so that Christ may do on your hearts through faith and that you being rooted and grounded in love and here's the part may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth and to know the

today we heard about uh faith and obedience and rest uh what I had to share was along the same lines um I'll just give a little example from uh um few minutes ago so uh I'm sitting in the back with Jessa and the kids and the uh

that maybe with a spirit with a sympathy with uh compassionate eyes or um an attitude of rest and faith in the lord they can see the faith and get that and god can manifest that aroma of christ through us that's what the bible

changed his mind he said to her a woman your faith is great shall be done for you as you wish and her daughter was healed at once so to me this just a reading about the what Jesus did here was amazing because I see him at every

through his spirit in the inner man so he's praying for strength for them and then he prays how so that christ may dwell in your hearts through faith and yet you being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all the

to the Thessalonians we should always give thanks to God for you he said that twice in chapter 1 verse 3 he said we ought always to give thanks to God for you brethren as is only fitting because your faith is greatly enlarged and the

remain and continue with you for your progress and joy in the faith and that spoke to me that real love is rooting for a person's progress in the faith not just that they'll have be a convert but that progress and it's similar to how

imagine the disciples were ever unrest when jesus was with them um uh but from our part i think two things come from my side and i i take it from hebrews 4 i think the two things are faith and obedience or surrender faith

cheerful yes daddy uh so i'm challenged to make my obedience more like jesus more immediate more immediate more cheerful more like jesus and i have faith that the lord will help me to do that and to grow to have that more of that

sure if it was for his faith or just some for something else but he had such a rest in the lord somebody later commented about this man they said he had such a rest in the midst of that persecution that it seemed to everyone else like

love that can endure um even when god allows us trials even when god allows us hard things uh and endure the temptations that when we want something and god says no be able to faithfully endure to get up even when we're bored maybe there's no major

him and i called him and then verse two the more they called them the more they went from them this is talking about how israel was straying but god was still faithful so even when bobby strayed and sinned god was still

and and he and he loves it when we appreciate him for it and faith say Lord I know you were with me I know you're you've been with me and so I praise God that I can be free from this slavery of people pleasing that I can

I think are uh have been important for me this season that I'm encouraged by we can have faith and he's given a clear way for us. It doesn't feel easy to explain it is easy but to do it now is the the challenge. So I trust the Lord to to

we confess our sins he's faithful and righteous to forgive us for our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness so there's a that's one of the greatest encouragements i've had with regard to this area is that judging myself is

perfecter of our faith who for the joy set before him endured the cross despising the shame and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God for consider him that word consider stuck out to me who has considered who has

believing that i'm not going to get anything out of it to lack of faith i think is what keeps me from going to God God's Word in times like I should i think i'm gonna go starving if I I believe I'm gonna get nothing out of

love is for me and praise God he's been faithful that as I've done this I see that he's he makes it more precious to me and I found rest as he's shown me more and more beautiful things about his love and one verse that keeps

which easily and so easily entangles us and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us fixing our eyes on jesus the author and perfecter of our faith so then it talks about his cross for the who for the joy set before him endured

what God has entrusted to us in the last 40 years which we have tried to preserve in faithfulness till today without compromising the

that by faith our faith is shown not just by words but by actions and so that's part of our faith this showing that with our actions I don't want to do this it's not what gives me the victory but it's what shows gut till it shows

not talking about oh I'm just going to go to heaven then I'll be perfect I mean I have faith that this verse is true he's going to save me I'm not going to be frustrated and impatient like this for the rest of my life I think that