Step-By-Step Faith
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Second, after reading many self-help books, I realized that while they highlight the challenges Christians face today, they often fall short of providing specific examples to help navigate the steps in our faith walks with Christ. I will provide practical and duplicable experiences of biblical characters to guide your simple, small steps to growing your faith in Christ. God first began speaking to me about how my life experiences, including my faith struggles, would benefit others who share similar challenges. As I mentioned earlier, I began writing this book about eleven years ago as I was facing the most traumatic, life-changing experience. I had lost my beloved brother due to a murder-suicide, and my world instantly collapsed. I felt frozen in time, as did my thoughts and emotions. I felt paralyzed by the excruciating pain in my heart and the tormenting thoughts as I tried to process this nightmare. For context, my brother is three years older than me and has always been the family rock, but he was more like a father figure to me. He was truly the male version of me. The Lord began encouraging me to journal my thoughts, feelings, progress, setbacks, and disappointments about nine months after my brother’s death. I would like to make note that I was saved at the age of seven and grew up enjoying time with my church family. However, I found myself struggling to turn to God in the darkest time of my life. I turned to so many worldly things to mask the pain, but it only delayed my healing and drove me into a darker place. To be somewhat organized as I journaled, I decided to revisit my spiritual foundation, as it was clearly broken. The Bible’s concordance has a long list of topics to guide you to the scriptures that will help with your specific situation. I provide a list of the topics that I started with at the end of the book to give you an idea of how I approached my storm. Faith is exercised according to His Word, prayer, and praise. When you find yourself out of balance with these three actionable fundamentals, it paralyzes the Holy Spirit, and He is unable to help you through the storm.
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Faith is exercised according to God’s Word, prayer, and praise. When we find ourselves out of balance with these three actionable fundamentals, we cut ourselves off from the Holy Spirit’s power to help us through our storms. In an inspirational guide, Ashlyn Blake offers a step-by-step approach to building or restoring faith while navigating through the increasing challenges and temptations in daily life. Through her testimony, Blake reveals how she, a Christian since childhood, struggled to maintain her faith during the greatest difficulties in life. Through her guidance that includes biblical examples of characters who regained their faith walk with Christ, believers will better understand faith in general, learn where faith begins, grow faith in God, build a strong bond with Him, take faith steps during storms, understand the way God tests our faith, submit thoughts to the authority of Jesus, and embrace God’s promise, purpose, and power, and much more. Step-by-Step Faith weaves personal testimony with biblical inspiration to provide real-life insights that believers can apply daily to build and restore an unwavering faith in God.
About the Author
Ashlyn Blake is a lifelong Christian who has experienced life-altering events that challenged her faith. She can identify with those who struggle to rebuild their faith walk with Christ, and those who are new to the Christian faith who do not know where to begin their walk and need guidance. Step-by-Step Faith is her first book.