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pastor pillsbury doughboy's gooey middle reduction 10 faith stretching exercises program for a spiritually healthier new you
Posted : 21 Jan, 2021 05:05 PM
without faith it is impossible to please God (Heb. 11:6). Still, many of us have a stagnant faith that has not been challenged in years. We don’t know God better, and we don’t trust Him much more than we did years ago. If that’s where you are, maybe these ideas will help you challenge your faith
read the bible and learn about faith let the Word of God itself stretch your belief system learn from its lessons and trust its promises.
commit your children and grandchildren to the Lord—even if His calling on their lives takes them to the other side of the world. It’s one thing to make this commitment when they’re babies in arms; it’s a different matter when they’re college students making this move (or young adults taking your grandchildren with them).
Send your best leaders and givers to plant a church or assist a struggling congregation. Sending out members you’re unlikely to miss really doesn’t require much faith. Sending your best does.
Give sacrificially until it genuinely hurts your pocketbook. Faith is not a concern when your giving is only out of your excess.
Take a risk—tell somebody the good news of Jesus. For some of us, evangelism doesn’t come naturally. Only in the power of God can we even engage in a conversation—so trust Him in faith, and confront somebody in love.
Ask God to break anything in you that weakens your relationship with Him. How He breaks you is His call, and your responsibility is to trust Him through the anguish.
Trust a layperson to do a job you know you could do better. You might well do it better, but equipping someone else to do it will strengthen your congregation. Trust that God will direct you to the person and the job.
Pray this prayer: “Lord, I give You a blank check. I will do whatever You write on the line.” He might just fill in the blanks with an unexpected, sometimes frightening role—and you’ll need faith to follow Him.
Do that thing you know you need to do. I cannot know what that “thing” is for you, but God does—and you do. Rather than disobey Him, though, determine today to take a step of faith. Do that “thing” God commands.
Wait. On God. If your tendency is to try to solve your own problems without first seeking God, stop that tendency. Rest in Him. Wait for Him to guide you through His Word, His Spirit, and His people before you act.
What other ways has God challenged and stretched your faith?
pastor pillsbury doughboy's gooey middle reduction 10 faith stretching exercises program for a spiritually healthier new you
Posted : 22 Jan, 2021 01:06 AM
" Still, many of us have a stagnant faith that has not been challenged in years."
1 Corinthians 4:7 For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
"commit your children and grandchildren to the Lord—even if His calling on their lives takes them to the other side of the world"
John 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
"Send your best leaders and givers to plant a church or assist a struggling congregation"
1 Corinthians 1:28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.
"Give sacrificially until it genuinely hurts your pocketbook"
Luke 14:33 33 So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
"For some of us, evangelism doesn’t come naturally"
Matthew 21:16 And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?
"Ask God to break anything in you that weakens your relationship with Him."
Philippians 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
"Trust a layperson to do a job you know you could do better"
Luke 21:8 And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them.
Acts 20:29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
"Pray this prayer:"
Romans 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
"Wait. On God. If your tendency is to try to solve your own problems without first seeking God, stop that tendency."
Ezekiel 34:11 For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
