Thriving In Every Season Of Life With God – Faith
Faith – belief and trust in and loyalty to God, belief in the traditional doctrines of a religion, something that is believed especially with strong conviction, complete trust.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. – Voltaire
Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase. – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible. – Corrie ten Boom
We all were created in the image of God and he had faith in his creation of Adam and Eve when he placed them in the Garden of Eden. They disobeyed God but he continued to create even more of us. Even when he destroyed the earth by floodwaters, he spared Noah’s family and two of every kind of animal and when the floodwaters abated, he stated for us all to multiply and replenish the earth. Now you realize that if this had happened to most if not all of us, we would have been so distraught and disappointed in what we created we would have come up with another idea and never created human beings again. Gratefully we are not God and he continued to have faith in us and desired so much to have a relationship with us that he tried again and again. He continues to do that daily because his mercy for us is unending. God is still expecting all of us to become the image of his son Jesus. Christian Books – Faith – Thriving In Every Season Of Life With God. http://www.miraclebook.net
We all need to strive to have an abundance of faith. We need to not just give up so easily and run to what we believe is the next best thing. Sure, we can do this if we have a change of heart regarding a food choice but that is not the same as the church, work, marriage, etc. Some of us are just too quick to change our church because we do not like or agree with the pastor anymore or a member of the church has hurt us in some way. Some people change jobs like you would change underwear. There is no stability anymore. I have the pleasure of knowing a banker who has worked for the same bank for 31 years. Remarkable! That is unheard of nowadays. Marriages nowadays are like going to an ice cream parlor and choosing several different flavors and then adding toppings. Christian Books – Faith – Thriving In Every Season Of Life With God.
God is faithful and we should be the same in our daily lives. If God places a thought or idea in our minds, we should have faith to believe that he will see it through. The bible says, “Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.” – Philippians 1:6. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. – Jeremiah 29:11.
The bible has so much to say about faith. Look at these verses:
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” – Hebrews 11:1
“But without faith, it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” – Hebrews 11:6
“For we walk by faith, not by sight.” – 2 Corinthians 5:7
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” – Ephesians 2:8-9
There are numerous stories of people in the bible that had faith, but this is one example of a woman who had great faith. “And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, and had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, when she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment. For she said If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, who touched my clothes? And his disciples said unto him, thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing. But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth. And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace and be whole of thy plague. – Mark 5:25-34. Now the first thing that makes this passage in the bible so outstanding is that this woman was dealing with this health issue for twelve years. Most of us would have given up and had no faith or hope anymore. She spent all the money she had and to no avail. However, she pressed on in faith believing that if she could touch Jesus, she would be made whole. Thriving In Every Season Of Life With God – Faith
Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials. – Smith Wigglesworth
Do you have any faith? If you do how strong is it? Miracles happen for those who have faith and believe. Christian Books – Faith – Thriving In Every Season Of Life With God.
