Pip: If you have ever stood at the base of a mountain — metaphorical or otherwise — and wondered whether you packed enough faith for the climb, Victory Walk has thoughts.
Mara: Claudette Glaude-Scott’s posts cover two territories today: what faith actually is and where it comes from, and how to hold onto confidence when life gets genuinely hard. Let’s start with the foundation — faith itself.
Faith and trust
Pip: The question this post is really asking is deceptively simple: what is faith, and where does it come from? Not as theology trivia, but as something you either have or you don’t — and what to do if you feel like you don’t have enough.
Mara: Romans 10:17 sets the entry point, and then the post lands this from Saint Augustine: “Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”
Pip: That’s the whole loop, right there. The believing comes first, the seeing follows — which is the opposite of how most of us prefer to operate.
Mara: Faith to Believe builds that out with Matthew 17:20, where even mustard-seed-sized faith is described as enough to move mountains — provided it’s rooted in trust in God’s power rather than human persuasion. The post closes on 1 John 5:4: persistent faith in Christ is the victory that overcomes the world.
Pip: So the pivot from doubt to confidence isn’t a personality upgrade — it’s a direction change.
Mara: That’s exactly where the next post picks up.
Confidence through hardship
Pip: Knowing faith matters and actually holding onto it when life is difficult are two very different things. Living with Confidence takes that gap seriously — the tension between what your head knows and what your heart is screaming.
Mara: The post names that internal battle directly: “Our heads say, ‘Let it go.’ Our hearts say, ‘Do you know what they have done to me?'” And then it asks the practical question — so what do we actually do?
Pip: Which is the question nobody wants to answer with “prayer and Bible study” — and yet here we are.
Mara: The post earns it, though. It anchors the answer in Paul’s experience, not just his advice. The key verse is Philippians 4:13 AMP: “I can do all things [which He has called me to do] through Him who strengthens and empowers me [to fulfill His purpose — I am self-sufficient in Christ’s sufficiency; I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him who infuses me with inner strength and confident peace.]”
Pip: That’s not a bumper sticker version of that verse. That’s the full weight of it.
Mara: Right — and the post is careful to show what Paul means by “all things.” Verse 12 clarifies: he’s talking about knowing how to live humbly in difficult times and how to live in abundance. Every circumstance, learned. Not given — learned.
Pip: There’s something almost relieving about that. Confidence isn’t a trait you either have or you don’t. It’s something Paul says he acquired through going through it.
Mara: The post makes that personal: “I know from experience that life can be difficult. But difficulty lasts for a season.” The framing is that hardship isn’t punishment — it’s preparation. God uses it to shape and polish, to get someone ready for what comes next.
Pip: Season, not sentence.
Mara: And the closing thought lands it plainly: “God provides strength during the most difficult periods of our life.” Not after. During.
Pip: Faith that precedes the evidence, confidence that survives the difficulty — these posts are making the same argument from two angles.
Mara: The walk doesn’t start when the path gets easier. That’s the throughline. More to come.
