Scripture: Hebrews 11:8-19

+ Faith alone secures ouracceptance with God.

Genesis 15:6

Ephesians 2:8–9

Romans 4:1–5

+ Faith alone demands humilitybefore God and others.

+ Faith obeys God's word withouthaving all the details or all the answers.

James 2:21–24

+ Faith is future oriented

"There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark rocky peak high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.” – JRRTolkien, The Return of the King.

+ Faith believes God more thancircumstances

+ Faith withholds nothing fromGod, no matter how precious