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How to hold onto our faith when we feel overwhelmed by life’s trials
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Charlotte Phillips2025-09-26T05:02:00
Writer Charlotte Phillips shares how faith can sustain us through life’s hardest seasons. Drawing on scripture and her own journey, she offers hope in the midst of trials.
If it’s not one thing then it’s another, when it rains it pours; I don’t know about you but sometimes there are seasons of life where things seem to be just getting worse, instead of better. So, when life’s trials threaten to overwhelm us - how do we hold onto our faith?
The Bible defines faith as ‘the substance of things hoped for; the evidence of things not seen.’ When we are surrounded by bad news, when the diagnosis is worse than we had expected, when we’re not sure we have the strength to continue, it would be easy to lose heart.
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