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Levels of Faith in the Life of the believer
When you face difficulties and trials
and hardships in life,
how do you respond? Do you respond
with doubt and fear and anxiety and fretting
or do you respond by faith?
And if you respond by faith, what level of faith?
You say what do you mean by "What level of faith?"
That's right, what level of faith?
You say, "Well, how do you know what these levels are?"
Well we're going to talk about it.
How do you distinguish one from the other?
What does it mean in my life?
How does it affect my life?
Speaking of levels of faith, well we all operate
on one of three levels of faith.
And the older we are the more faith we ought to have
That's how we ought to go in our faith.
But some people will stay all of their lives on the lowest level because
Number one, maybe they don't even know that there are levels of faith.
Secondly, too afraid to launch out. Too
fearful to trust God. And so what happens is
you go through life and you miss His best
because you never grow in your faith.
And that's what I am going to talk about in this message, and that is the
levels of faith in the life of the believer.
And it is very evident in scripture that faith is very, very important
in the eyes of God, and that He sees
faith as very important in our life.
And so, what we want to talk about in this message
is this: How to raise your faith level.
How to get in a position, where you and your relationship to God, or
the way you trust Him will position you, listen, to be blessed to the maximum
of your potential because
the way you trust Him determines the way the blessings come.
You don't trust Him? You don't get blessed.
You trust Him? You get blessed.
And the more you trust Him, and the way that you are able
walk in these levels of faith,
the greater the blessings that come in your way.
Think about how absolutely essential and important faith is.
And let's think about it in this light:
If you look at the life of Jesus, look at His ministry,
here is what you discover. You discover
that the theme of faith permeated the whole ministry
of Jesus. No matter what.
And I want to give you a few verses of scripture ...
Now, I won't have you turn to all of these because