Increase Our Faith (Matthew 8:10,26)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 8 January 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Pray the Word on Matthew 8:10, David Platt asks God to help us believe wholeheartedly in His power.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net. |
| 0:05.6 | Matthew chapter 8, verse 10. When Jesus heard this, he marbled and said to those who followed him, |
| 0:11.9 | truly I tell you, with no one in Israel, have I found such faith. And then Matthew chapter 8, |
| 0:18.8 | verse 26, he said to his disciples, why are you afraid of you of a little faith? So these |
| 0:26.8 | verses are basically two opposite pictures of faith. In the first verse, Matthew chapter 8, |
| 0:33.3 | verse 10, a centurion has confidence, has faith that Jesus will heal his daughter. If he only says |
| 0:42.2 | the word, he doesn't even need to come to the centurion's house. The centurion believes that if |
| 0:49.0 | Jesus will just pronounce that she is healed, that she will be. And Jesus marbles. |
| 0:56.0 | Well, word, he marbles at this man and says to everybody who's following him, truly I tell you, |
| 1:02.9 | with no one in Israel, have I found such faith. And then in the second instance, Jesus is on a boat |
| 1:11.7 | with his disciples, the boats being swamped by the waves. He's asleep. The disciples are terrified. |
| 1:20.4 | They wake him up and he looks at them and says, why are you afraid of you of little faith? |
| 1:27.3 | Then he stands up and rebukes the wind and the waves and everything calms down. I read these |
| 1:34.1 | two verses and I can't help but to think, how would Jesus describe my faith? How would Jesus |
| 1:41.4 | describe your faith and don't we want our lives to be lived in such a way that Jesus would marvel |
| 1:51.0 | at our faith in him instead of Jesus looking at us and saying, why are you afraid of you of little |
| 1:59.5 | faith? God, I pray this over my life and over the life of every single person listening right |
| 2:05.9 | now. We pray that you would increase our faith and you increase our knowledge of who you are |
| 2:14.6 | and what you do and your promises and your purposes in the world that we might trust totally |
| 2:21.8 | and you. When we pray, God, I confess that sometimes I pray and I pray out of a heart of little faith. |
| 2:29.6 | I pray wondering almost if you're hearing or if you're going to answer God, forgive me for my |
| 2:37.3 | little faith and I pray boldly for things that I'm asking for in my life and others lives around me |
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