All too often we want to believe God but we find ourselves in the same place as the man who said, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!” In other words, we do believe but we aren’t fully persuaded. We believe but we find ourselves wavering from time to time.

We would realize this as a very normal part of the journey into unwavering faith except for one thing. For a half century we were told that we could not admit our unbelief because it was a bad confession. What a dilemma! I’m struggling with my faith but I can’t admit it because to do so would destroy what faith I have! It is exactly this kind of pop-theology that has driven people away from faith and into deeply conflicting doctrinal delusion.

We must be comfortable with where we are in the journey of faith about any given issue. God does not condemn us when we haven’t reached the place of immovable faith. In fact, the Bible shows us that He will lead us on a journey of persuading our heart.

Abraham, the Father of Faith, spent somewhere between 25 and 37 years reaching a place where he was fully persuaded and able to lay hold to the promise God made him. We have truth Abraham didn’t have; we have the indwelling Holy Spirit to teach us and we have all of God’s Word written on the deep part of our heart; yet, we all make a journey from a believer to someone who is fully persuaded.

Join me this week for Confessions of a Persuaded Heart and I will help you discover how to make this journey free from guilt and confusion. When your heart is fully persuaded you will take hold of God’s promise, bring it unto yourself and experience the best God has for you!