Twelve Stones - Lesson 5 - Faith

Joshua 4:21-22, ‘…When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones? Then ye shall let your children know…’

The Lord has taken us from captivity and allowed us to enter His Promised Land. We have been in turn handed the awesome responsibility of walking differently of loving differently and teaching differently. Have we forgotten where we came from? Have we forgotten where we are going? Let’s not forget our foundation and let’s certainly not forget to pass the torch to the next generation.

Last week we reviewed consistency.

Can anyone give a report; good, bad or indifferent on the week of consistency?





Some synonyms for the word faith:
confidence, trust, reliance, assurance, conviction, belief, devotion and loyalty.

Rather than asking how is you faith?
I will ask how much do you trust the Lord?
You trust Him to bless your food before you eat.
You trust Him to get you to and from work safely.

You also trust Him with the big things that are out of your control.
Like a sick child.
Like a tragic disaster in your family.
With a life threatening or life shortening disease.

What about those things in the middle?
Do you trust Him to take care of that person you have a problem with in church?
Do you trust Him to take care of your spouse in those annoying little areas?

Do you trust Him to help you sin less when you turn it over to Him?
Do you trust Him with those things in the middle?
If you answer ‘No,’ what are we going to do about it?

Opening thoughts…





Hebrews 11:1, ‘Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.‘

That verse says a lot to us I think, on a personal level/
It would be impossible to explain to the unsaved.
I even find it hard to elaborate on.

Do you have anything you can share of this verse?





Romans 10:17, ‘So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.’

2Corinthians 5:7, ‘(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)’

Galatians 5:6, ‘For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcis-ion; but faith which worketh by love.’

1Timothy 1:5, ‘Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:’

James 2:17, ‘Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.‘



Faith is essential in Prayer

James 1:5-6, ‘If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.’
‘But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.’

Hebrews 10:38, ‘Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.’

1Corinthians 16:13, ‘Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.’




It is not faith and works; it is not faith or works; it is faith that works. -Anonymous

Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see. -Clarke

To me, faith means not worrying. -Dewey

All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all that I have not seen.
-Emerson

Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at his word. -Evans

Unless there is within us that which is above us, we shall soon yield to that which is about us. -Forsyth

It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free. - Fosdick

There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out. -Jones

The truly religious man does everything as if everything depended upon himself, and then leaves everything as if everything depended on God. -Parker

Faith can place a candle in the darkest night. -Sangster

Faith is like love; it cannot be forced. -Schopenhauer

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