis of faith. However, studying isn’t the ultimate solution to deal with issues of faith. Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). We can choose to have our faith incrementally destroyed by “studying”, or increased by “studying-it depends on what we’re allowing to occupy our thoughts. stories from teens emerging from tragic childhood events, he expected to. ![]() There are many ways to handle trials to our faith. It seems many in the Bloggernacle are stuck in the twilight zone of shrunken faith by choice, and when this mindset is challenged by someone who can relate miraculous encounters with the things of the Spirit, they are instantly marginalized by the defenders of the status quo. But they are rare, receive few comments, and are quickly forgotten. On occasion, someone will relate how they had a Spiritual experience that resolved their difficulty with church history or one of the other confounders of faith. In the years I’ve been blogging, tales of lost or failing faith is a constant and recurring theme in the Bloggernacle.
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