Will you trust Me?” Lesson 16
The Challenge of
living the FAITH-REST LIFE
Our Faith must be
progressive, always advancing
How,
then, does one's faith grow?
(1) Faith grows by hearing and learning the Word.
Rom.
(2) Faith grows by the ministry of the teaching, verifying work of the Spirit of God.
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basis indwelling of H/S, 1 John
2:27; 1 John
(3) Faith grows by the variegated trials of life
which cause people to look to the Lord and His provisions for life. James
1:2-4; 1 Pet.
1:6-9
(4) Faith grows through the teaching, encouraging, and supporting ministries of other believers.
Ephesians 4:11-16 11; 1 Thes. 3:2, 10;
5:11-14
The objective of growing faith, is to have a healthy heart! A
healthy mind?
What I mean by that is to have a mind with positive volition a desire to learn the will and word of God and to apply it.
a. Prov. 2:2 "Make your ear attentive to wisdom"
It says you control what goes into the mind! That intake is under your control. You decide what goes into your mind, and therefore what becomes your convictions.
b. Prov. 3:3
Verse notes a reality we need to
remember, that is,
truth is illusive.
That is, in that once you possess it, there is a constant danger of losing
it!
Of having it slip .
Both kindness and truth are something that must be learned and then to be guarded against loosing!
If you fail to guard what you bring into the mind along side of it, you will it!
"Bind them around your neck,"
Says that your
and virtue that is being lived out, that
is in your life comes from the Word of God.
"Write them on the tablet of your heart."
God's thinking is not innate with us; we must to make it a part of our and that's why the emphasis in these passages on writing them, inscribing them.