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Having Faith in the God Who...
Today we close out a 13 week series entitled “Fresh Faith
A series which I hope has encouraged you to a greater faith in your spiritual life
A series that hopefully expanded your view of What God can do, and gave you a greater faith to see Him do those things in your life.
If you’ve been abused and knocked around in life, you need to know the God who can restore all things.
The God who can go back and correct those things that got out of whack so long ago and cancel their effects today and even tomorrow
If you have some heavy stuff on your mind.
You are having trouble forgiving someone or even yourself, you need to know the God who is able to make us forget all of our troubles.
If life has dealt you a bad hand.
Maybe it’s the price of sin, maybe it’s just living in a broken world, you need to know the God who can make you fruitful in the midst of your sufferings.
Maybe the enemy has told you that you will never be anything - God says that you are fruitful and an overcomer.
This type of faith will change the way that we see God and trust Him
It will make a greater place for him in our lives - Every area
It will cause us to be patient in God’s moving.
Giving him the time that He requires to see things perfected in our lives (not just done, but perfected)
To wait on His truth
To wait on the power and process of his grace and work of salvation in our lives
It will enable us to trust him even in the midst of the disturbances and disappointments of our lives.
It will cause us to praise him and worship him more
It will created a greater testimony in our life.
Our Story of What God has done.
We will praise him and testify about him as our source of life
We will walk in a heightened level of faith, experiencing his love for us with a new understanding of what it means to be loved by our heavenly father.
It will keep us going until we get to the place that he wants us to be - no more throwing in the towel
No more wearing out or allowing discouragement to impede us in our spiritual walk
It will give us the ability to trust God in the deep internal stuff of life, even when we don’t know what that might be
Loving him from a new heart - a fleshly and pliable heart in his hands
serving him from a renewed spirit
and following him with a spirit that is willing to go the distance.
And then last week, we looked at how he gives us a living hope
Which creates a genuine faith
Which enables us to trust him for a full salvation.
So we started the series with the plan and the attacks of the enemy
Those things that threaten our faith
Those things that bring destruction and depravity into our lives
And we ended with the plan of God
To bring us to a place, by faith, of a changed, fruitful and energized life.
But here is the deal -
The Book is Finished!
Or is it?
I can tell you that mine is not.
Now if you just read it because we recommended it - it’s finished
If you didn’t even bother reading it - It didn’t interest you, it wasn’t your type of book, You put it away for later, because the new book in your favorite series came out
It’s finished.
But if you heart was touched, like mine was, during these 13 weeks
If a dead faith, or a new faith has arisen in your heart
If something that was said during one of the messages and you were one of the many that stood up for prayer each service
We still have a ways to go.
God is building up a new faith in each of us.
Hebrews
You see our faith is important.
In fact, we see here it is so important that our faith and confidence in God is what makes us part of his house or his church
It’s what makes us the people or children of God
The people of God should be marked by a living, confident and timeless faith.
(all things we have talked about in these 13 weeks.
Another lesson for us that we cannot forget is that the people did not enter into his promise for them because of their lack of faith in him
I believe that this is still true of people today.
They don’t achieve those things that God has for them because they do not believe that it can happen.
So today, if you hear his voice.
If He has been speaking to you through this book
If these 13 Sundays have been speaking to you
Don’t harden your heart
Don’t say, I don’t believe that.
don’t say I’ll do it later
Don’t say I don’t understand that.
Let God do his work in your life.
Remember the righteous live by faith.
So how do we Grow our Faith?
How do we get there?
How do we respond to the things that God has spoken over these last few weeks?
How to Grow Your Faith! - Read It!
Today if you will hear his voice
Can God speak to us today - Sure
But I want you to know that anything that God says to you from a voice today is going to totally back up and confirm this (BIBLE)
People say - I can’t hear him, God doesn’t speak to me
He will if you will read this (Bible)
So many people discouraged today - This is your Hope
So many people lost today - This is your truth, your map
So many people fumbling and stumbling through life - This is all you need.
It’s that easy?
YES - if you will read it and follow it.
Yesterday - following GPS and doing my own thing - lost 15 minutes of time and drove in circles
You have to follow it.
You have to be okay with where it’s leading.
You have to be obedient to it when you aren’t.
If you don’t yet understand how important this book is then you need to write these scriptures down
Matthew
These are just a few.
This is God’s Word speaking about itself.
Are you listening?
You need to read God’s Word to your Spirit
Like a child who gets read to every night at bed time
Their imagination comes alive
They are seeing things bigger than their world
The only difference is that for the Spirit, this imagination becomes truth as they hear God’s Word
You need to read God’s Word to your faith
You need to challenge your faith - every day in the classroom challenging kids to think
You need to give your faith something to stimulate it.
When you read it, don’t read it to just read it
When you come to service, don’t just listen to hear it
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