you're turning I'll ask a question what there's a verse in Hebrews 11 it says without blank it's impossible to please God so what what's the word say it with me without faith it's impossible to

with me but the story of the paralytic coming to jesus and being lowered into the home and it said there that Jesus seeing their faith said to the man you know your sins are forgiven and that kind of and I think Raj may have

were seafaring men who had spent a lot of time on the water um when they were legitimately in danger and they felt they were perishing and jesus got up and he said where's your faith and i was thinking about this i was actually talking with my girls about it

spoken to me a lot of times recently but it's just it keeps coming to me which is not to reduce my faith to rules to a set of rules um there's um one thing that I've seen is that Satan's always seeking to attempt at

i wanted to point it out ii corinthians 5 7 very simply we walk by faith not by sight so how will i be aware of the lord's transforming me how will i be aware of him doing something new it

what I wanted to share this morning is from Luke 18 there is a there's a point where Jesus he makes a statement he says he basically says when I return will I find faith on the earth he says when the Son of Man returns will he find faith on

what keeps us from having faith you know we know it's so important to believe in the lord jesus what keeps us from having faith something that the lord's been reminding me of in this last week and i want to mention it because there can be a lot of

hopes, too, that Lord, you'll fulfill it. Do you believe that? I hope so. I hope so. Um let's ask the Lord to give us faith. Dear Father, give us this faith, Lord. Faith to grab a hold of the fullness of your purpose for us in Jesus Christ.

most important thing is that we need to be faithful with what we're given if we're on a 50 Cent Mission be faithful to spend the 50 cents doing what God asks and use the grace he's given us in the trial that we are presented with we

so what I had wanted to share today was out of the life of Joshua last week Bobby mentioned Hebrews 6 12 which says be imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises and it got me thinking about Joshua had been

tempted to the spies and we have to be careful that we don't start to expect that God's going to do something spectacular and we start to despise and overlook being faithful in the little mundane and every single day tasks that

consider it all joy my brethren when you encounter various trials knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance james 1 verses 2 through 3. i wanted to share briefly about this verse

desire is that we would be holy and blameless and Beyond reproach before him and that the pathway to that goal is that we continue in our faith firmly established and steadfast and that we're not moved away from hope so I see it as

Samaritan then Jesus answered and said were not 10 cleansed but the nine where are they was no one found who returned to give glory to God except this Foreigner and he said to him stand up and go for Faith for your faith has made

in every circumstance I don't just stand around waiting for him to fight the battle because he said that he would but I begin by praising him and essentially I declare the victory before I ever see it and um there's immense faith I see

Um and I see that I need to grow in faith. I need to grow in faith specifically that God's power is perfected in my weakness rather than after my weakness. Jesus actually says this to Paul in the very previous verse. It says in verse 9 of

faith what I wanted to share today was a simple realization that I had over the last week or so which has had a really big impact on my life it's not a big realization but it's a big impact and I was it started with I was reminded

my life that I'm disqualified or that it's not possible for me to walk in the fullness of what's been proclaimed here not true at all and I wanted to encourage everyone as we think about praying in faith for what God will do

his work before I really want to be strong in faith I don't want it to be said of me Jeremy tried me even though he saw my works and so the question came to me what should i do instead and it's actually the subject of the rest of the

the greatest miracle of Hebrews 11. We think about Hebrews 11, this great hall of faith. And the greatest miracle, I've already given you a hint that it's Jacob. Um but it says in verse 21 of Hebrews 11, "By faith Jacob, as he was dying,

as things get busy don't forget to acquire my heart i pray that it would be true of me and it would be true of all of us that the lord would find that we are faithful ambassadors and stewards of the family resemblance and the various

says to the very end his father's loving him he's faithful he's monitoring the temperature he's monitoring the water pressure so to speak he is faithfully seeking to reduce all of the impurity into absolutely pure

that I wanted to mention have particular um importance for us in the Bay Area but the second thing is that it says whatever isn't of faith is sin. And we have to speak words of faith. And I want to distinguish words of faith