you then the next verse says be of sober spirit beyond the alert your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour but resist him firm in your faith and that word sober really spoke to me it says be of

you know if you look at verse 2 if i have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge and have all faith so as to move mountains but if i don't have love if i'm touchy what am i it says i'm nothing i'm nothing

i pray that the lord would um continue the work that he's begun here to the glory of his name that jesus christ would be exalted and lifted up and that every i would um be astounded at his goodness and his faithfulness and his love and his power

faith in me acts 26 verse 18 this verse was a Paul's Great Commission so to speak

so many things that had luke not faithfully sought to record these things for his friend theophilus we wouldn't know so many things we're familiar with for example the prodigal son and the uh the incredible blessing it is that we would not have had luke

that we kind of secretly hope i really hope they don't ask me to do that seeking them out proactively is a servant art it's not a service mindset all right i was thinkin our faith may certainly include times of dedicated

and I'm thinking about a very present personal present difficulty so this is a testimony that I want to say in faith that present difficulty I am facing is not keeping me from ministry it is God's appointed means of equipping me for

prophets with the sword and I alone and left they seek my life to take it away essentially what he's saying is I've been so faithful to you why aren't you helping me I'm running because I'm afraid you won't help me is basically

rejoice over them to do them this good the putting the fear of god in their hearts and i will faithfully plant them in this land the land of fearing god with all my heart and with all my soul we've heard the lord say that we should love the lord with all

weeds and sprinkling the ground it's also praising the Lord praising him full of faith we've seen that in Romans 4 right recently it's been a verse that's that's continued to bless me romans 4 verse 19 it says abraham was as good as dead his saw his

I learned far too late in my life and if you haven't learned that lesson yet either I would encourage you to take a step of faith and see see the Lord bless your life in a special way okay so I'll remind of the order at the

i've been praying for you that your faith won't fail we have to see that face behold the kindness and severity of god behold and for us we we are intimately acquainted with his severity because of the standard that we proclaim

over if units run there real quick and James 1 and verse 2 it says consider it all joy my brethren when you encounter various trials why should we be rejoice when we encounter trials because the testing of your faith produces not first

verse is um because it's the confidence we can have um like when i said at the very beginning of the meeting we need to our utterance should be a confession of faith what's our utterance this is the utterance the lord laid on my heart as i

then my heart was able to say to you your faith shall i seek and i want to have more of that humble acknowledgement of peter it's it's impossible for me to come out on the water unless you'll command me lord if it's you would you please command me

shout for joy o barren one it's so opposite how I feel when I see the standard and I'm aware of my lack I think I want to do anything but shout for joy and yet I feel that the Lord has been leading me in this declare by faith

of them didn't have the courage or the faith to actually do it but many of them would say yeah I'd love to I'd love for it to be said of me that I eradicated the bailout of all of Israel and that was Jay who but why haven't we

the lord prepared him for his ministry but jesus was pleasing to his father by being faithful in that preparation time not because not because he was faithful in his ministry but because he was faithful in secret what is that what are

few weeks not gonna even try to share it although instead it I just wanted to share something simple and practical related to I'd written a little blog post a few weeks ago called feeding on God's faithfulness and which was

And to me, it's such a protection from being led astray from my purity and simplicity of devotion to Jesus. So, two things that I need for myself every day to maintain my purity and simplicity of devotion to Jesus. One is faith in God's

from first timothy 1 verse 5 it says the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith and i wanted to briefly talk about the gift of a clean conscience one of the things that jesus purchased