Have a little Faith

1 Corinthians 13:11 ESV

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.

1 Corinthians 13:11 ESV

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.

Do you want to be healed, and Jesus commands you to move it, do not make your bed in your infirmity, in your history. Move on

the three strand cord, you, others and God.

Debbie Downer

There is victory

Have a little faith,

change comes to the willing, growing people change, and this can change, actually they will change.

“To great sections of the church, the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the “program.” ― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

“To men and women everywhere Jesus says, ‘Come unto me, and I will give you rest.’ The rest He offers is the rest of meekness, the blessed relief which comes when we accept ourselves for what we are and cease to pretend. It will take some courage at first, but the needed grace will come as we learn that we are sharing this new and easy yoke with the strong Son of God Himself.”

“Our Lord referred to this tyranny of things when He said to His disciples, "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it.”

we will be brought one by one to the testing place, and we may never know when we are there. At that testing place there will be no dozen possible choices for us; just one and an alternative, but our whole future will be conditioned by the choice we make.”

“There may be a right opinion of God without either love or one right temper toward Him. Satan is a proof of this.”

Have a little Faith: Even if you are a babe in the faith, take courage because Jesus said that what hides things from the proud, He reveals to babes ().

I cannot answer as to why you are going through a rough time, nor do I know why God seems to be more real when we are in pain than when we are prospering, but I know that He does.

All of us are tested, and it is here that our choices seem few; and yet, some of those choices will make our future. When we don’t know what to do, we need to know God. I believe that the world around us is worse without a knowledge of God and this is the problem, many of us don't know him, not really. I also know that lasting love for God and for his word grows when we pursue him. This takes faith. My clever words will never feed your soul, only God himself can do this. My hope is that you know, despite what you may be going through, that God is real, that He is near, that He wants to be found by you, and that He is not that hard to find, just have a little faith.

Now this is eternal life – that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

“The heart cannot love what the mind does not know.” – Jen Wilkin, Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

“The heart cannot love what the mind does not know.” – Jen Wilkin

“The heart cannot love what the mind does not know.” – Jen Wilkin, Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

Now as always God reveals Himself to “babes” and hides Himself in thick darkness from the wise and the prudent. We must simplify our approach to Him.

To hoses ave found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love,

Moses “O God, show me thy glory.”

I’m not going to wake up one day with infinite biblical wisdom. Learning anything requires a degree of discipline,

In reality, I’m not going to “drift” closer to God. I’m not going to wake up one day with infinite biblical wisdom. Learning anything requires a degree of discipline, yes; but it never leaves you empty handed. Whatever you invest will be returned.

You’ve got to plow a little, sow a little, to reap a lot.

It takes time, energy, and even money into deepening my knowledge of it.

I genuinely want to fill my time with it. That knowledge overflows from your mind and then to your heart.

Being made in God’s image we have built within us the capacity to know Him.

To a people caught in the tempest of the last great conflict God says, "Be still, and know that I am God," and still He says it, as if He means to tell us that our strength and safety lie not in noise but in silence.” ― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God “Let us say it again: The Universal Presence is a fact. God is here. The whole universe is alive with His life. And He is no strange or foreign God, but the familiar Father of our Lord Jesus Christ whose love has for these thousands of years enfolded the sinful race of men. And always He is trying to get our attention, to reveal Himself to us, to communicate with us.

“Similarly, the presence of God is the central fact of Christianity.” ― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

“Similarly, the presence of God is the central fact of Christianity.” ― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God 3 likes Like

“Let us say it again: The Universal Presence is a fact. God is here. The whole universe is alive with His life. And He is no strange or foreign God, but the familiar Father of our Lord Jesus Christ whose love has for these thousands of years enfolded the sinful race of men. And always He is trying to get our attention, to reveal Himself to us, to communicate with us.

The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things.

For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself,

When the mind is engaged, the heart will follow.

We might search for the rush of a worship song, a church event, or a really powerful sermon. These are all great things- but deep, lasting love for God and his word grows most when we pursue Him, not just the feelings we get from Him.

A.W. Tozer, the Pursuit of God.

I’m not going to wake up one day with infinite biblical wisdom. Learning anything requires a degree of discipline,

You’ve got to plow a little, sow a little, to reap a lot.

It takes time, energy, and even money into deepening my knowledge of it.

I genuinely want to fill my time with it. That knowledge overflows from your mind and then to your heart.

God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts” ― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine

“To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.” ― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine

Yield and trust is the antidote against Fear and Pride.

“There is within the human heart a tough fibrous root of fallen life whose nature is to possess, always to possess. It covets `things' with a deep and fierce passion. The pronouns `my' and `mine' look innocent enough in print, but their constant and universal use is significant. They express the real nature of the old Adamic man better than a thousand volumes of theology could do. They are verbal symptoms of our deep disease. The roots of our hearts have grown down into things, and we dare not pull up one rootlet lest we die. Things have become necessary to us, a development never originally intended. God's gifts now take the place of God, and the whole course of nature is upset by the monstrous substitution.” ― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine

“There is within the human heart a tough fibrous root of fallen life whose nature is to possess, always to possess. It covets `things' with a deep and fierce passion. The pronouns `my' and `mine' look innocent enough in print, but their constant and universal use is significant. They express the real nature of the old Adamic man better than a thousand volumes of theology could do. They are verbal symptoms of our deep disease. The roots of our hearts have grown down into things, and we dare not pull up one rootlet lest we die. Things have become necessary to us, a development never originally intended. God's gifts now take the place of God, and the whole course of nature is upset by the monstrous substitution.” ― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine tags: disease, sin, spiritual-life

The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God, and the church is famishing for want of His presence.”

“You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.” ― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine

“The believing man does not claim to understand. He falls to his knees and whispers, "God." The man of earth kneels also, but not to worship. He kneels to examine, to search, to find the cause and the how of things.” ― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine

“Why do some persons 'find' God in a way that others do not?

“Now, if faith is the gaze of the heart at God, and if this gaze is but the raising of the inward eyes to meet the all-seeing eyes of God, then it follows that it is one of the easiest things possible to do. It would be like God to make the most vital thing easy and place it within the range of possibility for the weakest and poorest of us.” ― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

“It is summed up for us in the Hebrew epistle when we are instructed to run life's race "looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.“faith is not a once-done act, but a continuous gaze of the heart at the Triune God.” ― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

“Faith creates nothing; it simply reckons upon that which is already there.” ― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

“to paraphrase Thomas à Kempis, "I had rather exercise faith than know the definition thereof.”

“For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself, and unless and until the hearers find God in personal experience they are not the better for having heard the truth.” ― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

the cry of the seeker and the glad shout of the finder.

That I might know him, Paul

“We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit. "No man can come to me," said our Lord, "except the Father which hath sent me draw him," and it is by this very prevenient drawing that God takes from us every vestige of credit for the act of coming.” ― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

a growing hunger after God Himself

“To most people God is an inference, not a reality. He is a deduction from evidence which they consider adequate; but He remains personally unknown to the individual. "He must be," they say, "therefore we believe He is.” ― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

The whole Bible supports the idea. God is speaking. Not God spoke, but God is speaking. He is by His nature continuously articulate. He fills the world with His speaking Voice. One”

“My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.—”

With-out faith it is impossible

“God is a Person, and in the deep of His mighty nature He thinks, wills, enjoys, feels, loves, desires and suffers as any other person may. In making Himself known to us He stays by the familiar pattern of personality. He communicates with us through the avenues of our minds, our wills and our emotions. The continuous and unembarrassed interchange of love and thought between God and the soul of the redeemed man is the throbbing heart of New Testament”