DAILY TRUTH - Living From Faith
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Summary
What if God intended in his sovereignty to pour out blessing this year on our church? What if He intended it in our family, in our homes, and in our communities? Would we be prepared for that blessing?
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All right, listen guys, I get it. Many of you are unable to financially support this ministry
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because you're spending your cash and your lives on raising young children in the fear and
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admonition of the Lord. Praise God for you and that endeavor. However, algorithms are a thing.
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Shadow banning, sadly, is a thing. And one major way that you can help to expand the reach and
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effectiveness of this ministry that doesn't cost you a dime is by spending just a few moments
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but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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Faith is what we are called to set an example in
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speech conduct love and faith as we set an example in faith it means that we must be
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ruthless towards our own sin including the sin of fear and this is why we tolerate fear or i
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should better say this is how we often seek to justify the sin of fear we place fear under the
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thin veil of wisdom see both fear and wisdom are future oriented whereas something like despair
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it could be that you are despairing even of life because you see no light at the end of the tunnel
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you're looking toward the future and say that there's no hope to be found but very often
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things like depression things like despair it's this it's this overwhelming dissatisfaction with
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the present but anxiety is always oriented toward the future anxiety is this constant incessant
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sense of dread and impending doom about what might happen tomorrow Charles Spurgeon once said
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that anxiety does not rid tomorrow of its trouble but it rids today of its joy
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now here's what wisdom does right the proverbs look to the ant thou sluggard and be wise
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now what does the ant do the ant prepares for the future there is a sense in which preparation for
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the future is wise and there is a sense in which storing up for the future without faith is fear
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there is a fine line this is what i'm saying there's a fine line between wisdom and fear
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and we must be ruthless with ourselves how often have i in my own personal life in my family as a
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leader in my home as a leader in this church how often have i put something underneath the
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category of wisdom that was really rooted in fear my family my wife my daughters this church
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you brothers and sisters need men like myself and others to lead from faith and not fear you know
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what faith does faith is future-oriented also see fear prepares for the worst and it believes that
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the worst will come about that's what fear does fear is future-oriented but it's future-oriented
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in in the worst case possible scenario it assumes suffering it assumes devastation it assumes
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destruction faith also looks forward with wisdom and it assumes victory it assumes success and i'm
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not talking about prosperity gospel 58 million dollar jet plane i'm talking about christ is
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returning we know the end of the story we win now we win often through suffering but we win
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see fear will cause leaders to prepare their families and their churches and their communities
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for a worst case scenario but i was just thinking about this and just praying about this
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over the last few weeks what if god in his sovereignty chose to pour out blessing would
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we be prepared for that see faith prepares in wisdom for the worst to a point but then it
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it stops and it rests and it trusts and it doesn't prepare for the worst at the cost of preparing for
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the best what if God intended in his sovereignty to pour out blessing this year on our church
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what if God intended brothers and sisters this year in 2020 to pour out something in your family
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in your marriage with your children with with your vocation that was good would you be prepared for
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that or have you only been a slave to incessant worry about what if something bad takes place
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that is a false view of your heavenly father lead from faith live from faith not fear set an example
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for the brothers in faith are we setting an example for faith or are we leading in such a way
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and living in such a way and and have a theology and a perspective of God in such a way that when
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people look at our lives they just you know how some things are taught and some things are caught
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i know that's kind of a cliche and it is a cliche but there's some truth to it there are people
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catching an infectious disease from us that the more time they spend around us and they see the
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way we live and they see the way we lead they begin to just assume bad things are always going to
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happen or or do they actually grow in faith and assume that it might be god's intention for things
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to flourish, for things to grow, for good things and blessing to also happen. Thanks so much for
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listening. But real quick, before you go, do us a small favor, take a moment and leave us a five
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