Faith Archives - Faith Spilling Over

When You Need to Grow Faith and Stop Worry

October 16, 2018 by betsydecruz 12 Comments

Worried about something? How about turning your focus away from trouble and towards God? These 3 truths about our Heavenly Father will calm your fears.

When was the last time God spoke to you via email? A few weeks ago, I got a random email from someone I barely know. The message included no greeting or closing. Only the words: “His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.”

Most likely, I received that email by accident, but I recognized God wanted me to get that message because He knew I’d been feeling worried. The troubles I was facing weren’t out of the ordinary, but they’d stolen my peace and made me forget God’s care for me.

I didn’t mention my “email from God’ to anyone, but a few days later when my husband and I visited friends, I got the message again. When our friend handed me a teacup, I saw the words, clear as a bell, on the side of that cup:

“His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.”

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When Life Looks Uncertain, Jesus is the Way

July 11, 2017 by betsydecruz 32 Comments

When life looks uncertain, remember Jesus is the way. He’s our faithful companion and guide. Here are 3 Truths to build your faith in challenging times.

When I stepped into my neighbor’s house, twenty veiled heads turned to stare at me. I froze. I wished the ground would swallow me up. Everyone got quiet as all eyes fixed on my husband standing next to me. He was the only man in the room.

Without blinking an eye, our hostess smiled and asked, “Perhaps your husband would feel more comfortable in our television room?”

She whisked Jose off to another part of the house as I walked into the living room and began greeting the ladies in a language I barely knew. I thought I might faint. When my neighbor had invited me to her son’s circumcision celebration, I’d assumed it was for couples. How could I have missed the fact that this was a party for ladies only?

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Hope When You Can’t See God at Work

December 6, 2016 by betsydecruz 41 Comments

If you’re praying, but don’t see God at work, take heart. Look for small answers, and remember that God’s love and light always win.

The Christmas story is good news when we wonder if God hears our prayers. Celebrations, carols, and lights bring tidings of joy, but some of you might be battling discouragement. As the year comes to an end, we may see things in our lives we wish were different. Maybe we asked God to change them, but it doesn’t look like He did.

We carry around inside the ache of unanswered prayer.

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When You Need to Fight Fear with Faith

July 5, 2016 by betsydecruz 53 Comments

Fear makes us forget God and His care for us. Faith focuses on His love and power. 3 Steps to shift your focus toward God when fear knocks at your door. Have you ever noticed that what you focus on grows bigger in your mind?

Recently I woke up in the wee hours of the morning thinking fearful thoughts. The night before, our family had watched a classic thriller, The Day of the Jackal. We had fun watching, but guess what this “Faith Spilling Over” woman was thinking about when she woke up at 3:00 a.m.? I was counting out how many people the “Jackal” had murdered.

You can probably guess I had trouble going back to sleep. By today’s standards, the movie was fairly harmless. But as I replayed in my mind how the main character did away with each person, a vague uneasiness settled over me.

Know what helped me? My Bible.

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Keeping God at the Center of Your Dream

February 18, 2015 by betsydecruz Leave a Comment

My husband and I embarked on the craziest, most impossible faith venture of our lives four years ago. God called us to plant a new church in a Muslim city where, humanly speaking, no one is interested in the gospel.

We had no idea what we were getting ourselves into. That was a good thing because had we known, we probably wouldn’t have said “yes” to God in the first place.

Follow this link to join me over at God-Sized Dreams and read about what we learned when we took our biggest faith risk yet.

I’m also linking up with Meredith Bernard’s Woman2Woman and Jennifer Dukes Lee’s #TellHisStory today.

“His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.”

We carry around inside the ache of unanswered prayer.

Know what helped me? My Bible.

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