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Popular speaker and author Thelma Wells points the way to a faith that surpasses women's expectations and dreams as she shares her journey through struggles and triumphs alongside dynamic, biblical teachings and godly guidance."Mama T" explains how women can ready their hearts for success, contentment, purpose, and much more as she moves them toward God's promises and calls them to:submit their lives and goals and dreams to Godpray over the dreams and visions God gives to them and wait with patienceweed out enemies of faith--greed, pride, ego--and make room for God's abundancelearn more about God's character to cultivate an effective faithtrust in God's generous and gracious plans for them--and live them outWomen will be filled with the assurance of God's presence and the joy of their own belief as they take steps forward with renewed hope and direction.

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers, Inc.
Date de parution	01 décembre 2010
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736940900
Langue	English

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God, I m Ready to Walk in Faith
T helma W ells

HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS
EUGENE, OREGON
Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Verses marked NKJV are taken from the New King James Version. Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Italics in Scripture quotations indicate author emphasis.
The Langston Hughes poem Mother to Son is from Collected Poems , copyright 1994 by The Estate of Langston Hughes. Reprinted with the permission of Harold Ober Associates Incorporated.
Published in association with Van Diest Literary Agency, PO Box 1482, Sisters, Oregon 97759, www.lastchapterpublishing.com
Cover illustrations 2010 Cartoon Resource
Cover by Koechel Peterson Associates, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota
GOD, I M READY TO WALK IN FAITH Copyright 2010 by Thelma Wells Published by Harvest House Publishers Eugene, Oregon 97402 www.harvesthousepublishers.com
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wells, Thelma.
God, I m ready to walk in faith / Thelma Wells.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-7369-3036-9 (pbk.)
1. Christian women-Religious life. I. Title.
BV4527.W4375 2011
248.8 43-dc22
2010030750
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means-electronic, mechanical, digital, photocopy, recording, or any other-except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.
Printed in the United States of America
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This book is dedicated to you, dear reader. I m delighted you want to discover more about what it means to walk by faith. I pray you ll discover insights and truths based on God s Word that will help you walk hand-in-hand with Jesus.
Acknowledgments
In my experience as a writer it s not often that a publishing company believes so much in an author that they wrap their arms around your work, encourage you while you re writing, and help sustain you as you market your work. I m blessed to be working with the wonderful people at Harvest House Publishers. The president, Bob Hawkins, and the entire staff with whom I ve worked have been nothing but tender when I ve been corrected, wise in their decisions, careful to deliver the Word of God accurately, zealous in seeking suggested outlets to market the works, sincere in their dedication to produce a quality product, innovative in their strategic plan for the books-and all this is done with godly integrity.
If I begin to name names I would be hurt if I accidently left anyone out, so I won t do that. There is someone I must name because he isn t a Harvest House employee, and that s my editor Thomas Womack. Thomas, thank you for reading my ideas and material and organizing them into a meaningful and logical progression so people can be helped.
I d also like to thank David Van Diest, the best literary agent in the world.
A word of thanks to my son, who helped teach me how to walk in faith. His words to me were, If you pray, Mama, why worry? In other words, Prayer and faith go hand-in-hand so where is your faith?
I sincerely appreciate all of you who work with me to make the Word of God come to life in the lives of the readers and viewers.
Contents
Acknowledgments
What Is Faith?
P ART 1: Faith That Trusts God with Your Family
1. Wearing Baby Shoes
2. Exploring One Mother s Story
3. Exercising Faith to Trust God More
P ART 2: Faith That Overcomes Your Fear
4. Facing Your Fears
5. The Right Training
6. Exercising Faith to Conquer Your Fears
P ART 3: Faith That Yields to God s Plans and Purposes
7. Wearing Grown-up Shoes
8. Hearing and Trusting
9. Exercising Faith to Accept God s Higher Plans and Purposes
P ART 4: Faith That Succeeds
10. Wearing Bling-bling Shoes
11. Beautiful in Every Way
12. Exercising Faith for Your Success
P ART 5: Faith That Fights
13. Wearing Combat Boots
14. For Spiritual Warfare
15. Exercising Faith for Spiritual Victory
P ART 6: Faith That Sings
16. Legacy
17. Our Own Hall of Faith
18. Exercising Faith for Joyful Praise
God, I m Ready to Walk in Faith Seminar DVD
About Thelma
Other Books by Author
What Is Faith?
Over a decade ago I was sitting in a room discussing with some friends the question of faith. One of them said she was sick of hearing about faith because it was so ambiguous. Another said she didn t even like the word faith because nobody can ever really define it. And the conversation continued to the tune of I don t understand the word faith.
That conversation haunted me off and on for many years because I was stunned that people felt that way. I was even more perplexed when I learned that faith is found 58 times in the King James Version s Old Testament and 280 in the New Testament. Faith must be pretty important!
I was also confused by Hebrews 11:6, which states that without faith it is impossible to please [God] ( NKJV ). And the definition of faith in Hebrews 11:1 didn t make a lot of sense to me either: Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen ( NKJV ). To help my understanding, I memorized Romans 1:16-17: I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, The just shall live by faith ( NKJV ).
With this lack of understanding and all these question marks about faith, don t you think it s about time we learn everything we can about faith so we can apply it more confidently to our lives? Through Christ we ve come this far by faith. Let s continue! Paul says in Romans 12:3, For I say through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith ( NKJV ). In this book we will explore what faith is so we can more deeply understand how we can lean on the loving arms of the Faith-giver, knowing that he is able and willing to sustain us in every situation.
As you read, please pay close attention to the areas of your life that may cause you to question your faith. Linger there until you are assured that through faith in Jesus Christ you have freedom of mind and spirit in the situation. God is the Faith-giver, but he is also the Faith-keeper and the Faith-sustainer. He is the Faithful One!
Thelma Mama T Wells
P ART 1
Faith That Trusts God with Your Family
1
Wearing Baby Shoes
I love shoes. I ve got a closet full of them. In fact, I buy clothes just to go with my shoes! Right now I ve got shoes in mind because I m thinking about our journey through life and the shoes we wear as we walk along the pathway. I m wondering what those shoes would say if shoes could talk. What stories would they tell?
Would your shoes speak of how you ve walked through the valley of the shadow of death? Would they relate how you ve trudged through graveyards of confusion? Would they tell of your travels in regions of sadness, and hurt, and grief, and trauma?
What would your shoes say?
And where will our shoes be taking you and me as we step forward into the future? What joys, what hardships, what struggles, what challenges, and what adventures are we about to walk into?
Your Desire-and Mine Too
Whatever s to come, I want to tell you that because of everything God has taught me in my many years, there s something I can say with more certainty than ever:
God, I m ready to walk in faith!
I ve been through many trials and tribulations, but here I am today ready to walk, willing to walk, and hoping to walk forever in faith. I know that s your desire as well because you ve opened this book. So I want to thank you for sharing this time with me as we strengthen our faith from the Word of God.
Because I m a visual person, I have to write things down-and so I invite you to do the same. In the pages to come, whenever you encounter questions that we ll be considering together, please take a moment to reflect on your thoughts and situation and write down your best answer in the space that s provided. I know you ll be glad you did because that s the best way to truly retain what you re learning.
Baby Shoes
Baby shoes have got to be some of the cutest things we ever see, aren t they? You may not remember when black patent leather high-tops were considered the very finest in baby shoes, but I do. I wore shoes like that! Let me tell you more about that time in my life, including some things that took me quite a while to discover.
When I was in my thirties, I went on a mission trip-my first venture outside the United States. To obtain a passport, I needed a birth certificate, and I didn t have one. So I went down to the Bureau of Vital Statistics to try to get a copy of it. When I gave them the name I grew up with, they could find no record that matched it.
It took some digging around before we finally discovered that my real last name-the one I received legally at birth-was not the same as the name I grew up with. The confusion arose out of the circumstances surrounding my birth. It took place in 1941, and my mother was an unwed teenager. (I ll tell you more about that later.) Eventually I had to take legal steps to clear up the records and become lawfully on paper the person I thought I always was.
Oh, but let me tell you something I m assured of: God always knew who I was! And he never gave me the labels that people often give to a child born out of wedlock. I love God s truth about me-and about all of us-that s found in Psalm 139:13-17. These words from David are indeed an encouragement for me and I hope for you:
You formed my inward