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In touch with Dr. Charles Stanley

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Reaching the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ

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through sound biblical teaching

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Next on In Touch,

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Levels of Faith in the Life of the believer

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When you face difficulties and trials

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and hardships in life,

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how do you respond? Do you respond

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with doubt and fear and anxiety and fretting

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or do you respond by faith?

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And if you respond by faith, what level of faith?

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You say what do you mean by "What level of faith?"

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That's right, what level of faith?

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You say, "Well, how do you know what these levels are?"

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Well we're going to talk about it.

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How do you distinguish one from the other?

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What does it mean in my life?

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How does it affect my life?

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Speaking of levels of faith, well we all operate

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on one of three levels of faith.

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And the older we are the more faith we ought to have

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That's how we ought to go in our faith.

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But some people will stay all of their lives on the lowest level because

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Number one, maybe they don't even know that there are levels of faith.

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Secondly, too afraid to launch out. Too

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fearful to trust God. And so what happens is

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you go through life and you miss His best

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because you never grow in your faith.

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And that's what I am going to talk [br]about in this message, and that is the

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levels of faith in the life [br]of the believer.

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And it is very evident in scripture [br]that faith is very, very important

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in the eyes of God, and that He sees

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faith as very important in our life.

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And so, what we want to talk [br]about in this message

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is this: How to raise your faith level.

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How to get in a position, where you and [br]your relationship to God, or

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the way you trust Him will position you, listen,[br]to be blessed to the maximum

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of your potential because

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the way you trust Him determines [br]the way the blessings come.

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You don't trust Him? You [br]don't get blessed.

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You trust Him? You get blessed.

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And the more you trust Him, and [br]the way that you are able

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walk in these levels of faith,

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the greater the blessings that [br]come in your way.

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Think about how absolutely [br]essential and important faith is.

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And let's think about it in this light:

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If you look at the life of Jesus, [br]look at His ministry,

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here is what you discover. You discover

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that the theme of faith permeated [br]the whole ministry

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of Jesus. No matter what.

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And I want to give you a few [br]verses of scripture ...

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Now, I won't have you turn to all[br]of these because