Praying in Faith
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 7 June 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
In today’s First15 devotional, we’re going to look at what it means to pray in faith. We have a good Father who listens to every word we pray, and knows every need of our hearts before we even ask for it. May God’s goodness become the foundation of our prayer, that we would learn to pray out of a place of belief instead of begging, and hope instead of doubt.
Our Scripture for today comes from Mark 11:22-24, and today's worship is Find Me by Jonathan and Melissa Helser.
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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.
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| 0:00.0 | In today's first of team podcast, we're going to look at what it means to pray in faith. |
| 0:09.9 | We have a good father who listens to every word that we pray, and knows every need of |
| 0:14.5 | our hearts before we even ask for it. |
| 0:17.4 | May God's goodness become the foundation of our prayer, that we would learn to pray |
| 0:22.1 | out of a place of belief instead of begging, and hope instead of doubt. |
| 0:27.5 | Welcome to the first of team podcast. |
| 0:43.0 | Today's scripture comes from Mark 11, 22 through 24. |
| 0:47.6 | Jesus says, have faith in God. |
| 0:50.8 | Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, be taken up and thrown into the sea, |
| 0:57.2 | and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass. |
| 1:02.5 | It will be done for him. |
| 1:04.4 | Therefore, I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and |
| 1:10.4 | it will be yours. |
| 1:14.9 | Prayer is our most powerful gift when done in faith. |
| 1:18.9 | Ian Bounds described the power of prayer and saying, we can do nothing without prayer. |
| 1:24.8 | All things can be done by unfortunate prayer. |
| 1:28.2 | Its surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes ever-resisting force, and gains its end |
| 1:34.2 | in the face of invincible hindrances. |
| 1:38.0 | God loves to move when we pray. |
| 1:40.9 | He is not a God who forces his will on his people, but in love, waits for us to capture |
| 1:46.6 | his heart and ask him to move and work in our lives and the lives of others. |
| 1:52.7 | There is no more important task before us today than to learn what it is to pray in faith. |
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