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The Place Where Faith Happens! Mark 9:14-29. It is so good to be back among my church family, the body of Christ!. The storms of life help uncover the fragility in the issues of life and faith!.
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The Place Where Faith Happens! Mark 9:14-29
It is so good to be back among my church family, the body of Christ!
The storms of life help uncover the fragility in the issues of life and faith!
“Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.” Susan Taylor
“My brothers and sisters, when you have many kinds of troubles, you should be full of joy, because you know that these troubles test your…
…faith, and this will give you patience. Let your patience show itself perfectly in what you do. Then you will be perfect and complete and will…
In Mark's Gospel we have an example of this truth... Jesus & His disciples have just returned from the Transfiguration.
In Mark's Gospel we have an example of this truth... They encounter a man who has a son who has struggled from birth with a mute spirit.
In Mark's Gospel we have an example of this truth... The disciples have not been able to cast out this spirit.
In Mark's Gospel we have an example of this truth... The father appeals to Jesus.
Two Great Treasures! A Humble Spirit!
A Humble Spirit! Jesus Can Only Work In A Broken, Humble, Contrite Heart!
A Humble Spirit! “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!” Mark 9:24b
A Humble Spirit! “True faith is always aware how small and inadequate it is. The father becomes a believer not when he…
A Humble Spirit! …amasses a sufficient quantum of faith but when he risks everything on what little faith he has, when he yields…
A Humble Spirit! …his insufficiency to the true sufficiency of Jesus...True faith is unconditional openness to God, a decision in…
A Humble Spirit! …the face of all to the contrary that Jesus is able.” James Edwards
Two Great Treasures! A Place of Testing!
A Place of Testing! The Beginning of a Miracle is Not Usually Very Pretty!
A Place of Testing! “When Jesus saw that the people came running together, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it…
A Place of Testing! ‘Deaf and dumb spirit, I command you, come out of him and enter him no more!’ Then the spirit cried out, convulsed…
A Place of Testing! …him greatly, and came out of him. And he became as one dead, so that many said, ‘He is dead.’ But Jesus took…
A Place of Testing! …him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose.” Mark 9:25-27
A Place of Testing! Our greatest moments of Faith will be in the midst of the storm, when all seems lost, when others have…
A Place of Testing! …lost all hope, when there seems to be no answer, this is when Christ does His best work within us!
Jesus says “This kind can come out by nothing but prayer and fasting.”
Jesus gives us a reason to embrace our moments of Testing & Trial with humility…
…and spiritual disciplines so He can do GREAT THINGS within us!