Nanette Cortez
Often people get into unbelief and stay there, as if they were just wasting their time, staying in one place, sitting in neutral. We all have done it, I myself have done it. I have asked God for things myself that I really desire. But then I get into unbelief and I’m stuck in neutral. I’m not moving forward in that desire, I’m not putting myself in that place to receive it. A lot of times it is caused by pressure or stress. Oftentimes, we stress about things that seem to have no foreseeable solution, or we feel the pressure that this thing HAS to happen.
I remember when my husband and I were trying to have a baby. I wanted a baby so bad I could hardly stand it. I had been trusting and believing God for years for one. We were going through IVF and as we all know it isn’t cheap. The fertility clinic wanted all the money upfront or at the time of service. Plus we had to have the money for all the meds. Neither places give the option of paying it out. We didn’t have the money to do it all upfront. I was stressing to figure out a way to have the money to do this. I was feeling the pressure because everything revolved around my cycle and my cycle was saying the time is close, we need the money now. Do you ever get that way? Allowing the circumstances to affect you and get you in unbelief in the area your believing for?
So, how do we stop this? How did I stop this? First I had to identify why I was feeling so much stress and why I was allowing it to affect me so much. If I trust God, then I trust God. So I would say the first step is you need to identify what it is that has you the most upset, frustrated, annoyed, angry or irritated. What is causing the most pressure?
Second, figure out why does this upset you. For me, the reason it upset me was that in my head if I couldn’t get the money, then I wouldn’t be able to do what I thought I needed to do to have a baby. Yours could be about your relationship with your husband. It could be your upset with your husband because you feel he’s not listening to you. Or maybe it is finances and your upset with not being able to afford a vacation because you feel tired and need a break.
Third release yourself from attachment or connection to the outcome. When you pray, give it to God and let it go. Say Lord, I can’t do this on my own, I don’t know what to do or how to make the right outcome happen. So I lift this situation up to you. I release it to you and I know you will take care of it. There are scripture promises in the Word that backs up everything. Knowing that God will keep His promise, is enough to say when I pray, I release it, I pray according to this promise in the Word, and I know God is working on it. Completely trust Him and completely trust His word. Once you have prayed that, settle it in your heart that it is done.
Fourth, give God praise for it. When the thoughts of doubt come back up in your head, pull that scripture, that promise back out and just start praising and worshipping God. You have already prayed about it, now just keep praising God because He has already worked in this situation and soon you will see the results.
Those are the steps I did. After I recognized what was causing it, why I felt the way I did, why it was upsetting me. Next, I gave it to God. I found scriptures on finances, released myself from the outcome. I said Lord, I don’t know how your going to do this. In the natural, in my eyes, it seems impossible. But the Word says nothing is impossible to God. So I give this to you, and I trust your going to take care of it. If doubt or pressure tried to come up. I would repeat Lord I trust you, then I would praise Him. The end result was, the money come in. I even had someone at a conference come up to me and hand me the money to pay for the medication. God is always faithful and God always comes through. We just have to let Him handle it and know He will do it.
