Faith The Greatest Power In The Wprld

The world laughs when men and women step out by faith, but God is with them and enables them to succeed to His glory.

II. Walking In Faith enables you to Obey When you Don’t Understand It

(Hebrews 11:8) Abraham is a classic example of obeying when he didn’t understand. He was about 75 years old, and God asked him to give up all his security – right at an age when Abraham should have been getting Social Security!

God said, I want you to leave. Pick up everything and get ready for the greatest adventure of your life.

The scary part of it is God gave Abraham no details. Abraham says, "Where are we going?"

God says, You’ve never heard of it.

"How long is it going to take?"

You’ll find out.

"How will I know when I get there?"

I’ll let you know!

Sometimes God will tell you to do something , and you’ll think, "There’s no way this is going to work!" Yet, God says, Do it!

And guess what? It works!" And who gets the glory? God does.

III. Walking In Faith enables you to Give When you Don’t Have It

"By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as a righteous man, when God spoke well of his offerings" (Hebrews 11:4, NIV)

This truth is most seen in two areas that are connected, worship and tithes.

There are times when life’s struggles make it difficult almost impossible to give worship or our tithes. That is when you need to deliberately set aside your feelings and call out to God and offer the sacrifice of praise.

We are commanded in Hebrews 13:15, Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.

It is easy to complain and find fault with the church. It is easy to give into circumstances. But it takes supernatural faith to set you feelings aside, and choose to offer God the praise HE deserves inspite of how you feel.

IV. Walking In Faith enables you to Persist When you Don’t Feel Like It

"How do you develop persistence? How do you develop the kind of persistence that keeps you in a position when God has put you there, when every bone in your body says, "Quit!" Where do you get that kind of persistence?"

Let’s look at Moses:

"By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible." (Hebrews 11:27, KJV)

"Notice the key to persistence is that last phrase – he could see the invisible. Only as we see the invisible can we accomplish the impossible. The key to persistence is to keep your eyes on God. Keep your eyes on the Lord Jesus Christ.

[A certain boss was talking to his employee about selling their products and he said,

"The main thing to remember is that repetition is the key. Repetition. Repetition. Repetition. If you have a product to sell, keeping harping on it in every possible way and at every possible chance. Cram it down people’s throats if you have to...make yourself sickening, if need be...but don’t forget to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat. It’s the only way to get results."