As we go through this tonight, there would just be one, one knot untied after another,

in our understanding or in our hearts in our spirit.

Father God if there's something somewhere in us that's keeping us from drawing closer to you.

And Lord, unlike my manner as we're going into this particular portion of scripture that we've been in and will finish tonight by your grace is decision-making.

Making the right decision.

And Lord, we know that just in the realm of logic

and argument, if you can make a wrong decision, then you can make a right decision.

If you can make a right decision, you can make a wrong decision.

We are not pre-programmed to be in the self-destruct mode just because we might

have been raised by somebody that was off the rails or we had a horrible experience or maybe

we were abandoned and from one foster home to the next or whatever it might be

whatever PTSD might be in our lives, all of that can be fixed tonight by the great

power of your Holy Spirit using the word of God. So Father, we ask you to visit us now in

Jesus' name and all God's people said. Amen. Everybody, we're looking at this

message series titled Your Life on Faith. That's how the believer wants to live. All of us, every single one of us as believers, we want to live a life of faith. And a life of faith is a life that is not in any way foggy it's not weird it's not oh look look

he's living his life by faith and it's not some sort of a mystical thing. To live your life by

faith in the word of God and Almighty God is to live a life that I believe has direction, has purpose, has vision, and has power.

You want to talk about a faith that doesn't have the Lord?

Then I understand it's a faith that would be bouncing off the walls of emotionalism or legalism.

We're not into that because God's not into that.

But if you have faith in the Lord, then the truth of the matter is God's will will be lived out in

your life in this world. And it's an amazing passage. There's a verse in 1st John that basically announces that as he is,

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