Where Is Your Faith Series

I parked my car where I could find a parking space and walked to the office of an ambulance company downtown. Getting close to the building, I was standing at a 4-way traffic light waiting for it to change to green so I could safely cross the busy highway. A tall man with blonde hair and a fair complexion stood next to me while I waited for the light to change and continued to pray silently for the help I needed from God. I looked up to the man, smiled, and then went back to my introverted contemplation of a hopeful outcome.

All of a sudden the man asked, "Are you Joe Diaz?" I responded that I was him, but wondered how the man knew my name, and especially how he knew where to find me that afternoon. The man handed me an envelope and said, "The Lord sent me to give you this."

I opened the envelope, and to my surprise, it had two crisp $100 bills in it! To God be the glory! I then turned to find out how he knew how much I needed and to thank him for the much needed money only to find the man had disappeared as fast as he materialized.

I will take to my grave the knowledge that I met an angel that particular day in the summer of 1975! No one can tell me anything different. I crossed the street and was hired immediately when the interviewer found out that I had been a medical corpsman in the Air Force and was one also in the Air National Guard! I stand amazed in the presence of Jesus the Nazarene! Amen.

I truly believe that if we trust God in prayer and faith, He does come to our aid.

While serving as an assistant pastor of a church in Los Angeles, California,

I have preached that faith moves the hand of God.

Our problems are not so small that He cannot dispatch His angels to minster to us or bring aid in accordance to His will! Amen!

Where is your Faith?

III. Faith in the Downs of Life

24 The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we’re going to drown!”

There will come in a point in our life….

That problem pulls you down…

That problems knocks you down…

Most of the time falling down is a lot easier than going up…

Going up is very hard….

Like when you climb up into the mountain it’s very hard…but when you are in the top….its very beautiful…

You can see what beneath…

Going down is very easy but being in the bottom is not as beautiful as being on the top…

When your life is down…

Where is your faith?

Because Faith will make you go up…stand again…fight again…

The disciples were afraid because they were going to be drown…

Being down is not just having problem

Having sickness…

Having difficulties in life…

Being down is also having a desire but you cannot have it…

God answer prayer by YES, NO, Yes but wait, Yes and here is more…

What if we prayed hard and God answers no…

It will make you disappoint with God…

It will make you angry with God…

Lord I have served you…

Lord all of my time I spend praying…going to church…leading myself group…reading Bible…