Doubt Doesn’t Disqualify You
Read The Daily:
“Among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist…” – Matthew 11:11
Speaker: Brad Carpenter
Brad’s story was funny, honest, and maybe a little too relatable. Fighting on the school bus. Questioning everything later. Wondering if he’d said something “too much” for church. But what hit hardest was what he said about John the Baptist—this wild, bold guy who baptized Jesus and still ended up in prison asking, “Are you really the one?”
Translation: Even the greatest spiritual people have moments where they doubt everything.
And Jesus didn’t cancel John for it. He didn’t say, “Wow, you really should have more faith.” Instead, He basically said, “That guy? Still one of the greatest.”
So what if your doubts don’t disqualify you?
What if the questions you’re asking right now aren’t signs of weakness—but part of the way faith gets real? Too many of us think we’ve got to clean ourselves up before God can use us. Or that if we’re confused, disappointed, or still healing from something, we should sit quiet until we “figure it out.” But Brad reminded us that even when you’re unsure, even when you’ve messed up or feel like the least spiritual person in the room—God’s still got something to say about you and through you.
Jesus never asked for perfect faith. He asked for honest faith. The kind that says, “I don’t know what’s going on, but I’m still here.”
If that’s where you are today, good. You’re in great company. And God’s not going anywhere.
Watch Brad’s Open Mic Moment Here
Prayer for the Day
God what are you showing me? What am I going to do about it?
God help me to see one person that I can serve through a kind word, random act of kindness, or simple gift today?
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Read The New Testament In A Year
About that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?” Jesus called a little child to him and put the child among them. Then he said, “I tell you the truth, unless you turn from your sins and become like little children, you will never get into the Kingdom of Heaven. So anyone who becomes as humble as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. “And anyone who welcomes a little child like this on my behalf is welcoming me. But if you cause one of these little ones who trusts in me to fall into sin, it would be better for you to have a large millstone tied around your neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea. “What sorrow awaits the world, because it tempts people to sin. Temptations are inevitable, but what sorrow awaits the person who does the tempting. So if your hand or foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It’s better to enter eternal life with only one hand or one foot than to be thrown into eternal fire with both of your hands and feet. And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It’s better to enter eternal life with only one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell. Matthew 18:1-9
I am fully convinced, my dear brothers and sisters, that you are full of goodness. You know these things so well you can teach each other all about them. Even so, I have been bold enough to write about some of these points, knowing that all you need is this reminder. For by God’s grace, I am a special messenger from Christ Jesus to you Gentiles. I bring you the Good News so that I might present you as an acceptable offering to God, made holy by the Holy Spirit. So I have reason to be enthusiastic about all Christ Jesus has done through me in my service to God. Yet I dare not boast about anything except what Christ has done through me, bringing the Gentiles to God by my message and by the way I worked among them. They were convinced by the power of miraculous signs and wonders and by the power of God’s Spirit. In this way, I have fully presented the Good News of Christ from Jerusalem all the way to Illyricum. My ambition has always been to preach the Good News where the name of Christ has never been heard, rather than where a church has already been started by someone else. I have been following the plan spoken of in the Scriptures, where it says. Romans 15:14-21