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Fresh Faith Review
We have about 4 more weeks in our series entitled “Fresh Faith”
We have been taking the summer to encourage our faith in Christ.
To build up our faith
To know why we should have faith
And to know where that faith should be founded.
Why?
Because we have a real enemy.
One who robs, kills and destroys.
But the only way that he can do that is if he can kill our faith in God.
He wants to get us to a place where we are hopeless
He wants to get us to a place where we are distracted - because situations and things look bigger and better than our God.
But if we build up our faith, he doesn’t stand a chance.
We said that our faith is in a God who never turns his back on us
Our faith is in the God who can restore all things.
He is the God who can make us forget all of our troubles
And the God who will make us fruitful in the very place where we are suffering.
WE said that God would help us build our faith if:
We took on the posture of continued students - always learning who he is, what he has promised (going to talk about that today) and believe in those promises
WE allow him to cut into our lives and remove that which is bad to grow and establish that which is powerful and strong
We take on His Kingdom mentallity
Part of that is making his kingdom first in our lives
That we truly mean it when we call him our Lord and savior and King
We have to come to a place where we no longer allow the time restraints that we live under to discourage our faith in a God who has no Time Restraints
We said that we cannot allow our hurts and doubts and discouragements to change our faith in who God is or how He does what He does
His Promises are YES and AMEN
God has a plan - He will always seek the higher praise
He will always want us to have a greater testimony
And he has a plan for the next generation - Believing that will make us a church full of children and the broken
We said last week that we cannot our experiences to get a head of our faith
That we need to wait on the truth - God is greater than our sin and brokenness
That we need to wait for the Good News - Salvation - the process of change and reconciliation
And that we wait on his grace.
He may not be finished with us yet, but he will never give up on us.
And if you haven’t listened to that message yet, it’s what made the difference between how Peter and Judas end their lives.
Turn with me today over to
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Romans 4:3
I want to speak to you a message this morning entitled, “Walk it Off”
We tell people who are hurt to shrug it off, or play it off, or play through it or walk it off
We tell people who are drunk to go sleep it off
We tell people who have eaten a lot or bothered by something to go work it off
I want you to know that we can defeat satan and his attacks on our faith, by doing the same - Walking it off.
As you know the person who Pastor Cymbala hightlights in chapter 10 of the book is Abraham.
I’m going to do the same today.
But I’m not going to be hitting the same things that Pastor Jim did.
I don’t want to speak his chapter, I want to speak something of God’s word that will speak to this chapter in your life.
God says to Abraham, I’m calling you to be the father of a great nation.
Your offspring will be as numerous as the grains of sand on the seashore.
And as I recall, he gives him 8 promises there.
And then comes the faith part - Abraham do you believe this?
Then walk it off.
We have been looking this summer at who this God is
Is this the God we believe in?
Is this the God we will trust in?
Is His word something that we believe to be truth - in fact, the ultimate truth
Then I’m going to tell you, start stepping.
I have a fitbit watch.
It has, based on my age, weight and goals, a certain amount of steps that it wants me to take each day.
If I’m sitting and not moving around for a while, I’ll get a little vibration on my wrist and a message that says you still need so many more steps this hour.
It’s keeping me focused and to the task
That’s what I’m praying this message does for all of us today.
Just keeps us focused on faith and the task of walking in it.
Daniel and many of the Old Testament saints had to walk through the promises of God.
Joshua has to walk off the promises of God
Jesus tells us that through the promise of the Holy Spirit, we get to walk in the promises of God.
Are you doing that today?
Are you there today?
Walk It Off = Living Off the Promises of God
Abraham was offered a rich inheritance - but the only way to receive it was to take God at His Word and start walking.
God says leave this place and I will show you where to go
He had no map, he had no calendar, God would tell him when to stop
I want to say today, that there aren’t many of us who would do that.
And then I want to say that there are just as many of us, who are wondering why the promises of God haven’t come.
You see they go hand in hand.
Is it easy?
No way.
It’s the litmus of how much you really believe God’s word and how much you trust him.
I think a great example of this is over in
Most of us would have wanted Jesus to come to our house
It’s not enough to just hear him, we need to see him.
But as we have been talking about, living off of the promise is taking him at his word.
Living off of the promises of God
It Makes God our Source
I’m sure that Abraham packed stuff for the journey.
He would have been a fool not to
But he didnt’ know how long the journey would last
He did not know what way he would be headed
He wouldn’t even know when he had arrived.
That was all part of the promise - You start walking.
I’ll be with you.
I’ll lead you.
I’ll provide for you.
And I’ll tell you when you are there.
That’s alot to try and prepare for.
There had to be a recognition in Abrahams heart that God was going to provide
That what he provided would be sufficient
That where and when he provided would be correct.
That God was his source.
I’m sure that Abraham had lean times
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