Destiny Christian Church

“God delights to increase the faith of His children...I say, and say it deliberately—trials, difficulties and sometimes defeat, are the very food of faith...We should take them out of His hands as evidences of His love and care for us in developing more and more that faith which He is seeking to strengthen in us.” - George Mueller

7 Lessons on Faith

1. Faith for Ministry

“God our Father has made all things depend on faith so that whoever has faith will have everything, and whoever does not have faith will have nothing.”—Martin Luther

2. Faith for Ministry

a. Faith to meet the needs of the people
b. Faith to rebuke the condemnation of the devil
c. Faith to ignore the challenge of the religious
d. Faith to overcome the failures of the past!
e. Faith when surrounded by religious unbelievers

3. Walk by Faith, Not by Sight

a. Don’t get freaked out by what you see!
b. Don’t let what you see keep you from believing.
c. 2 Cor. 5:7 “For we walk by faith, not by sight!”
d. “Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.” - Augustine

4. Faith for Your Family

5. Faith to Overcome Discouragement

a. Sometimes we believe that someone can’t be healed or a situation cannot be changed because it has been like that for a long time.

6. ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE TO HIM WHO BELIEVES!

7. Faith When You “Can’t” Believe

a. The Father confessed his UNBELIEF.
b. He then cried to the Lord to help his unbelief.
c. He also cried out for grace to not allow his unbelief to keep his son from being healed/delivered!
d. We need to BELIEVE that Jesus is WILLING AND ABLE.

O for a faith that will not shrink,‘Tho pressed by every foe,That will not tremble on the brinkOf any earthly woe!
That will not murmur nor complainBeneath the chastening rod,But, in the hour of grief or pain,Will lean upon its God;
A faith that shines more bright and clearWhen tempests rage withoutThat when in danger knows no fear,In darkness feels no doubt.
- William H. Bathurst