Okay, let's pray first. Heavenly Father, thank you for your presence with us. Thank you, Father, for the work you have begin in our lives and for your faithfulness in giving us a living word to sustain us, to warn us, to comfort us, to encourage

he tells you to apologize to someone go and said it right immediately be very faithful with money and live simply I lived extremely simply when I was a young man and I live extremely simply today and I was fortunate to marry a wife

consistency uh in the book Bible whose characters were mentioned um Joseph was one of the characters we meditated how uh he has been uh faithful in any test God has put

If you begin your prayer like that, you'll have a lot more faith when you have to pray. So [clears throat] it's very important to know that in Christ we are accepted provided we have honestly confessed all our sins. That's

fear that was quite a word for my heart take whatever decision you like but don't let it be based on fear let it be based on faith fear is the opposite of faith when fear comes in faith goes out when faith comes in fear goes out so I said okay

faith and saying one will you take it away and two lord if it's not your will that it be taken away then give me the power of christ to handle it and i believe he hears that prayer the last thing the third thing i believe the lord that he the lord has

also i was laid hold off by jesus christ now again if this was paul starting his race that would be one thing this is paul who has been running his race for years and having run his race faithfully for years he says listen

socially, economically, even in terms of faith. Obviously um we see things differently in many areas.

spirit. Verse 22 is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, faithfulness, goodness, self-control. The against such things there is no law. Now we go to Romans chapter 7. Here we see Paul's honest confession

five I'm mindful of the sincere Faith within you which is first in your grandmother L you see our grandmothers also have an influence and your mother un so Timothy's Grandmother Had some influence on her daughter uni who was

and build up his church and remain faithful when life gets hard. After 20 years of walking with Christ, I can tell you

that salvation comes through faith in Christ and all of us who received Christ we received Christ into our heart I know when I accepted Christ to my heart I probably asked Christ into my heart a 100 times between the age of 13 and 19

and I see my own life and I thirst for that life and I come with faith. Lord, fill me with your Holy Spirit. Give me the grace every single time I go through temptations. Help me to cry out to you. And one couple of areas we can all grow

goal. And Lord, you help me get there. I believe you want it for me. I want I believe you want this ambition for me as bad as I want it. That is faith. And I believe that you'll give me your Holy Spirit to help me get there if I I fall

that's what your goal is then if you look at that verse carefully saying then how can you even have faith in God if your whole life is concerned with what people think about you what P social media thinks about you how can

love those who hate you i thank god for those who hate me they have enabled me to obey one command in the bible which i would never have been able to obey if i had nobody to hate me if people didn't persecute me for my faith and for

they all h seem to have this in common is that they were incredibly faithful in the use of money. We just coming back from Colorado. We were listening to the biography of Hudson Taylor. Man, I'm challenged by his life. He was a

you remember Moses how after being faithful for so many years in the last moment just before he was about to enter the Promised Land when God told him to speak to the rock he went and hid the rock in anger and the punishment was so

Thank you, Nathan. Welcome back. Let's pray and ask the Lord to help us and how he has been faithful thus far and through singing and through memory

and immorality of such a kind does not exist even among the Gentiles that someone has his father's wife. Paul was away somewhere and a faithful sister Khloe in church in Corinth, she

Philippians was perhaps the second last letter that Paul wrote I think after SEC before II Timothy are certainly near the end of his life Paul had by now walked Faithfully with Jesus for about 30 years he's nearing the end of his course

verse 21. this is talking about Jacob at the very end of his life and it says by faith Jacob when he was dying blessed each of Joseph's sons and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff this is a guy who had stood alone on his own

in the new covenant of knowing that we have a savior that that can cover that whose blood covers our sins. That if we sin, if we confess our sins, he's faithful and just to forgive us our sins. So, how much more should we be

to be well pleasing to you and I can be well using to you even if I never do a miracle in my life you know if I never see a miracle in my life even if I can't preach I can't live faithfully the time