When History Builds Faith: Stepping Where Logic Can’t Walk

In my 30 years of walking with The Lord, I have learned that fear doesn’t flee because we wait.

Our mind will always try to keep us in the “safe zone", because the brain’s job is survival.

It wants us to stay where it’s familiar, predictable, controlled, so it can protect us.

But the truth is that same protection can become a prison.

Comfort can quietly become captivity, and safety, when driven by fear, can keep us from the very life God is calling us into.

Faith will always invite you beyond what feels secure, growth lives outside the lines of what’s familiar.

Our destiny isn't found in the shallow end, it's found on the water.

I can honestly and confidently say, thay our life has been a walking-on-water, living-by-faith, not-by-sight kind of journey.

Not just once, not just in one season, but constantly, beginning with our move from Italy to Canada with zero security, but His Word.

Our life is marked by one radical, God-led decision after another.

Steps that didn’t make sense to the natural mind, choices that defied logic, moments where everything in the natural said “stay safe”

but Holy Spirit whispered, “trust Me and step.”

And even right now, in this very moment,

we are standing in another one of those faith-steps.

Another call to walk where only trust can carry you.

And why do we keep saying yes?

Because we have history with Him.

Deep, miracle-marked, tear-soaked history.

We have seen His hand too many times,

heard His whisper in too many desperate nights, watched Him show up in too many impossibilities to ever doubt His faithfulness now.

We know Him.

Not just the idea of Him, but His nature, His character, His heart, His Father-faithfulness, His covenant loyalty.

When you truly know Him, trust isn’t a struggle, it becomes a reflex of relationship.

We have seen Him do it before.

We will see Him do it again.

Because this God, the One who parts seas, provides rams in thickets, and turns gallows into freedom, is still the same today.

Sometimes the Holy Spirit doesn’t calm the storm first, He calls you to step in while it’s still raging.

Fear bows when we move, when our feet say “yes” to what our mind is still trembling about.

W. Clement Stone said, “Waiting will not overcome fear, action will.”

And I’ll add faith-filled action breaks the paralysis of fear.

Think of Peter stepping out of the boat.

The storm didn’t calm first.

The waves didn’t shrink.

His confidence didn’t magically appear.

He stepped while it was still scary, and in that trembling obedience, the supernatural broke through the natural.

Sometimes God doesn’t part the waters before we move.

He parts them as we walk.

You don't have to feel brave to be obedient.

You just have to trust Him, and move with Him, and Heaven meets you in motion.

Friends, if you're stuck, paralyzed by fear of the unknown, hear me:

The same God who opened the Red Sea,

the same God who provided a substitute for Isaac, the same God who overturned Haman’s evil plan, and always at the 11th hour, Is The same God who will do it for you.

So step out of the boat.

Lay down what you’ve been clinging to.

Sacrifice the thing you’ve depended on more than Him, because God has already prepared the answer.

Your obedience is the key that unlocks what has always been waiting. 🕊️🔥

Matthew 14:29

"Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus."

2 Corinthians 5:7

"For we walk by faith, not by sight."

Hebrews 11:8

"By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go to a place he would later receive as an inheritance, even though he did not know where he was going."

Psalm 9:10

"Those who know Your name trust in You, for You, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek You.

Genesis 22:14

"So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, 'On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.’"

Joshua 3:13

"As soon as the priests who carry the ark of the Lord... set foot in the Jordan, its waters flowing downstream will be cut off and stand up in a heap."

2 Timothy 2:13

"If we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself."

Rosangela Atte

The Rising Of The Esthers ✨