No matter where you are in your walk of faith, people, circumstances and even logic or your own shortcomings can allow doubts to creep into your heart. Beginning on Sunday, May 19, Dealing With Doubt will explore the causes and cures for our doubts.

Part 1: When You Feel Abandoned by God

“And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying… ‘My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?’” Matthew 27:46

Do Three Things

1.  Remember that God loves you and He is with you.

“I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:20

“He Himself [JC] has said, ‘I will never desert you, nor will I ever abandon you.’” Hebrews 13:5

“Let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” Hebrews 4:16

“For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I also have been fully known.” 

1 Corinthians 13:12

2.  Turn “Why God?” into “What God?”

●     God, what do You want to teach me?

“Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered.” Hebrews 5:8

●     God, what do You want to do in me?

“Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me—to keep me from exalting myself! Concerning this I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might leave me.” 2 Corinthians 12:7-8

●     God, what do You want to do through me?

“...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Hebrews 12:2

3.  When you can’t trust God’s hand, trust God’s heart.

“Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done.”  

Luke 22:42

“For all God’s promises are ‘Yes’ in him. And so through him we can say ‘Amen,’ to the glory of God.” 2 Corinthians 1:20 ISV

“Blessed is the person whose strength is in You, in whose heart are the roads to Zion! Passing through the Valley of Baca they make it a spring.” Psalm 84:5-6

* All scriptures are from the NAS Bible unless otherwise noted