Challenge #116 - Job 13:15

A blessed Sunday to you! Welcome to Stampin' Sisters in Christ, where our challenges are inspired by scripture. We pray you will be blessed by your fellowship with us, as we are blessed by yours!

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Scripture: Job 13:15 "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.”

He will not leave you nor forsake you. I have had times of overwhelming presence and other times it seems like He is not there. Will I still walk in the truth of His Word? Will I still believe even if I do not feel Him? His presence is like training wheels…as long as I feel His presence I believe He is and that He cares. But what do I do when the training wheels come off? Is He any less real, any less present, any less loving? No…His word which He has given us is a solid foundation that helps us not to fall prey to seducing spirits. Oswald Chambers says it better than I ever could:

• We have the idea that God rewards us for our faith, it may be so in the initial stages; but we do not earn anything by faith, faith brings us into right relationship with God and gives God His opportunity. God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you into contact with Himself. God wants you to understand that it is a life of faith, not a life of sentimental enjoyment of His blessings. Your earlier life of faith was narrow and intense, settled around a little sun-spot of experience that had as much of sense as of faith in it, full of light and sweetness; then God withdrew His conscious blessings in order to teach you to walk by faith. You are worth far more to Him now than you were in your days of conscious delight and thrilling testimony. Faith by its very nature must be tried, and the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but that God’s character has to be cleared in our own minds. Faith in its actual working out has to go through spells of unsyllabled isolation. Never confound the trial of faith with the ordinary discipline of life; much that we call the trial of faith is the inevitable result of being alive. Faith in the Bible is faith in God against everything that contradicts Him – I will remain true to God’s character whatever He may do. “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him” – this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible. –Oswald Chambers

Challenge:  Make a card of praise using music, stamp, or design paper, or just the word "praise."

To inspire you, here are some creations by our Design Team!

Chris Olsen – Twinkles Glow with Stamps

 Linda Lucas: Lovely Linda's Craft Central

MariLynn DeGroot: Mississippi McGyver

 Miesje Flach – Craft Room with a View

Peggysue Turner - Roses by my Window

 Rebekka Reed – Diamond in the Rough

Traci Major – Major Moments

We can't wait to see all of YOUR creations! You may enter as many times as you'd like! **PLEASE NO BACKLINKING (any cards linked here that are dated before our post goes live are subject to being removed by us--sorry!  Just gotta be fair)... and **Please link us to your actual card/project post(s), not just to your blog or gallery, by 11:59 pm PDT (GMT -8) on Saturday, November 26th. The prize winner will be randomly drawn and announced on Tuesday, Nov. 29th.  Plus, three of you will be awarded the Stampin' Sisters in Christ Shining Star blinkie!

**If you are entering more than one card for this challenge, please leave a link for each card/project.

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