Title: Practicing Faith
Contents
Hebrews 11:1-2
Not long ago, a marriage information company conducted a survey on marriage partners.
As a marriage partner, 49% of men and 63% of women valued the first priority.
It was said that it was a stable job, followed by family environment, educational background, and appearance.
If you are going to get married, loving and caring for each other should be the first
It seems that you are getting a job in a stable lifelong company based on material.
In addition, we too, our adults lived a difficult life, so our children are financially stable.
I want to have more good opportunities by studying well so that I can make a living.
Too often we think that financial stability will make us happy.
If you look around us, we see families that seem economically stable, and we live happily ever after.
There are far too many insecure families.
Why? Materials are also needed, but a family or a country that lives solely on material is not stable.
that it is not.
If you look closely at the process of God creating man in Genesis, other animals are just
They say that he was created, but it says that man was made of dust, and God breathed life into his nostrils.
That is why people must basically live according to God, according to the Word, and according to the Holy Spirit.
If you live only according to material things, only by health, and only by pleasure, you will have no choice but to live a life of conflict and wandering.
Dear brothers and sisters, we are saints, but because we live in the world, there are many times when we do not live the life of a saint, but rather focus on material things. Therefore, there are many cases of failure in the life of a saint.
How great is our faith?
How can you and I live by faith?
1) We must live according to the Holy Spirit
Everyone in the world strives to live by knowledge.
In order to live according to knowledge, people live by acquiring knowledge from babies in mother's womb, babies, kindergarteners, elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, universities, and other privately specialized academies.
But our faith is not learned knowledge
As 1 Corinthians 2:9 says, “Eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and the heart of man has not entered all that God has prepared for those who love him.”
10. But God has revealed this to us by the Holy Spirit, who searches all things, even the deep things of God.
Therefore, our faith is not knowledge obtained by study, but God's Spirit unless it is the Holy Spirit of God.
You cannot believe in God, and you cannot say that God is Lord.
It is said that no one can know God without the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit says that He will come upon us when we truly repent before God.
You must truly repent before God. People don't take their sins so seriously. The things we deceived with our hearts, our mouths, our actions, the things we lied, the things we were not thankful for, the things we were proud of, and the things we judged recklessly. In order to become people of the Holy Spirit used by God, we must repent thoroughly. At that time, the Holy Spirit will come and let us know who God is and what God has prepared for us.
There are many people who know the Bible intellectually, but because they repent and are not filled with the Holy Spirit, they go to church but cannot live according to God's will.
What do we look like? I pray in the name of Jesus that you must repent and be filled with the Holy Spirit to live a life of faith.
2) I hope you look at what God will do in your daily life with confidence
What all the great men of faith in the Bible in Hebrews 11 have in common is that God
It means that I looked forward to seeing what God would do every day with faith.
What everyone saw was what it was.
Can not be done. Why? Cut off your thoughts and God will do it. God makes it happen. It means that I prayed and looked at it every day while I was doing it and I was thankful and thought positively. At that time, they made them healthy, fulfilled their dreams, and lived happily ever after. President Park Chung-hee of our country knew that. Do it. If not, make it happen.
It was this positive thinking that made our country happen.
We are in faith in God. Do you have negative and murmuring thoughts? What do you say if you can? There is nothing impossible in faith.
Jesus said
However, the circumstances of our daily life often break our faith. So we must pray every day. There are some people who pray without saying a prayer, but in fact, if you pray without a voice, you have other thoughts, and there are many cases where you think differently while praying.
Please pray out loud. It's good if you do it when you pray, or not
He says that we should pray earnestly, not with this kind of heart.
When we do this, we can put our faith into practice. It is to practice faith by giving God the boldness and courage of faith.
I hope you have the courage to look to God.
I believe that God will build me up when I fall.
God, I believe that God's dream God has given me in my life will come true soon.
God, please solve the various difficulties you have given me.
If you have the courage to look to God, God will help you.
3) You must pray to practice your faith
The human body also dies if it does not breathe for 4 minutes.
A person's soul will also die if it does not receive God's grace.
No matter how much you study, no matter how much money you make, no matter how hard you live, no matter how many years you go to church
Those who do not pray to God have a normal spirit.
Korea's amazing miracle is because Korea was a country of prayer
Early Morning Prayer Wednesday Prayer Friday Prayer All-night Prayer This is the only church in the world in Korea
there is no But these days, you are losing your prayers.
Hansarang Church members, let's pray again.
Get up a little 30 minutes earlier in the morning. And please pray.
Prayers of thanksgiving, prayers of repentance, prayers for the church, prayers for missionaries.
Please pray for your dreams and your family.
Almighty God, who created the world, hears early in the morning.
He awakens our sleeping courage, dreams, and talents during prayer time.
God prepares an angel for us.
It makes us put our faith into action.
Fill me with the Holy Spirit of the Lord.
In this prayerless, competitive and complex age, depression and poor sleep
I can't sleep. A 20% increase in people who can't sleep at night
4) To practice the life of faith, you must hide your words
The characteristic of the people of faith in Hebrews 11 is that they always spoke the words of faith.
Abraham also said the word of faith, even as an old man without children, saying that God would make my descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore.
If you give him a child, why doesn't God give him a single child, he can say, "Give it to me early."
It means that they obeyed and labored to keep the faith, but they obeyed by speaking the word of faith without being arrogant or complaining.
If anything that causes us to complain, to anger, or to grumble,
If you say it as it is, you will become that kind of person. Please do not follow Satan's instructions to make you do that. If you speak according to the circumstances given, you will be buried there.
So please
I will not speak according to the circumstances given, I will speak the words of faith.
Please say thank you. Please say blessings.
As a Korean proverb says, it is to repay a thousand nyang of light.
A fight may arise over the words spoken.
I have faith in me, but I can't speak the words of faith.
Don't hurt your faith or your conscience, either to yourself or to anyone else.
But if we speak the word of faith, we become people of God who builds up people, gives them courage, and gives them joy.