Ignite Your Faith!

1 Peter 1:6-7; Romans 10:17; Psalm 119:67; Isaiah 55:11; Psalm 27:13, 37:25; Hebrews 11:6; Ephesians 4:12-13, 1:20-22; Philippians 2:8-10; Psalm 138:8; 1 Chronicles 4:10

We are walking in today:  Ignite Your Faith!

1 Peter 1:6-7 6) Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:  7) That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.  When you ignite something, it means, catch on fire, arouse an emotion to ignite a fury, inflame, to set on fire.  This morning I want to address how our faith gets ignited, aroused, inflamed to a new fire and fury.  Anybody need his or her faith ignited?  I confess this is one of my most frequent prayers, God renew and rekindle my faith, not just ordinary daily faith or trust, but the gift of faith that expects life changing miracles to happen in my life and your lives, in our marriages, families, ministries, and businesses.  When I began to study, what I found in the Bible about igniting, inflaming, increasing my faith.  I know our minds go first to Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.  The point is: before you trust you have to listen!  That's the part I knew about and liked, because I love the Bible and the enrichment that comes from reading, studying, and most of all, putting those truths into action in my life, family, and work.  It's when I got into it more diligently, that I discovered three ways that God challenges, builds, and ignites the flame of faith in us.  Trials, read 1 Peter 1:6-7 again.  Hey, wait a minute Lord--here I am praying, desiring, seeking after a growing dynamic miracle-working faith, and You send along trails!!!  What's up, Lord?  Peter was bred and fed on this truth.  David in the book of Psalm 119:67 Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.  Is it difficult to receive injury from others without feeling resentment?  Is it hard to suffer wrongfully without becoming cynical and bitter?  Is it a problem to keep love in the heart through all unkindness, ingratitude, misunderstanding, injuries, abuses, and griefs?  God may permit great inequity to come to one because it is one of the ways agape love can grow and eternal rank be enhanced.  The trouble is trust!!!  Does God trust you?  Don't just count your blessings, but count your trials!!!!  Do you want your faith ignited so you can believe for miracles, answered prayers, breakthroughs in relationships, finances, sicknesses, and depressions?  Well, get ready for trials!!!!  A faith that hasn't been tested, Can't be trusted!!!!! Amen.
Fiveamprayer, God comes with a word this morning that it is time to ignite your faith!  No matter what--keep trusting in Him!!  God uses trials to test our faith.  Our going through not only shows if we trust Him, it also makes us stronger.  As Pastor Thomas taught, that faith is a muscle and like any other muscle it must be exercised to be strengthened.  We are tested to see if we will hold on to His word and not get off track.  Are you still standing on what God has promised you?  Are you walking this thing out by faith?  We know that we can not always trust what we see, but His word never fails!!  Hold to His word, it will accomplish all that He sent it to do!!  Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.  Not only does His word go out before us, He makes a way out of no way.  This is a faith walk--will you follow Him or the ways of the world?!  In our testing and trials are we looking to Jehovah Jireh?  Are we standing on the word, the Lord is my Shepherd?  He is the one who still shows up with blessings and peace in the midst of what we are going through.  He is sending us the latter rain.  Psalm 27:13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.  Psalm 37:25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.  Hold on to your faith, He will bring you out!!  Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.  Fiveamprayer, be found trusting and believing, holding on to His word.  The trying of our faith is to make us stronger!  Will you stand and trust Him?  God comes to revisit this faith walk that we are in this morning.  If we were not tested in trials or tribulations and did not lean to our own understanding, how can He perfect our faith?  Ephesians 4:12-13 12) For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: 13) Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.  Fiveamprayer, ignite your faith!!  Be so on fire for God that you look not anymore to the world and it's faulty solutions, we know that our all knowing God holds all of the answers!  We seek Him only and seek Him first!!  Ignite your faith--believing and trusting in His word!  The same word that He put above His own name.  Ephesians 1:20-22  20) Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,  21) Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:  22) And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church.  Philippians 2:8-10 8) And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. 9) Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: 10) That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;  Fiveamprayer, look at where you have placed your faith!  It is a sure thing, a guarantee for He is named above every name now and in the earth to come!  We know that the Word on which we stand is fastened in eternity with all power and all things are under His feet.  Thank You Lord for allowing us brand new mercies every morning!  Thank You for all that You are doing in our lives, drawing us closer to You!  We lay our blood bought lives at Your feet.  We are trusting You and walking in Your word.  No matter what comes us, we know that You are with us and will never forsake us!  We will keep on walking--no matter what it looks like.  Fiveamprayer, continue to stand on His promises.  Follow His word, not being concerned about which way to go next, follow in obedience to His word and trust that the everlasting word you are standing on will not fail!  He is already working it all out, all that concerns us.  Psalm 138:8 The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.  So we shall stand and stand some more on His word!  He is a keeper, a healer and provider--whatever you need, God has it all covered!  That is why we can say, it is well with my soul.  We lift up fiveamprayer, cover them and ignite their faith!  We lift up prayer requests those known and unknown for whatever they stand in the need of--bless them Lord like never before!  This is our month of giving thanks, so we thank You Lord and bless Your name!  Thank You for forgiving us and casting our sins away as far as the east is from the west.  Thank You Lord for teach us how to forgive others so that we can be forgiven and our prayers not hindered.  Because of what we know now, that trials build up our faith, we can say thank You for the trials that come to strengthen our faith!  Thank You Lord!  We can count it all joy, we are coming out better and stronger and wiser than we were before!

We seal this prayer in His precious blood:  1 Chronicles 4:10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.

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Stand on His word, fiveamprayer!!  We will continue to stand on the prayer of Jabez until the end of the year.  He will grant our every request, that is why we must make another one.  God has already granted what we have requested.  Read 1 Peter 1 for yourself today.  See how God builds out faith.   He has a way out, shout victory now, don't say why me. He is building our faith: stronger better and wiser--coming out as pure gold.  Lord, ignite our faith and set us on fire, for You Lord.  He is giving us a fresh new meaning of our faith being built by these trials.  Trust and hold on to His everlasting arms you can trust in.  Fiveamprayer, really know what faith is and see what God is doing when trials come, He is building our faith.  Visit us on facebook and have a blessed day!
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