faith. Don't let that fail, brother, sister, young person, child. Whatever you go through, young Some of you young children are listening to this. I hope you are. Remember this when you fail down the road and you dishonor God if you do.

going to turn it into good." He has come to that faith and that's why Jesus' prayer was Satan was Simon, "I'm praying that your faith won't fail. I don't mind if you fall, Simon. It's okay. I can handle the falling if your faith won't fail.

earth. In Romans 4, [clears throat] we read in verse 20 about a man who actually had faith, real faith. And like I was saying, the mark of faith is that if God takes longer to answer my request,

it's interesting that that's our verse for this You need faith. And I found that often you have to in a sense close your eyes from the wilderness and close your eyes from the desert in order to see the river

Faith as it were allows you to see what's inside the trial as opposed to the trial itself Faith allows you to see with eyes with with with a an understanding in your heart what God is doing inside through the trial as opposed to the

5 the goal of all of my teaching Timothy the goal of my instruction of our instruction Is Love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere Faith so this is the thought that the lord gave to me as a few days ago actually earlier

I thought I had faith, but I found that the longer it took, the more frantic my prayers were. I prayed more fervently or more anxiously. I will, if you will. Nothing wrong with fervent prayer. But the mark of faith is that if I really

go through some suffering also and I too must have faith in God but there's one word that is used in reference to Joe which is what I want us to look at today I would like us to look at today we count those blessed this is

and in your place of work did you live in faithfulness then even if your words are broken words and you can't sing in tune and we don't have good musical instruments it's a tremendous offering of praise and thanksgiving to God we never want to

when I'm growing in faith it means God can allow me to see less I don't have to see more of the circumstance or what God is doing I don't have to understand more God can Cloud more things from me because I'm growing in faith I'm not

to God because I've gone 36 days since falling and I'm counting it God says yeah you're counting I wasn't counting I was looking for Faith you know God's not looking for how many days you've made it without falling into that sin or doing

explain that when you read, rejoice in the Lord always. Again, I say rejoice. You can add because Jesus did it. That's what Hebrews 12 tells us, the author and perfector of our faith. And until you see Jesus, the person living out every

in your life don't let him have Oh don't let him have the true word of faith there is a version of Christianity that's going around Christendom today it's been called the word of faith because they used that phrase a lot he's

talk to you today about is the secret of a confident Faith see I believe that most Christians live their lives and I include myself in that for many years with a very shaky faith our faith is very shaky often times you go to the

And today we're going to start by we're going to take a series of going through all of these three things that we've considered, faith, hope, and love. And I'm going to begin by talking about faith today and we'll continue talking about faith some

It really just may be I agree with it. Yeah, it's true. It's God's word. I agree with it. But faith is something completely different. Faith has life in it. Faith has power in it. And even if you

so yesterday we did we did look at faith and we looked at uh what it what it's faith and how what is faith and how you get it today i want to um again emphasize that faith in essence if i was to use one phrase to describe faith it's

Commandments our faith remember this is what's pleasing to God faith is what's pleasing to God so pleasing to God what's pleasing to God is not keeping his Commandments it's faith that keeps his Commandments

I was still a new believer and now he's saying Santos I'm not going to explain it to you anymore I'm just going to ask you to trust me that's the proof that you're growing in faith

foreign that you have or if you don't have that you're longing for this morning the only way we can overcome the world is by faith

for you. Don't let your faith fail. Don't give up on me, Peter. I have a purpose for you. I know you feel like this is the end of the world, that you're not qualified anymore. I know that you feel broken and helpless. I

verse six therefore in the midst of whatever hurricane you're going through being always of good courage and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord because we walk by faith not by sight or I would paraphrase as I've been