Faith Required: Living with Wild, Unrestricted Faith

Upon my reflections heading into this wonderful New Year, I stopped to considered a very notable pattern. The most deeply fulfilling and meaningful moments in my life have been acquired during the times where I've walked with the greatest faith. 

My life has always been very unconventional, starting in the music industry at the early age of seven. At the age of 19, after traveling and touring for almost a decade, I moved from my little brick-road hometown in Washington to Nashville, TN to continue to pursue my music career in Music City. Leaving my band behind in Washington, and with no new publishing deal to sustain me, I really needed to pay my rent. And in a major pivot from my right brain to my left brain, I started a web design business. That business eventually went on to sustain my finances for over a decade. You may be thinking, that is a wild change! It sure was - and a lot of faith was required.

As I stand at the top of the mountain here in the beginning of 2025, I have felt as though I've been taking in the stunning view at the top before I tip my toes downward just enough for gravity to pull me forward in a downhill decent into the next new mission and adventure that I am being called to. I've always found that it is ever so important that once you get to the top of a mountain, to stand on top of the mountain you've just climbed and take in the journey, enjoy the view, and take a rest. Inevitably, the pitter patter of vision and calling always comes knocking letting us know that it is once again time to move.

If we do not choose to move on, the only other option is to freeze and stay frozen; to deny the next mission. 

When I look back at some of the metaphorical races I’ve ran in life, it's the races where I was solely dependent on the Lord to come through for me that always end up being my favorite and most meaningful ones.  The wild ones, the extremely uncomfortable but exciting ones, the "close-my-eyes-and-take-my-hand God" ones, the “this doesn't make any sense” ones, “The only way through is with God” ones. The trust falls.

Last year, my husband had the opportunity to launch his own business. The opportunity came in the midst of financial uncertainty; it felt uncomfortable, even scary, and heaps of faith were required. Thankfully, Jesus said we can just show up with a mustard seed size of faith. (See Matthew 17:20-21) For reference, a mustard seed is only 1-2 millimeters in size! And Jesus doesn’t tell us that our faith has to be the SIZE of mountains, but that even the tiniest spec of faith (a mustard seed) can in fact MOVE mountains. To me, this also points out that faith, even as a tiny spec, is still required. We must have faith. When I was reading in Matthew over Christmas break, I came to this verse:  “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” I noticed that ASK, SEEK, and KNOCK are all action words. They require faith, movement, action.

It’s easy to have habitual human faith and what I mean by that is faith that the car will start, faith that your alarm will go off, faith that the sun will come up. What I want to live in is the faith Jesus asks us to have, a mountain moving faith, a tuned-in-to-God’s-will kind of faith. A no limits faith. “I choose to see the heavenly perspective” faith. “I am fearfully and wonderfully made” faith. “I have good plans for you'.” faith. A faith that is kindled by the  promises of the Lord.  A wild, unrestricted, faith. 

 After 2.5 years of waiting, contemplating and praying, I am stepping out in faith to set my web design business aside and focus on homemaking and writing. God saw my husband's business through and now it's gifting me the opportunity to have faith once again and step fully into where I am being called. And after 2.5 years of healing and praying, I hope to be blessed with a second baby this year. A lot of faith is being required is this new season.

Some days I only have a mustard seed to offer and other days I walk boldly, armed with the promises God has for me. But as long as my tiny mustard seed doesn’t fall from my hand, as long my hope doesn't get lost in a rushing fog of fear that’s sent from the enemy to freeze my wild faith, I can let my feet slip down off the mountain to where He's called me next.

You may have felt something in your own life come sit upon your shoulder or drift into your mind while hearing this. Is there an area where you’ve felt the mustard seed fall from your hand? Is there an opportunity standing in your doorway that has you frozen? I encourage you to ask, to seek, to knock - and with wild faith, let our Marvelous Lord lead you onward.

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11

Blessings, Hannah
Daughter of God, Wife, Mother

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