I planned to write my first blog post about the application process you go through to get a Habitat home. Because of the service my pastor had this morning, I want to start on a different subject first.


Faith. Faith is a word used by many people to tell what they believe. Being of Christian faith to most people means that they believe in God, and that his son Jesus died on the cross so God would forgive our sins. Other people have faith that there is no God. That is not what I believe, but to each his own.


Now, you may think, “What does this have to do with getting a Habitat home?” I promise I have a point! Just keep reading ;)


Back to Jesus dying on the cross. How much faith do you think He had to have in our Father to be able to come to terms with the fact He was going to die just so everyone else could live in sin? And His followers who got beaten, put in prison, or died? They had to have a lot of faith in this man to be okay with that.


If you prayed to God that you could pay your bills, and He didn’t answer, would it make you doubt Him? I have a special needs child and have prayed so many times that God touch him and heal him. It happens every day all over the world. Surely if God thinks I am on the right path, He would bless my son with this healing! But the healing hasn’t come. You might think that this would make me think less of my God, but it doesn’t. God wants to see endurance so I just pray for it every day, and if he is never healed, that’s ok because I still have faith that God will use it instead of healing it.


Building a Habitat home is going to take faith. Lots of it. Working 250-500 hours is a lot of time to put on top of the things such as work, school, and children that I already have going on. But I know I can do it because God is walking with me through this journey. He is helping me every day work through all my battles. He wants me to endure through this process! Earning the opportunity to purchase a house is such a blessing! I will always have somewhere to call home. The thing about earning a home that makes me the most happy is that I won’t have to worry about moving my children around from school to school every time we rent a new place, and I will have something to give them when I pass away.


So have faith! If you have enough of it, you can endure anything.