The enemy will try to make you feel inadequate. He will work to convince you that your gifts, your talents, your abilities, your performance, your parenting skills and whatever else you allow him to, is grossly inadequate. He wants you to feel like 5 loaves and 2 fish in front of a dinner party of 10,000 people; not enough. But you are blessed!

You have the ability to ensure you will never fall prey to despair. We are given the key in Psalm 27:13, “I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.” (NASB)

Real faith, faith that will actually make a difference, is not just believing that God said something. It is allowing what God said become your reality. This kind of faith requires giving God’s Word a higher place than any other “fact” in your life.

In Matthew 14 you find the story of Jesus walking on the water. It was the middle of the night and the disciple’s boat was being tossed by waves in the Sea of Galilee.

Salt can be used to add flavor to food or to preserve food. But if salt quits making food “come alive” with flavor, and no longer functions as a preservative,  there is no other use for it.  If salt stops being salty it becomes completely worthless.

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.” John 1:1-3 (NKJV)