The longer I’ve lived, the more I’ve understood – it’s oftentimes easier to believe for someone else than it is to believe for you.
You really don’t have to get your faith up when you’re believing for someone else. If it doesn’t happen, it wasn’t you anyway.
However, when it’s you; when you need a miracle, that takes a different kind of believing. Faith is risky. It takes expectation, and no one wants to get let down.
I think back to when my dad got cancer, or when I was dealing the seizures. I remember thinking: “It’s time to apply when I’ve been taught, and what I’ve believed for other people.”
There is great power in corporate faith. When Jesus healed the paralytic, the Bible says “when He saw THEIR faith.”
But your faith is truly put to the rest when it’s you you’re believing for.