Hi, everyone. Welcome to At Home with Sally. I'm Sally Clarkson, and I have the biggest

privilege in the world to be with so many friends from all over the world who join me every week

to listen to my stories, inspiration, biblical encouragement, and I am just so

glad that you're here today. Thanks so much for joining me.

Well, hello, my friends. How are you today? I wish you could be sitting with me on my front

porch with a lovely cup of tea and we could chat and be friends. So often I think about how much

fun it would be to have the conferences we used to have with. We had up to 1,000 people, and we put them at round

tables, and there are always chocolates on the tables and some kind of little beautiful decor.

And I would give a talk, and then all the women would together visit and have fun and become friends. And sometimes I miss that.

I wish you could be right here in my home with me to talk about all these things. But I think

today's podcast, it was very encouraging to me the subject of the podcast. And so I hope it's

going to be extremely encouraging for you as well.

But we've been going through a series together on the fruit of the Holy Spirit. Love, joy, peace,

patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness. And that's where we're stopping today. But oh my goodness,

faithfulness is essential. The Holy Spirit prompts us to be faithful. If we listen, the Holy

Spirit encourages us to be faithful. And I think that as we look at it, first of all,

faithfulness means it's full of faith.

God says without faith, it's impossible to please him.

Because, my friends, most of our lives, all of our lives on this earth, we live by faith.

We live by faith that God is there, that Jesus was real, that the word of God is true.

We walk by faith every single day, and God says that pleases him so much. Without faith, it's

impossible to please God. For he who comes to God must believe, have faith, that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who

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