Exercises

Listen to the Holy Spirit and your intuition and if you do sense danger or obstacles or warnings, don't ignore them! Open your eyes! Then evaluate whether or not it was a valid alert from God, the environment or yourself. Or if it came from an outside source like fear, doubt or the enemy. 

Courageous exercises designed to teach you how to let go of fear and start trusting God.

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” - Hebrews 11:1

Faith Exercise #1

Walking with your eyes closed, literally.

Instructions-

1. Find a place where you feel comfortable doing this. Safety first
2. Close your eyes.
3. Take a minute to talk to God and ask Him to guide you and help you sense where you are going and any dangers that you need to be aware of.
4. Walk
5. Just Go!
6. Walk as long as you can with your eyes closed.
7. Start slow. Take your time. Put your hands out if you like, balance, breathe, feel the world around you.
8. Open your eyes when you need to.

This is an exercise designed to grow your faith. You may start slowly, in a field, at a park, on a sidewalk headed to work… any of these settings will do. 

The questions that you have to ask yourself are:

1.    What’s the worst that could happen?
2.    Do I trust God to make me open my eyes when I need to?
3.    If I fall, am I in a setting where I can get back up?
4.    If I get a bump or a bruise, is it worth learning how to trust more deeply?

Please do NOT do this exercise in a setting where there is immediate potential for large harm or injury… i.e. crossing the street, coming down a hill or mountain, driving your car. This exercise is to build faith, not hurt you or others. Please practice is responsibly.

When you do practice this faith growing exercise appropriately, it’s amazing at the revelation you will start to receive from letting go and trusting Him. Do it again and again so that each time you succeed you can go a little further, a little faster and a little braver each time. 

Listen to the Holy Spirit and your intuition and if you do sense danger or obstacles or warnings, don’t ignore them! Open your eyes! Then evaluate whether or not it was a valid alert from God, the environment or yourself. Or if it came from an outside source like fear, doubt or the enemy. 

Catalog in your mind, in a notebook or on your phone what you discover. Are you super brave? Super skittish? Super in tune with your surroundings? Does God talk to you loudly, or does He whisper? Or are you having a hard time hearing anything at all? Are you able to focus? Does your mind race or are you busy thinking about cooking dinner tonight?

When you do open your eyes… is it with joy and gratitude? Or with relief that the exercise is over? Journal these things if you have time, but no matter what take the time to reflect on your experience.

Don’t give up!

If you find this practice hard or scary, that’s ok! You are taking a very important and necessary physical sense away that most everyone is very reliant on and replacing it with trust in God that can be super mysterious and hard to understand at times. 

Don’t give up!

Try repeatedly for the rest of your life. This is a forever faith exercise and a forever skill that you can use and apply at anytime you ever need to from here on out. It’s great to utilize when you start to find your faith wavering a bit and need to remind yourself that God’s got you.

I started doing this exercise a few years ago because I needed to learn to let go absolutely and just trust that God wouldn’t let me get hurt, and that if I did fall or bump into anything that my injury would be minor and I would heal and that every time I chose to search for safety in God alone, that He would indeed teach me new things. 

This exercise is relevant to our spiritual journey and family restorations because without letting go absolutely and letting God guide us and protect us and our loved ones, we end up trying to run the show and that’s where we can conflict with what God needs to do for us that we can’t do for ourselves. Like set the stage for our healing, wholeness and reunion. 

We have to trust that our Heavenly Father loves our families way more than we do.  By learning how to trust Him, we can faithfully let go of the things that we think we need to do, say or act on. Knowing this absolute truth by experiencing His protection and guidance while we walk blindly through the park or down the street grows every time we take the risk and close our eyes and move our feet.