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First15 Devotional

Faith in Trials

First15 Devotional

First15

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Today we’re looking at a topic I think all of us can relate to: how to have faith in the midst of trials. All throughout Scripture we see examples of God’s people struggling with faith in the midst of challenges. Doubt is something so natural, so human. And the world teaches us that when things get tough, we need to take this life into our own hands and sort it out. But God has a better way for us – the way of faith. May God empower us with revelation today that would bear the fruit of steadfast faith, even in the midst of trials.

Our Scripture for today comes from James 1:2-4, and today's worship is Coming Through by First15 Worship (feat. Jeremiah Brinkley).

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Transcript

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Today we're looking at a topic I think all of us can relate to, how to have faith in

0:10.0

the midst of trials.

0:12.2

All throughout scripture we see examples of God's people struggling with faith in the

0:16.6

midst of challenges.

0:18.6

Doubt is something so natural, so human, and the world teaches us that when things get

0:24.0

tough, we need to take this life into our own hands and sort it out.

0:29.2

The God has a better way for us, the way of faith.

0:33.1

May God empower us with revelation today that would bear the fruit of steadfast faith

0:39.9

even in the midst of trials.

0:42.5

Welcome to the 1st 15 podcast.

0:51.1

Trials and tribulation have the power to either keep us from abundant life or produce

0:55.8

in us character that sustains abundant life.

0:59.2

The choice is up to us, where our faith remains steadfast in the face of trouble, or where

1:05.7

we abandon the lifestyle of faith for one of the world.

1:10.2

James 1, 2 through 4 says, counted all joy in my brothers when you meet trials of various

1:16.6

kinds, where you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness, and let

1:22.0

steadfastness have its full effect that you may be perfect and complete lacking in nothing.

1:29.0

Allow the phrase count it all joy to settle in for a second.

1:34.2

What trials have you faced in the past?

1:37.0

What trials stand before you today is joy the emotion that stirs up within you when you

1:42.8

think about your problems.

1:45.0

My first instinct in the face of a trial is to run, I long to abandon the problems before

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