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“I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!”
Mark 9:24
We tend to think doubt and faith are enemies — that a real believer never wavers. But scripture is full of people who questioned out loud: Job, David, John the Baptist, Thomas. God did not strike them down for asking. He drew closer.
In Mark, a desperate father brings his son to Jesus and blurts out one of the most honest prayers in the Bible: I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief. Faith and doubt, in the same breath. And Jesus answers that prayer anyway.
So if your faith feels more like a question than a certainty today, you are in good company. Bring the doubt with you. You don’t have to resolve it before you come — you can hand it to the One who meets you in the middle of it.
A prayer
Jesus, I believe — and I also have questions I don’t know how to hold. Meet me in the honest middle. Help my unbelief, and hold my faith when it feels thin. Amen.
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