Friday, 29th April, 2022
Bible Reading: Hebrews 11: 33-39, Luke 22:32
Memory Verse: And all of these, though they gained [divine] approval through their faith, did not receive [the fulfillment of] what was promised. Hebrews 11:39 (AMP)
Shall we consider other facts about faith:
18. Faith is not only when results come. Sometimes faith is why you stand when results don’t come – Apostle Joshua Selman.
19. Faith without works is dead (James 2:26b): God said it, I believe it, and I am working towards it.
20. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr said, “God didn’t promise us that we would avoid “trials and tribulations” but that “if you have faith in God, God has the power to give you a kind of inner equilibrium through your pain.”
(Hebrews 11:35).
21. “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
22. Where faith stops, exploits stops.
23. Many times, our challenges are not borne out of lack of money but borne out of lack of faith.
24. A man filled with the Word of God will likely be a man filled with the Word of faith.
PRACTICAL FAITH
The story is told of a priest who called for prayers because there had been drought in the land. After the congregation had gathered for prayers, the priest looked around and asked “Brethren, are you not ready to pray?” the parishioner replied “How do you mean? That is what we have come to do.” He asked again “What have you come to do?” And they chorused, “To pray for rain.” Then he asked “Where are your umbrellas and raincoats if indeed you believe God will answer your prayers?” The parishioners’ faith was stirred up so they went to fetch their umbrellas and raincoats. God honored their faith and gave them rain. What a lesson! Beloved, you must have faith in God for Him to bless you. It is one thing to pray, it is another thing to actually believe that God will do what we have asked for. Faith is an action word. Faith without works is dead (James 2:26b).
Quote: Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens – J.R.R. Tolkien
Prophetic Decree: Your faith shall not fail the test of time, in Jesus name.
Prayer Focus
1. Sing the hymn: My Faith is built on nothing less on page 104.
2. O Lord, please increase my faith, in Jesus name.
3. I receive a lion heart for a lion share in life, in Jesus name.
4. O Lord, please make me robust in faith, in Jesus name.
5. Faith killers of my parents house, die, in Jesus name.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 Chronicles 7-10
Hymn: MY HOPE IS BUILT ON NOTHING LESS
1. My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus Christ, my righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus’ name.
Chorus:
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand,
All other ground is sinking sand.
2. When darkness veils His lovely face,
I rest on His unchanging grace;
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil.
3. His oath, His covenant, His blood,
Support me in the whelming flood;
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my hope and stay.
4. When He shall come with trumpet sound,
Oh, may I then in Him be found;
In Him, my righteousness, alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne.