A prayer for when you struggle with doubt by Jordan Soak.

If you can, said Jesus, everything is possible for one who believes.

Immediately the boy's father exclaimed, I do believe. Help me overcome my unbelief.

Mark 9, 23 through 25. Help me overcome my unbelief.

Mark 9, 23 through 24.

From the time I was a young girl, my faith was something I took seriously.

I loved learning about this incredible God of the Bible that loved me in my sin, so much so that he sent his own son to take my place in death.

I loved reading that he is alive and that he works everything for my good and his glory.

And I loved the realization that the pages of scripture I read were God breathed and alive,

applicable to my day-to-day life. I believed all of it, or so I thought.

Then freshman year of college happened, and along with the regular ups and downs that come with freshman year

it was the most stressful year my family had ever experienced.

To make matters worse, I felt responsible for everyone in the situation.

Looking back, it's obvious that it wasn't my responsibility to make sure everyone smiled through such a season.

Emotion should have been expected. But in my anxious 18 year old

mind if someone in my family wasn't cheerful I was to blame. But when the

blame on myself became too much I began putting it on someone else.

The only person that I could think was responsible?

God Himself.

Tough seasons reveal what we really believe, and my tough season was revealing that everything I thought to find me wasn't real to me at all.

I didn't know what to do about it. Every day was more hopeless than the day before.

I was losing my faith and in doing so, my identity. So what do you do when our head and our heart

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