Wednesday: Faith (3)

"You of little faith, why are you so afraid?"

Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters. It is Wednesday and that means it is "SALVATION WEDNESDAY". Yes, the day we pray for the unsaved, those who have not been born again. Please do not be fooled by this, for sometimes you might be praying for one you sit with or near in church or maybe, just maybe, even the pastor. Please add Pastor Carol to your prayer list. Also keep praying for "Don" who is blind, however, God is working with him right now. Also for Pastor Charles, Pat and Sharon, for them to get out of the wheelchair. Also pray for Greta who has new legs from the knees down and the best attitude I have seen in my life for a person losing limbs. Please pray that she will walk on them soon. Last night I was given two names of young men, one in the military and leaving for Iraq, "Joseph Habecker", and one working as a mechanic on the striker vehicles in Iraq, "James Warner".

Faith (3): Let me start today by saying if you are not praying in faith that God will hear and answer your prayers, you are wasting your time. Has your faith been tested lately? You know our faith can be tested in many ways, and sometimes we put more faith in some earthly things than in our Lord Jesus. Let me give you an example. Each morning you get up, you get ready for work, or school, or maybe a shopping trip. You go out to your car and you have "faith" that it is going to start, and most often it does, but sometimes it fails. The battery might go dead, or the engine goes bad, etc. You get on the road and you have "faith" that the old piece of steel will keep running and get you to work, why you might even go up on one of those big high bridges and have "faith" that this machine will not stop.

We parents put "faith" in our children, and that can be reversed as our children put "faith" in us. And while we trust in these earthly things, even like this darn computer working, we fail to put full "faith" in the one and only place where it will never fail us ... Our Lord Jesus!!

Here might be the very best one of all, we put "faith" in our governments that they will do what is right, and we put "faith" in those telling us to invest ... and then when things fall apart, and they ask us to believe in them and tell us to keep our dollars invested and it will be all right, we keep having "faith". Folks, again I say, and you can quote me on this, "We often put faith in things that will fail or have failed, while we do not give full faith in our Lord Jesus who will never fail."

My lesson today comes from Matthew 8: 23: Then He got into the boat and His disciples followed Him. 24 Without warning, a furious storm came up on the lake, so that the waves swept over the boat. But Jesus was sleeping. 25 The disciples went and woke Him, saying, "Lord, save us! We're going to drown!" 26 He replied, "You of little faith, why are you so afraid?" Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the waves, and it was completely calm. 27 The men were amazed and asked, "What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the waves obey Him!" (NIV)

The answer to that question, "What kind of man is this?" IS He is God, the one and only place we should put complete "Faith".

Dear Father in Heaven, help us to increase our faith in You more and more each day till our faith is that of the little mustard seed. Lord, we deep down know You will not fail us if we only believe. Lord, we pray for those on our lists that our sick, for those that need protection, but most of all, today we pray for the unsaved that they will come to You, and we ask that You use us to help bring in the lost sheep. Lord, help us as we want to work in those fields, working for You. Keep our faith strong in the place it belongs, in You, our dear Lord Jesus, and I pray in your name. Amen.

Now go forth, having full faith in Jesus and not fool faith in other things. Keep your eye on Jesus and look full into His wonderful face ... and share those blessings .... see ya, love ya, dan.