“Wait” is not anyone’s favorite word! Yet we all too often find ourselves in the position to wait - waiting on God for an answer can be a place of power AN ACTION WORD!
Everyone has had trying days when it seems like everything that can go wrong, DOES! Today, we look at little spoken about story of just such circumstances and the pressures faced.
One thing everyone has in common is struggles... or storms! But as we see in today's message, one storm that we can physically experience can turn into three.
Faith… is a seed that must be planted… faith without works is dead… It is how the men and women of God that have walked before us gained approval and their stories testify and encourage us... It is how we become persuaded... convinced..
There are many words that mostly have a "religious" connotation and aren't explained well -- resulting in misconceptions and then loses the power to change our life!
Athletes train with weights to prepare for the main event, often with them around their feet so that on the day of the race, they can "cast them off" and run faster. We see today, that scripture encourages us to cast off weights and run our race!
We all have found ourselves in a place where we need help. Like the old TV commercial, "Help, I've fallen and I can't get up!" We see a parable told by Jesus of just this situation.
A couple of weeks ago, we looked at "CHANGE" and often we can look at others and think we know what is going on... presume that this is "rock bottom" or nowhere but up from here...