Creative Worship: By Faith Alone...

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Today I am sharing a page I recently did after a good friend of mine delivered a devotion for our women's ministry. Sometimes a message can hit you so strongly that it continues to resonate with you the rest of your day, and sometimes longer. Lately the topic of Faith has been strongly on my heart, so I created this page I am sharing with all of you today.

Genesis 15:4-6

Then the word of the Lord came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but a son who is your own flesh and blood will be your heir.” He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him,

“So shall your offspring be.”

"Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for. By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. There are so many examples of true faith throughout the bible. People who couldn't physically see the promises of God, but they had confidence in their God to deliver what he promised them.

By faith Abel brought God a better offering than Cain did. By faith he was commended as righteous, when God spoke well of his offerings. And by faith Abel still speaks, even though he is dead. By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God. And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that is in keeping with faith.

By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God. And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she considered him faithful who had made the promise. And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore. All these people were still living by faith when they died. By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, even though God had said to him, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.” Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead, and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death. By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in regard to their future.

In all these instances: Able, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Jacob, Joseph, Moses and the parting of the Red Sea, Rahab, Gideon, Sampson, David, and there are just too many to name, each of them had faith in God and what they could not physically see! We need to remember to put out faith in God and God alone, and he will deliver the things he has promised us.

"Faith is confidence in what we hope for, and assurance in what we do not see!"

xoxo,

Stephanie Gammon