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A prayer for faithful dependence by Pete Brisco.

For I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear. I will help you.

Isaiah 413.

Jesus doesn't work harder for those who try harder.

So if you've been busy muscling up some stellar faith,

hoping someday you'd have just enough to have just a little

more Jesus you can stop. Jesus isn't concerned about the quantity or the quality of

your faith. He just desires to be the object of your faith.

When we depend upon someone other than Jesus, we are going to be disappointed. Our society offers a buffet of choices, health and

wellness, dead people, spouses, careers, IR's, and even pastors. All of them are imperfect and totally

unqualified to become the object of your faith. How about today's gurus? They're simply preaching secular legalism, teaching a different list of rules, but rules all the same. Rules can't hold you up. I remember my elementary science teacher explaining the human

skeleton. If all went well I'd never see my own bones, but without them I'd be nothing more than a blob of flesh and muscle on pavement.

Same goes with faith. People are always looking for visible objects of faith, yet it's the ascended Christ and the invisible but indwelling spirit who holds us up in this faith journey.

In fact, scripture teaches that faith is produced by God's spirit in us.

We have no control over its volume and quantity in our lives,

but we do get to choose whom we trust.

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