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FAITH FOR THE JOURNEY

FAITH FOR THE JOURNEY

Pastor Mike – 10-26-2025

  • Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. 2 We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith… Hebrews 12:1 NLT 

 

  • WALKING BY FAITH – 3 Nuggets of Wisdom 

 

  • 1. Grace & Peace is not tied to what we are vaguely aware of, but our knowledge of the gospel.

 

  • 2 Peter 1:2 (nkjv) Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

 

  • 2 Peter 1:2 (ampc)  May grace (God’s favor) and peace (which is perfect well-being, all necessary good, all spiritual prosperity, and freedom from fears and agitating passions and moral conflicts) be multiplied to you in [the full, personal, precise, and correct] knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. 3 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue…

 

  • 2. Faith never sits and complains; it always goes and does.

 

  • Luke 17:1 (AMPC) [Jesus Warns of Offenses] 1 And [Jesus] said to His disciples, Temptations (snares, traps set to entice to sin) are sure to come, but woe to him by or through whom they come!
  • Luke 17:3 (ampc) [Faith & Works] Pay attention and always be on your guard [looking out for one another]. If your brother sins (misses the mark), solemnly tell him so and reprove him, and if he repents (feels sorry for having sinned), forgive him.

 

  • 1907 “The Founder's Messages to Soldiers.” William Booth “Faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking. First faith and then works; and then faith again and then works again -- until they can scarcely distinguish between the one and the other.”

 

  • Luke 17:12 (ampc) (Jesus, headed to Jerusalem, passed through Samaria & Galilee) And as He was going into one village, He was met by ten lepers, who stood at a distance. 13 And they raised up their voices and called, Jesus, Master, take pity and have mercy on us! 
  • 14 And when He saw them, He said to them, Go [at once] and show yourselves to the priests. And as they went, they were cured and made clean.
  • JOSHUA 4 – STONES OF REMEMBRANCE OF THE PAST

 

  • 3. Faith is like a seed. It must be planted & protected to grow.

 

  • Mark 4:26 ampc (The Parable of the growing seed) And He said, The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed upon the ground, 27 And then continues sleeping and rising night and day while the seed sprouts and grows and increases—he knows not how.

 

  • Isaiah 26:3 NKJV You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You. 4 So trust in the Lord (commit yourself to Him, lean on Him, hope confidently in Him) for the Lord God is an everlasting Rock [the Rock of Ages].

 

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