At The Heart of Faith
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 4 June 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Hebrews 11:1 says, “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” Faith is the undercurrent of everything we do as followers of Jesus. Without faith we lose all that Christ died to give us while here on earth. It is by faith we access the peace, joy, guidance, love, and purpose that comes from restored relationship with our heavenly Father. In this week of devotionals, we’re going to seek an increase in faith in response to God’s faithfulness. May you experience a greater depth of intimacy with your living, Almighty, and loving heavenly Father.
Our Scripture for today comes from 1 Corinthians 2:5, and today's worship is Goodness of God by Bethel Music feat. Jenn Johnson.
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Live a life marked by faith.
The Bible has so much to say about our faith. And if I’m being honest, a lot of it is really confusing.
In Matthew 21 Jesus tells us that we’ll receive anything we ask for, if we have faith. Hebrews 11 tells us that it’s impossible to please God if we don’t have faith. 2 Corinthians 5 tells us that it is by faith that we “see” the path forward, and not with our physical sight.
But when I look into my own heart, I come face to face with ways I doubt on a daily basis.
I often trust in my own strength, lean on my own understanding, and seek to provide for myself with my own power rather than relying on the strength, empowering, and provision of God.
But, I also know that simply trying to have more faith doesn’t work either.
This is why I wrote a four-week devotional, Faith, to unpack what the Bible says about living a life marked by an authentic faith.
Faith isn’t something we muster up on our own. It’s not something we produce or create. Faith is the natural response to seeing, experiencing, and believing in God’s faithfulness.
And the pathway to greater faith is greater experience, greater understanding, and a true heart-knowledge of God’s faithfulness to us that guides our thoughts, emotions, and actions.
We've launched Volume 6 of our First15 Devotional Series, Faith, created to guide you into transformative experiences with God’s faithfulness and empower you to start living a life marked by authentic faith.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hebrew's 111 says now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things |
| 0:10.8 | not seen. |
| 0:12.6 | Faith is the undercurrent of everything we do as followers of Jesus. |
| 0:17.6 | Without faith, we lose all that Christ died to give us while here on earth. |
| 0:22.4 | It is by faith that we access the peace, joy, guidance, love, and purpose that comes |
| 0:29.4 | from restored relationship with our Heavenly Father. |
| 0:32.9 | In this week's Versa-team podcast, we're going to seek an increase in faith in response |
| 0:37.8 | to God's faithfulness. |
| 0:39.8 | May you experience a greater depth of intimacy with your living, Almighty, and loving Heavenly |
| 0:46.2 | Father. |
| 0:59.4 | Today's Scripture comes from 1 Corinthians 2 3-5. |
| 1:07.4 | God's Word says, and I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling. |
| 1:13.2 | In my speech and my message were not implausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of |
| 1:18.9 | the Spirit and of power so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men, but in |
| 1:25.1 | the power of God. |
| 1:30.0 | As believers, living our lives founded on the hope given to us by God, faith is our life |
| 1:36.6 | blood. |
| 1:37.6 | Without faith, we have nothing. |
| 1:40.6 | Without faith, all sense of purpose, value, and joy in present trials and circumstances |
| 1:46.5 | scatters us as dust in the wind. |
| 1:49.9 | But with faith, we discover a wellspring of life with its origins found in the faithfulness |
| 1:55.8 | of our Creator God. |
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