You may think you need to learn about physics, cosmology, archeology, and more to defend your faith. Although that can be interesting and help build up your faith, you don’t need to become a master in those areas. You need to know God’s Word. In fact, the best answer to objections to God is the Word of God! So when you face objections, go to the Word of God and get equipped to respond to the most common objections.

Jesus has given us the Great Commission to share the Good News of salvation with others. Just like the farmer in Jesus’ parable, as Christians, we are to scatter the seeds of our faith to those who are far from God and need the hope of Jesus. Our job is to recognize evangelism opportunities with our family members, co-workers, neighbors, and friends. We do this by sewing the seeds of the gospel and casting out our fishing lures to draw others to Jesus. Then it’s God’s job to make the seed grow.

As Christians, we have a mission — the Great Commission — given to us by Jesus. This means we are to share our faith and explain the hope and blessed assurance of spending eternity in heaven with Him. For many of us, sharing our faith is not easy because we think it relies on us. We fear rejection, saying the wrong thing, or offending someone. These fears keep us from explaining to others why the Bible is true and salvation is found only in Jesus. But when we realize we have a helper — the Holy Spirit — we can put faith over fear. That’s when the Holy Spirit will give us the right words to speak, the wisdom and boldness to witness to others, and the courage to act.

Everyone is led by something. Some are led by sin, many are led by others, but few are led by the Spirit. As children of God, we have the Holy Spirit available to us in all aspects of our lives, but are we living a life that is Spirit led?

Some people have the idea that “If I’m not happy, nobody should be happy.” Or they will say, “You can’t celebrate your thing because I’m sad about my thing.” People look at everything through the lens of “whose feelings will it hurt.” But that’s unbiblical. As Christians, we are called to be compassionate to the hurting AND rejoice with those who rejoice. This means there will be seasons for weeping, and there will be seasons for rejoicing. But most seasons will call for both weeping and rejoicing.

Some people will tell you, “America is not a Christian nation. Look at how sinful it is.” They will say that the Founding Fathers weren’t Christian and most were deists. But is that all true? The reality is that America wouldn’t exist if Christians had stayed out of politics. In fact, everything that makes America great today is us living in the blessing of prosperity birthed in morality from God.

Would you agree that sometimes life is more challenging than you expected it to be? Or that being a Christian is harder than you thought it would be? Some of us thought that life would be easy and trouble-free if we became Christians and did what was right. But the reality is that we will have seasons where we soar, and there will be seasons where we struggle. In other words, we will have hardship, and God doesn’t promise to get us out of it, but He does promise to get us through it.

Have you ever asked yourself, can anything good come from me? Or maybe you are in a season where you are questioning yourself or your situation, and it feels like God is distant. We all have felt this way at some point in our lives, but you must know that you are not here today by mistake. God sees you, knows you, and chose you. He knows you better than you know yourself and has a plan and purpose for your life.

Often, we think resistance and struggle is an automatic sign that we're off-track from what God wants for us, but what if it's a sign that you're doing exactly what you need to be doing? What if the struggles and challenges aren't a sign to move off of the assignment but a sign that you're right on assignment, where God wants you? God is all-knowing. He knows the storm that lies ahead; what if God is calling you today to stay on track and assignment? Everything good and of value in your life will come from challenges. It's too soon to quit!

As Christians, we know that our God is a miracle-working God, and our Christian faith is a faith of miracles. Yet, we can struggle to believe God has miracles in store for our lives. The reality is that God is still doing miracles today and has big miracles in store for you. It may not be how you planned or expected, but that doesn’t change the fact that He is still a miracle-working God.