Faithfulness

So this past week my friend had mentioned that he would be giving a testimony at URC on Sunday. I said I would pray and I did, I prayed that his words were from God not from him and spoke truth about the goodness of the Gospel. It was really ironic when I sat in church and realized that his words were indeed from God and I in fact needed them.

He spoke of his life in the past four years, now I have been blessed to see his life in those past four years in a detail the average person has not. I have watched God grow him from a baby Christian to a solid man of the Lord (to which I praise God). His testimony was a reminder I very much needed that the Lord is faithful. More faithful then we deserve him to be with a faithfulness secured by his word.

The sermon was then about faith (Mark 9:14-29) here are some highlights.

Faith is always focused (fixed on Jesus in the midst of chaos), sometimes small, never self reliant.

It is not the strength of my faith that makes the difference, but the object of my faith (if I believe ice won't break, my belief does not change the strength of the ice itself).

What will it take to get more faith and have it? Prayer!

Bottom line it was good to have the reminder before the sermon even started that the God I have faith in is completely faithful. Thanks Bryce for sharing.

Lord I believe, Help my unbelief.