Unpredictable Outcome: Unmasking My Faith

By Annette Ortiz Mata

When your faith is a heavy burden, it is time to ask why? Have you ever felt stuck in your faith? Have you felt God is nearby? Have you ever been told you must change before God can help you? Unpredictable Outcome will take you through a spiritual journey of legalism to freedom.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Dec 14, 2020
• ISBN: 9781665506854

Annette Ortiz Mata

Annette Ortiz Mata is a blogger and writer. In her blog she shares insights and personal stories with the hope to inspire and encourage the reader in their own journey. Her blogs can be found on www.soulofawoman.blog as well as on www.thriveglobal.com. She is also the former co-host of Table for 5 Podcast. A magazine style show which interviewed Grammy nominated artists, actors, CEOs, authors and politicians. She is a graduate of USC Gould School of Law with a Masters in the Studies of Law and Certificate of Entertainment Law. Annette resides in Los Angeles, CA. She is married and has two sons.

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Published by AuthorHouse 11/13/2020

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Innocent Faith

Young Faith

Blind Faith

My Faith Changed

Faith Revealed

Faith Tested

Freedom in Faith

Faith in Decisions

Faith Everywhere

Faith Lessons

Lesson along the way

Acknowledgments

About the Author

This book is dedicate

d to:

The Reader.

INTRODUCTION

"I love it when God creates a new narrative in your life. It is not

that what you were doing was wrong, but it was enough. It is

time to walk into the promise of the lesson that you were in.

It means you are growing, you are soaring." (Annette 2015)

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I am not a theologian, a pastor, or a biblical scholar. What I am is someone realizing their faith was diluted and polluted. So much so that when the tide came in and rolled out, what was left was a pile of debris that was unrecognizable.

Where did this come from? How much of this was I carrying? How did this happen? I realized in that moment this is why my faith was a heavy burden…it was right there in front of me...all the stuff.

Therein began my journey. Somehow I rediscovered my faith during a season of quiet and stillness and testing and trusting. What I like to call a Spiritual Reformation. I pressed into my beliefs, and it exposed my weaknesses and strengths, vulnerabilities, and influences. I came to accept that I needed God in my life, but not in the way I was told I was to need him.

In my Spiritual Re-formation, HE revealed himself differently. He showed up the way He wanted to show up! No trappings, no rules, no lists, just there. All along, I thought I needed to be a certain way, dress a certain way, speak a certain way, walk, sing, eat, simply breathe a certain way, yet God simply wanted me. Just as I am.

The revelation of it all was incredibly painful. It was raw. I needed to look at myself in the mirror with no adornments and see the real me. I saw myself clearly.

An overwhelming feeling of grief and joy swept over me. A sense of freedom swept over me. I did not need to be anything else but me because I was simply…enough. It broke me. All the indoctrination began falling off of me, and I almost felt faint from the weight of it all.

What I share with you is not my life story, but the story of how my faith grew amidst broken circumstances. How my faith