Faith Builders
How does the Bible say faith comes?
Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God - Romans 10:17
How do you walk each day?
For we walk by faith, not by sight - 2 Corinthians 5:7
Refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God
Moses
Fasted three days for her people
Queen Esther
Causes you to believe one thing one day and another thing the next day
Double-mindedness
Doing this each day helps your faith to grow
Read God's Word
How do you please God?
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. (Hebrews 11:6)
Obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
Abraham
Often referred to as ‘the Apostle of Faith,’ was one of the pioneers of the Pentecostal revival that occurred a century ago.
Smith Wigglesworth
Hampers you from believing anything
unbelief
In which instance did God say it was okay to test him?
Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.” As you “test” or act on what God says and experience God’s blessing, your faith grows.
How are we justified?
Yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified. (Galatians 2:16)
Who was beaten countlessly, imprisoned, lashed, stoned, shipwrecked, hungered, thirsted, in hardships, exposed to cold, and constantly in danger from robbers, at sea?
Apostle Paul
Believed God for a building and a vehicle
Pastor Natalie Bowen
Perpetually being uncertain about what you read in God's word
Doubt
Meditating on God's faithfulness does what?
Increases Faith
How do you develop perseverance?
Because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance (James 1:3)
Even with the threat of being cast into the fiery furnace, he didn’t blink an eye but obeyed God rather than disobey God
Daniel
Gives her last bit of flour and oil to feed the prophhet
Widow at Zarephath (1 Kings 17: 7 - 16)
Loss of confidence or enthusiasm - Focusing only on what you see
Discouragement
What does being a "Doer of the Word" produce?
Increase of faith ...But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
How do you receive?
Matthew 21:22 And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith
Even though he slay me, yet will I trust him”
Job
Maria affirms “for about twenty miles round, men and women were struck down in their homes, in business places, and on the roads and streets. Some lay for hours and had wonderful visions.
Maria Woodworth-Etter, the Trance Evangelist
Not remembering what your face looked like in the mirror
Hearing the Word but not Listening to the Word