Page 11 - Grace Connections Magazine April
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The second thing we need to Faith is the substance of
do to help keep the devil under our things hoped for, the evidence of
feet is to build our faith in Christ. things not seen according to
Hebrews 11:1. It does not matter
Once we learn who we are in
him then we must believe it is true how miniscule it seems we can
and have faith in the one who said have faith for it.
it. We must always be on our toes Even a parking spot you ask.
because the devil is ready to attack Of course, why not! If it's
at first sign of weakness. He is important to us, then it's important
sneaky and waits for just the right to God.
moment and works extremely hard Why not use our faith on
to keep us down and as far away something that small when nothing
from Christ as we can be. We must is at stake? Build your confidence
have faith that lasts long enough to and faith on things like that so that
reach our goal.
bigger things will be easier to have
In Matthew 14:22 is the story faith for as well. We must build our
about Jesus and Peter walking on faith to have confidence so that
water. Jesus calls Peter out of the when the devil tries to come in and
boat to walk on water in the middle steal that from us, we can put him
of a storm. Peter gets out and under our feet again.
starts walking on water towards Then we remember what we
Jesus. Then Peter sees the wind have already accomplished with
and starts to get scared and then God's help. The story of David and
begins to sink.
Goliath is a great example for us in
Peter had faith but the 1 Samuel 17.
duration of his faith was not long David had already slayed the
enough for him to accomplish his lion and the bear. He was ready
goal. He let the circumstance and more than confident that he
control him and he let fear in. We could take on Goliath as well.
must always keep our faith up
because otherwise fear can sneak The circumstances didn’t
in and that is from the devil with matter because he had built his
more of his lies. confidence and faith before the BIG
challenge came. That is the key,
We must keep focused on our BUILD, BUILD, BUILD.
goal. We must continually develop
and build our faith.
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