My Faith and the Great Adventure
Matthew 9:29 "According to your faith it will be done to you."
Mark 9:23 (GN) "Everything is possible for the person who has faith."
How Does God Build My Faith?
STEP 1 - FIND GODLY PURPOSE
Ephesians 3:20 (LB)
"...God is able to do far more than we would ever dare to ask or even dream of -- infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, or hopes."
STEP 2 - WHAT GOD SAYS, DO!
James 1:6, 8 (GN)
"You must believe and not doubt...a double-minded man is unstable in all he does."
STEP 3 - PATIENCE THROUGH THE PROCESS
Habakkuk 2:3a (LB)
"But these things I plan won't happen right away. Slowly, steadily, surely, the time approaches when the vision will be fulfilled."
STEP 4 - PREPARED FOR PROBLEMS
1 Peter 1:6-7 (Ph)
"At the present you may be temporarily harassed by
all kinds of trials. This is no accident - it happens to prove your faith, which is infinitely more valuable than gold."
STEP 5 - EXPECT YOUR MIRACLE
2 Corinthians 1:8-9 (Ph)
"At that time we were completely overwhelmed, the burden was more than we could bear, in fact we told ourselves that this was the end. Yet we now believe that we had this sense of impending disaster so that we might learn to trust, not in ourselves, but in God who can raise the dead!"
STEP 6 - RECEIVE YOUR REWARD
2 Corinthians 1:10
"He has delivered...and he will deliver us again!"