Big Faith
Posted 6/29/2011
Mat 6:30-34 Why are you worried about your life?: it's more than food and clothing!
- Faith = seek first His kingdom, and let a very capable God provide your food, clothing
- Like George Mueller, at the end of his means, and others led by God to provide food & supplies
- Elijah, prayed and it didn't rain James 5:17
- Depended exclusively on God's provision through miracles for food and water 1Ki 17:1
- David's prayers of faith in the Psalms as he ran for years from Saul
Mat 8:23-27 "Why are you afraid, you men of little faith?"
- Faith = no fear in physical danger
- Helen Berman living with people breaking into her home and stealing, and still continuing to serve those same people
- Loeschers' carjacked, with child inside
- Paul & Silas singing in prison Act 16:16
Mat 14:27-33 Peter walking on the water
- Faith = obeying God's call without doubting
- Samuel answering God's voice 1Sam 3:10
- Call of the disciples
- Our call to adopt, despite the impossibility of it
Mat 16:5-12 The leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees
- Faith = seeing the spiritual beyond the physical, because the physical is so trivial
- Frays suffering the loss of their daughter, and continuing to serve
- McPhails chronically ill, yet continuing to seek souls
- False teaching from the serpent until know, intent on leading God's people away and destroying their effectiveness for their God 2Pe 2:1
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