we heard a couple of phrases holy discontentment and also anticipation and those two phrases imply faith and as I've meditated on what I could have done better in 2017 and my version for 2018

by the word for the week this week that was talking about Mary and it says that at first we may start off with a kind of a blind faith that we have - in other words there's a lot of situations that we can't reconcile they look strange

that i i really need to cling to that hold fast and it reminded me what i've heard from elizabeth elliott before don't dig up and doubt while you've stoned in faith and uh and i see that um a lot of times i've let myself do

everything that he he's done for us that is our motivation um it's only by his Mercy it says Romans goes on to teach that so that he would be just and the justifier of the one who has Faith so God had to make everything right but in

into more people like this and it impressed me more and more I remember one couple that I um was uh around it was a faithful Christian couple and they had lost a very large amount of money that they had in their retirement and I just overheard

coincidence God is doing he's adding paints to something that we can't see yet but we will one day and I want to have the attitude of faith that says I see the unseen I can't see the flipped over painting yet but I see it but it's

Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And that you, verse 18, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge." And

that says remember those who led you who spoke the word of god to you consider the result of their conduct imitate their faith so what did they have faith for they had faith this faith to be filled with the spirit um and so that's one thing but that

they're deciding to give up because they know God's going to be faithful otherwise God's going to be faithful even if they don't spend that extra time studying when they could have God will be faithful he if we're faithful to him

hey Scott our boost has to be in the Lord what would you say if you were standing there like we read in Jude 1 blameless in the presence of his glory and he said well done good and faithful servant what would your response be I

he missed God's best and was unfaithful because of carelessness and we've often heard in our church that we want to go through Scripture slowly and we're not trying to set any records but we want to absorb the scripture we don't want to go

come up to discourage us that could come in and that's the temptation that we must work for our salvation we're living in a day where the the truth about the fact that we're saved by faith and not by our works is well known but it's

Christian like 40 and some one through eight and then he ends it with nothing's going to separate us from Christ so we're going to encounter a lot of things that it's going to challenge our faith but but the way I would sum it up at the

know just on work all day like I think that's I think that's where right now that's where God wants me to be is thinking about work all day because he wants me to be a faithful worker and it's all about pleasing him it's not

convicted I was like that there's a little bit of lack of faith in that because I felt like I could go further than that and I was like lord I don't want the children of ncc f just to be saved I want all to be shining lights

and it kind of and he he gave the reason um god does not want us to live depending on our feelings he wants us to live by faith this is why god sometimes allows us to feel spiritually dry such feelings of dryness are not always

that reminded me of that it's a principle don't dig up in doubt what you've sown in faith so what God has shown me what he's been clear to me don't start digging up with all these reasonings but cling on to it and faith

testimonies of others as they've been sharing their words of faith and it helps me to remember that God is working in everybody's life I don't believe I can look at just my own life and say I see God working I can see working in the

thanks for sharing that Jeremy um I also wanted to share something uh related to Faith and the um what I wanted to share was from Matthew 17:17 and it's just um surprising to see

any external circumstance any burden on the outside um i've i've not seen that and that god is faithful to this principle and for example there's been times when i had to make choices that resulted in some loss for example some financial

for sharing that Jeremy um I want to be full of Faith too uh I had something to share um yesterday uh Isaac he was uh struggling to get on his socks and um to the point where uh he started almost crying uh and then

and he said to them why are you afraid do you still have no faith and i was just reminded jesus was full of so much faith and i was reminded of hebrews 11 that says if you want to please god this the way to do it is to have big

you so if he sees our faith that we want this this is what we want I'm going to show you God with my actions this is the nature without that I want then he'll change us inside and give us that nature so we didn't do it it's a gift and we're