I’m pretty new to Christianity. I’ve identified as Christian on and off throughout my life but only recently (this last week) have I felt Jesus presence come into my mind.
My problem is this. I’m in therapy (secular therapy) and it can be so hard. Like really. Frequently I ask god if it will all be ok, he always says yes but I lack to faith to believe him 100%
What can I do to grow my faith? I guess church and being around other Christians would help right?
Your faith is ultimately in God, right? As a Christian, your life is now all about Him. Or, it should be. Anyway, faith in God is in no small part developed through personal experience of Him and of the reality of His truth and promises in your life. But all of this experience begins with your submission, your yielding to, God's will and way. It's only as a person is living before Him in submission and humility that He works upon them, changing who they are. God will not force you to be who He wants you to be. He waits on your agreement to His changes of you, given to Him by your constant, conscious submission to Him. If you will not give Him full control of you, your experience of God and the faith that grows from such experience cannot properly develop.
Romans 6:13-18
13 Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.
14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
15 What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
17 But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,
18 and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
Romans 8:14
14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
Romans 12:1
1 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
James 4:6-10
6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
9 Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
1 Peter 5:5-6
5 ...Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,
As you walk with God in humble submission to Him, He promises to fill you up with Himself, with the Person of the Holy Spirit, whose life will transform your own. The Holy Spirit will convict you of sin, teach you the deep things of God's truth, strengthen you in times of trial and temptation, comfort you in moments of trouble and pain, and shape in you the character of Christ, the Fruit of the Spirit. He will also discipline you when you grow wayward, give you a hunger for the "meat" of God's word, the Bible, and cause you to hate sin more and more. (
John 14:26; John 16:8, 13; 1 Corinthians 2:10-16; Ephesians 3:16; Philippians 2:13; 2 Corinthians 1:3-5; Hebrews 12:5-11; Galatians 5:22-23)
It is in the experience of these things that God confirms your membership in His family and "bears witness with your spirit" that you are one of His (
Romans 8:16). As your history with God grows, and your communion with Him deepens, so, too, your faith expands and grows stronger.
Faith, though, in God's economy of things, works this way: Believe, then receive. We must trust first, and then, having trusted, we see the reality of that in which we have put our trust. One pastor put it this way:
"Faith is believing a thing is so,
When it appears it is not so,
In order for it to be so,
Because it is so."
God does not work always - or even often - in an overt, extraordinary way. We want fireworks spiritually, being sensual creatures, stimulated so powerfully as we can be, through our physical senses and emotions. But God transforms us after the manner of a branch growing out from a tree trunk: slowly, imperceptibly, but constantly; expanding over time our strength, increasing our "size" and spiritual fruitfulness. You could watch a tree branch for hours or days at a time and never see it grow. But it is. Return to the branch in six months or a year and its growth will be obvious. In any single moment, though, it can be very hard to observe change happening.
It is in part because this is so that faith is so essential to walking well with God. Unlike the physical reality in which we constantly move, that we can immediately verify, and assess, and interact with through our physical senses, the Christian life is fundamentally a spiritual thing, immaterial, touching one's mind and heart, one's spirit, offering little sensual stimulation, little or no verification by one's physical senses that God is there or that He is at work.
It is only in looking back, often, that we realize God is growing us, changing us, fulfilling His promises to us. And so, for this reason (among others) faith is absolutely vital to being a Christian.
2 Corinthians 5:7
7 for we walk by faith, not by sight.
Romans 1:16-17
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”
Hebrews 10:38
38 Now the just shall live by faith...
Hebrews 11:6
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them who diligently seek him. 
