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Elation Church. Everybody say week number six.
Week number six in our series that we've entitled
Faith Act. Everyone say Faith Act. Let's talk
about faith again. Hopefully these words will
be so much in your heart and in your mind and
in your soul that you'll never forget them. Okay.
Romans 10, 17. So then faith comes by hearing
and hearing by the word of God. So how do we
get faith? The faith that the Bible talks about,
the faith that pleases God, the faith that brings
us all those things that we've been talking about,
it begins with hearing the word of God, a divine
utterance, the spoken word of God, the written
word of God. And we've got to remember that sometimes
it's not just what's written in black and white.
Sometimes it's what the Holy Spirit speaks to
us. Because there are some things that I've done
that, you know, it wasn't written in black and
white. Why is everybody laughing? Did I say something
funny? God calling? God was calling? Sometimes
your phone rings and it's God and He wanted to
tell you something. Okay. Sometimes it's a still
small voice and not a telephone. You know, there's
no verse in the Bible that says, Dean, I want
you to move to Davenport, Florida and plant a
election church. But it's just as much a word
from God as any other word from God, right? Jeffrey
thinks so. He said amen. He moved down here too,
so he must have heard God too. So, there's no
Bible verse that tells me that... I need to marry
Gayna, right? But, well. Now, she did quote a
Bible verse to me. Before we started dating,
she looked at me one day and she said, you have
not because you ask not. Now, that was a Bible
verse. It was a Bible verse. I asked, and we'll
be married 40 years in August. What about that?
Anyway, so. Faith comes by hearing and hearing
by the Word of God, a divine utterance from God.
Faith does not come from wishing or hoping or
deciding in your own mind. Some people call that
faith. But the faith that the Bible talks about
is a faith that comes by hearing and hearing
by the Word of God. The first step of faith is
hearing. Everybody say hearing. That's the first
step. That's where it begins. You've got to hear.
A divine utterance from God. Hebrews 11 .1 goes
on to tell us that faith is the confidence that
what we hope for will actually happen. It gives
us assurance about the things we cannot see.
So we can't forget that it comes from hearing
and hearing by the Word of God, right? So after
we hear the Word of God, then faith is when we
have confidence. Everybody say confidence. It's
confidence in what we hope for will actually
happen. That God's going to keep His promises.
That we're going to see the goodness of God in
our lives. Come on, somebody. So, it's the hope
for what will actually happen. It gives us assurance.
I mean, we're already assured about it, even
though we don't see it. You know why? Because
God said it and we heard it. Right? So... I remind
you again, that word hope in the New Testament,
every time you see it, it's not talking about
a wish or a hope soul. It's talking about a confident
expectation. A confident expectation. You're
so confident, you can go ahead and get happy
about it. Hello? You can go ahead and get happy
about it because you're going to see the goodness
and the promises of God fulfilled in your life
based on His promise. See, that's faith. That's
faith. It's not just hearing it and just believing,
yeah, some kind of mental agreement. No, it's
like God said it, so it's going to happen. I'm
going to see it. I'm going to see the goodness
of God based on his promise to me. So the second
step, everybody say second step. Second step
of faith is wholeheartedly believing to the point
where you have confidence in God's word. Then
we come to James 2 .26. James tells us this,
by the Holy Spirit, of course, because this is
the Word of God. It's the Holy Spirit. It's God
-breathed. He says, faith without works is dead.
So, what does that tell us? Very clearly, that
tells us step number three, right? Step number
three in faith is acting in obedience. A corresponding
action. Everybody say corresponding action. To
what we've heard, to what we believe, what we
have confidence in, now there has to be a corresponding
action. For so much of my life, I just thought
it was hearing and believing. And I thought that's
where faith ended. That's why we've entitled
this Faith Act. Faith Act. Because there has
to be a corresponding action. See, faith, the
faith that the Bible talks about, it always responds,
it always says, it always gives, it always does,
it always acts. Whatever it is that God is telling
us to do, either by His Spirit or by His Word,
there has to be an action, there has to be an
obedience. And we've looked at so many stories
in the previous five weeks of this message, of
this series. Now, just real quick, Ephesians
2 .8. You need to know this verse. For by grace
you have been saved through faith. How many people
are thankful that they have been forgiven and
adopted into the family of God? No longer under
guilt, shame, and condemnation because you've
been taken out of being immersed in sin and you've
been moved into by the Holy Spirit to be immersed
in Christ. That's a good place. So, that all
happened by God's grace. You can't work for it.
You can't earn it. You can't deserve it. This
is God's work. God's grace. What is God's grace?
It's easy to just spew off, you know, grace's
unmerited favor. How many of you know that? Unmerited
favor. I'd heard that, I'd said that all my life,
but I've expanded that unmerited favor to kind
of connect it more, right? Sometimes we can get
little brief definitions and then they're about
as meaningless as the word that they were trying
to define as far as application goes, right?
So God's grace is God's acts. of kindness and
favor towards you, towards me. That's God's grace.
That's His grace. Because God has acted out of
His kindness and favor for you and for me. And
we're talking about salvation, right, in this
verse. We're saved by grace because God has provided
for it. He's purchased it. He's earned it. Jesus
came. And He's the one who went to the cross
to die for your sin and my sin. He's the one
who was resurrected, raised from the dead on
the third day and sent His Holy Spirit to be
inside of us. The same Spirit that raised Christ
from the dead is alive in us. Somebody ought
to smile or something. So that's God's work.
God's grace. But just because salvation is available,
It doesn't mean that every single person is going
to connect to it. See, this is easy to see when
it comes to salvation. We have to connect. Just
because Jesus died on the cross does not mean
that everybody's going to heaven. Doesn't mean
that everybody's forgiven. Does it not mean that
everybody's part of God's family? No. Because
we're saved by grace through faith. Everybody
say, through faith. See, it's God's grace, but
now we have to respond. Right? We have to respond.
So it's God's grace has provided it, and it's
our saving faith. Let's not forget what that
is. We've got to hear it. You hear the gospel.
You hear the good news. You hear about the love
of God. You hear that Jesus died for you, and
then you say, thank you, right? So you wholeheartedly
believe that. And then you have confidence that
Jesus died for my sin on the cross. But then
there has to be a corresponding action. The Bible
tells us with the heart we believe, but with
the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Hello? The Bible says if we confess our sin,
he's faithful and he's just and he'll forgive
us. Watch this. Cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
The Bible says if we call on the name of the
Lord or confess Jesus is Lord, as if we're saying
Jesus is my Lord, so there's an act of surrender.
So there has to be a corresponding action for
salvation to occur in your life. You got to hear.
You got to believe. You got to act. That means
you got to say. You got to surrender. That's
the corresponding action. It's more than just
hearing and believing. You have to act. Here's
the deal. Saving faith. Living faith. The Bible
says that we're supposed to live by faith. Walking
faith. The Bible tells us to walk by faith. That
means that the sphere of our existence is all
dealing with faith on an every day, every moment
basis. That's the way we live our lives. Victory
faith. If we want to have victory, we're going
to find it. We're going to connect to the victory
that God's grace has provided. We're going to
connect to it by our faith. God -pleasing faith?
Without faith, it's impossible to please God?
Hey, faith works the same no matter what kind
of faith it is. We have to get a hold of this.
It works the same. Because how many years of
our lives have we realized that saving faith
was hearing and believing and acting, but then
when it comes to everything else, oh, it's just,
it's a coin toss. Well, you know, life's just
going to turn out how life turns out. It's all
up to God. It's just all up to Him. That's a
good setup to just be beaten up and tossed around.
I don't want to preach Jeffrey's message next
week, but I'm going to go ahead and tell you
this. If the will of God always was accomplished
in this earth, why would Jesus ask us to pray
that His will be done on earth as it is in heaven?
God's will is always done in heaven, but if you
look around, you say, is this evil that just
took place? Is that God's will? Is this evil
God's will? Is God responsible for evil? Is God
responsible for... Death and destruction and
loss is God, the yin and the yang, and He's equal
evil and equal good. Wrong religion. God's a
good God. God's a good God. And our faith works
the same. God even said, it's my will that none
should perish, right? That all would come. That's
God's will. God wants everybody to be saved and
come to Him by faith and receive salvation. He
flat out tells us that in Scripture. It's not
my will that any should perish. How many of you
realize that there are going to be some people
who perish? He also said the way is narrow to
life and then there's a broad highway to destruction.
But it's not God's will that people get on that
broad highway to destruction. It's His will that
they take that narrow path to find Him. Some
of you are thinking way too hard. Faith is the
same. It's the same. It's more than mental agreement.
It's more than even saying that you believe.
It's more than that. Ultimately, our connection...
To the power and the ability of God. God is omnipotent.
Right? He's all -powerful. Everybody say, God
is all -powerful. He's omnipotent. And he's also
able. Everybody say, God is able. God's able.
So ultimately, our connection to his all -powerfulness
and his... No limit ability is when we act upon
what he has said. Because we can hear it and
believe it, but if we don't act, we won't see
it. That's why we're calling it faith acting.
Every time I look at that little baby holding
that 300 -pound dumbbell, he thinks he's about
to do something. Just like me and you. I just
think about it. What if some big strong guy walks
up behind him and puts his hand on the barbell
past him and the kid doesn't see it and then
he lifts it up? Could you imagine what that kid's
face would look like? See, God wants our hands
on the dumbbell. He's going to do the heavy work.
He's going to do the lifting. But by faith, we
can put our hands on it. We can put our hands
on His promise by faith. Here we go, 1 Kings.
Here's our story this week. 1 Kings 17, starting
verse 8. Then the Lord said to Elijah, let me
set it up. There's a famine. Everybody see a
famine? It's famine. It hadn't rained in a long
time. God had sent Elijah to a creek or a brook
or a small river, whatever you want to call it.
And Elijah had been like living by this creek,
creek, wherever you're from. I mean, we all say
it different ways. I just have to cover all the
bases. Stream. So Elijah had been living by this
creek, and so he had water during the time of
famine. He also had food. I mean, ravens, big
blackbirds, crows, whatever you want to call
them. I don't know where they were getting this
food, but they were bringing food to Elijah every
day. They'd just fly in with a blueberry muffin
or whatever. Picked it up from somewhere along
the way. Giving Elijah something to eat. Elijah
had something to drink, but then the famine got
so bad, the creek dried up. So that's where you
pick up our story. Then the Lord said to Elijah,
Go and live in the village of Zarephath, near
the city of Sidon. I have instructed a widow
there to feed you. So he went to Zarephath. As
he arrived at the gates of the village, he saw
a widow gathering sticks, and he asked her, Would
you please bring me a little cup of water? A
little water and a cup. Okay? Water is... Pretty
scarce during the famine. But I guess the well
in Zarephath was deep enough that the town or
the village had water. So he asked her for a
cup of water. That's no easy task. You know,
you've got to draw it out of the well. I mean,
it's not just hitting the faucet at the house
to put some water in it. As she went to go get
him some water, as she was going to get it, He
called to her, bring me a bite of bread too.
So while you're getting me a cup of water, bring
me a biscuit. Or a piece of loaf bread. Anybody
grow up having loaf bread sandwiches? Just two
pieces of loaf bread, nothing in it. Just a loaf
bread sandwich. When my dad and I would go fishing,
he would buy a loaf of bread and a pack of bologna.
No mayonnaise, no mustard, pack of bologna, loaf
of bread. So we ate dry bologna sandwiches when
we would go fishing. I enjoyed it, especially
when he brought out the Viena sausages. You might
say Vienna, but you might say Vienna where you're
from, but when they bring out the Viena sausages.
We're already up to a three -course meal, right?
Bread, bologna, Viena sausages. No sardines.
Nope. Nope. Not doing the sardines. I'll do the
pot of meat, but not the sardines. Okay, let's
get back to it. Hey, bring me a cup of water.
Bring me a biscuit. Verse 12, she replies, she
said, I swear by the Lord your God that I don't
have a single piece of bread in my house. And
I have only a handful of flour left in the jar
and a little cooking oil in the bottom of the
jug. Who's heard this story before? Here's what
she said. I was just gathering a few sticks to
cook this last meal, and then my son and I will
die. This is it. This is it. She had enough to
make two little biscuits, one for her, one for
her son. There was no other food. There's no
way to get food. It's during a time of famine.
They're just going to die of starvation. That
was her plan. That was her expectation. But Elijah
said to her, everybody say a prophet. Elijah's
a prophet. A prophet is simply someone who hears
God and then tells either one person, a group
of people, or a whole nation what God says. So
Elijah was a prophet of God. So Elijah says to
her, don't be afraid. Why would she be afraid?
He said, don't be afraid. He said, go ahead and
do just what you've said, but make a little bread
for me first. Everybody say first. Then use what's
left to prepare a meal for yourself and your
son. Now, wait a minute. If we really look at
this story, I mean, who would ask an impoverished,
destitute widow to give up her last meal during
a time of famine? What kind of audacity would
you have to have? What kind of preacher are you,
right? What kind of prophet are you to ask a
widow to make you some food first before she
makes her own food and food for her son? I mean...
If we were to talk to, you know, the 100 ,000
people around us, they'd be like, how dare you
ask a widow to do something like this? And if
we're all very honest, we might say, well, that's
pretty. If we didn't know the rest of the story,
I mean, if this was happening live. and this
widow was in your community and she had a son,
she had enough food for one meal, you would be
ticked off at this prophet. Come on. Don't get
a halo around your head just because you know
the rest of the story. It's like, how many people
who are not in church today would be offended?
If the preacher asked somebody who didn't have
hardly anything, just barely making it and couldn't
even make it, and the preacher asked him to give,
who would get offended? Everybody. Who asked
this lady? I'm going to ask you again. Who asked
her? Who asked her to make a... To make some
bread for the prophet first and then make for
her son and for herself. Who asked her? God asked
her. So if you don't get offended at somebody,
just get offended at him. God's the one who asked
her. Elijah said to her, don't be afraid. That's
the first thing he said. You know why? Because
fear focuses on what you don't have. You've got
to let this sink in. Fear focuses on what you
don't have. Fear focuses on your lack. Fear sees
subtraction. It always sees subtraction. It's
like, okay, if I give this prophet some food,
then me and my son are going to have to split
a biscuit instead of having our own biscuits.
Subtraction is going to take place. This was
so powerful to me, I'm going to say it again.
Hopefully, it'll be powerful to you. He said,
don't be afraid, because if she is afraid, she's
going to focus on what she doesn't have instead
of focusing on God's promise. Her focus is going
to be on her lack. It's going to be on subtraction.
Now here's the promise. For this is what the
Lord, the God of Israel, says. There will always,
everybody say always, there will always be flour
and olive oil left in your containers until the
time when the Lord sends rain and the crops grow
again. See, fear focuses on what you don't have.
Fear sees subtraction. Faith focuses on the promises
of God, and faith sees multiplication instead
of subtraction. And again, some of you are thinking
way too hard today. This is simple. Look to the
person beside you and say, it's simple. It's
simple. You don't have to worry. I'm not trying
to put any pressure on you. We've already received
the offering. I'm not receiving another one.
This is simple. Everybody say miracles. See,
when you think of a miracle, when I think of
a miracle, I think miracles take place. When
there's no other hope, there's no other way,
and God does something that we thought was impossible,
then we're like, this was a miracle. Put it in
perspective. We're believing God that one day
we're going to have a prime piece of real estate
out here on 27 with a 1 ,900 -seat auditorium
on it. 3 ,000 people coming to worship God together
every week. If somebody called me this afternoon
and gave Elisha Church 12 acres out here on Highway
27, how many of you would call that a miracle?
I would call it a miracle too. See, we think
it's a miracle when God does something that's
impossible to us. We don't even see a way. If
one acre costs $1 million, how in the world are
we going to have 12 acres? Are you with me? Here's
what we have to understand. If we're going to
be people of faith, if we're going to live by
faith and walk by faith and experience a victorious
Christian life by faith, we've got to realize
something. God has never considered anything
impossible. That deserved more than two little
weak amens, almost whispers. God has never...
considered anything impossible. These are the
words of Jesus. He said, with men, this is impossible.
But with God, all things are possible. All things
are possible. So we think it's some big deal.
And the more out of touch it is to us, Personally,
with our own effort, with our own resources,
the farther it gets away from what I can do,
I mean, it's like the miracles gets bigger. There's
no such thing as impossible with God. There's
no such thing as big blessings or little blessings.
He's God. the earth is already his and the fullness
of the earth is already his. The earth is the
Lord's and the fullness thereof, it's all God's.
If he spoke and created it, is there anything
impossible? Faith laughs. At impossibilities.
Faith laughs at impossibilities. Oh God, this
is just so big. I don't know if you're big enough
to do it or not. No, it's just... God, if you've
promised it... I'm just going to be happy about
it that you're going to keep your promise and
I'm going to see your goodness. Back to the story.
I'll step out of preaching and get back in the
story. So, she did. Everybody say she did. She
did as Elijah asked. So she heard what she was
supposed to do. She heard what God promised that
he was going to do. It was still up to her. Now
she acts on it. This is her faith act. It was
still up to her. She could have said, nope. I'm
not giving you my last biscuit. I think you're
a con man. You want my last biscuit? I'm not
giving you my last biscuit. Nope. If she would
have done that, it would have been her last biscuit.
She acted in faith as if the promise of God was
true before she saw the promise fulfilled. So
I'm just going to go ahead and tell you, just
act like what God said was true. Act like that
God can keep his promises. That's what she did.
So she did as Elijah said. Listen, and she and
Elijah and her son continued to eat for many
days. Now, for some reason, we limit our understanding
of what's taking place when we think of this
story. I mean, it's like, oh, so she had biscuits
for a week. No. Even if it rained this very day,
she wouldn't have biscuits in a week. I mean,
this went on for months. And then after it started
raining, you had to plant, right? So there was
a time for planting seed, and then there's a
time to wait on the seed, and then there's a
time for harvest. Here's the deal. The handful
of flour for two biscuits and a little bit of
oil that was going to just be enough for her
and her son is now turning into hundreds. Maybe
a thousand biscuits. Everybody say multiplication.
Verse 16, there was always enough flour and olive
oil left in the containers just as God had promised
through Elijah. Everybody say every day. Now
this wasn't a one -time deal. What if the widow
stopped making Elijah's biscuit first? What if
you went in a week or two or a month or two and
it's like, nah, I'll make ours first and if he
comes by later, I'll make his. What did God tell
her to do? Make it for Elijah first. If she would
have quit at any point during these months, it
would have stopped. So faith is not one and done.
It's not one and done. The Bible says we walk
by faith. We live by faith. We live our lives
from faith to faith. Faith is not, oh, I get
it. And I get it right this time, so I never
have to worry about it again. No, it's every
day. It's the scope of our existence is what
that word means, that we walk by faith. This
is the way we live. Her faith act continued every
day, and she received a miracle every day. Somebody
say every day. What a story. Look to the person
beside you and say, it's true, it's true. See,
the first time she obeyed, it wasn't like now
there's like 300 pound bags of flour and five
gallons of olive oil in her house. No, it was
every day, every day walking by faith. Did you
know that God has given you a very similar promise?
I mean, we look at this and we're like, wow.
I mean, did you listen to the verses I read right
before we received the offering? Did you listen
to them? I mean, I normally share these verses.
Malachi 3 .10. What does it say? It says, bring
all the tithes into the storehouse so there will
be enough food in my temple. That's what God
says. Everybody say, that's a faith act. Because
it's attached to a promise. It's attached to
a promise. If you do, says the Lord of heaven's
armies, I will open the windows of heaven for
you. I will pour out a blessing so great you
won't have enough room to take it in. And then
he says, try it. Put me to the test. I mean,
he could have said the same thing to the widow.
Make a cake first for Elijah and put me to the
test and see if I'm not going to make your handful
of flour be a handful of flour every time you
reach in the bag and your little bit of olive
oil be a little bit of olive oil every time you
pour it out. It'll always be there. There will
always be enough. Always. God says put him to
the test. And then he goes on. I don't normally
read this verse. Verse 11. Your crops will be
abundant. For I will guard them from insects
and disease. No pesticide here. Didn't have any
deep or chemicals or nothing like that, right?
God says he'll guard them. He'll keep the insects
from eating them up. He'll keep them from getting
some kind of fungus that's going to mess up and
destroy your... He says, your grapes will not
fall from the vine before they are ripe, says
the Lord of heaven's armies. How many of you
believe God keeps his promises? I'm just going
to put it like this. When you faith act to take
care of God's house, God will act to take care
of your house. It's all in the Bible. And then
you got like, wait a minute, Dan. You don't give
to get. Anybody ever heard that before? We're
coming in here and giving just to get something
from God. Heard that preached. But when we faith
act to take care of God's house, he will act
to take care of our houses. When we faith act
to take care of God's kingdom business in the
earth, he will act to take care of your business.
That's what he said. I didn't say it. Did I,
Ethan? Did I say it? No, I didn't say it. I said
this, but I didn't say the verses that we read
to support this, right? So, Hebrews 11, 6, talking
about faith. It's impossible to please God without
faith. Anyone who wants to come to Him must believe
that God exists and then listen, and that He
rewards those who sincerely seek Him. I'm here
today to tell you, you can have an expectation.
You can have an expectation to see God's goodness
in your life. Or you don't have to have an expectation.
But faith hears the word of God, believes the
word of God, has confidence in the word of God.
Right? And then acts on what God said. So if
you just act like it's true, if you act like
what God said was true, and you've got a divine
utterance, he's talking to you and he's saying
it, you just act like he's true. I think God
wants us to expect him to keep his promise. Is
it wrong to expect God to keep his promises?
Or is that faith? I know I'm making some of you
mad. It's okay. Or some of you are thinking about
this, boy, I don't know if I can unlearn that
much or not. Do you believe that God rewards
those who sincerely seek him? I mean, that's
straight out of the Bible. Is it okay to have
confidence that God is going to keep his promises?
If I do what he asked me to do, if I act in faith
based on what he told me to do, his divine utterance,
can I not expect him to keep his promise? It's
not like he owes me. Let's get that straight.
I don't have an attitude. You owe me, God. You
owe me. That's not what I'm talking about. That's
not faith. To think that God owes you something
is not faith. But we can expect to see His goodness.
That's a big old bullet. This is a .50 caliber
BMG round. I mean, it's a big old bullet. The
reason why I bought it is because I wanted to
make sure that it was big enough for you to see
it. You know, if I had a little .380 bullet out
of my little .380 pistol, my fingers are bigger
than the bullet, okay? My fingers are not bigger
than this bullet. This is a .50 caliber BMG round.
I want you to think about this. Inside this bullet
is the power. It's all in here. Right here. I
mean, it's not going to hurt anybody. If I drop
it, it's not going to go off. But all the power
it needs is right here in it. As a matter of
fact, there's so much powder in this bullet that...
There's power to advance this real heavy .50
caliber projectile at 3 ,000 feet per second.
It's 10 football fields in a second. And all
the power that it needs for that to happen is
already in here. The power... is in this bullet
to accomplish the purpose of this bullet. Are
you with me? It's all inside. It's all here.
But here's the deal. This bullet is not going
to do anything until it's put in a rifle and
somebody pulls a trigger. Look at the person
beside you and say, you got to pull the trigger.
I mean, it has the power to change things, right?
But the only way it's going to change anything
is if you pull the trigger. But the power's there
and it's ready and it's waiting on someone to
pull the trigger. Everybody say, just like that.
Just like that. God's promises are connected
to his unlimited power. The Bible says that God
looks over His Word. He watches over His Word
to perform it. And the promise of God, the divine
utterance to you or to me, that promise contains
the power to bring fulfillment to what God has
promised. Because God is able. He's all -powerful
and He is able. His word, his name, his power
is attached to his word. Just like there's power
in this bullet. God's power is attached to his
promises. But we're not going to see it released
unless we pull the trigger with our faith. To
hear his promise, to believe his promise. To
have confidence in His promise. That He's faithful.
Have confidence in His faithfulness. And in His
goodness. And in His almighty -ness. I don't
know if that's a word or not, but you know what
I'm saying. Right? But we pull the trigger with
our faith act. Pull the trigger with our faith
act. Some of what God instructs us to do, some
of those acts are in black and white in the Word
because there's a lot of promises that are, if
you do this, then I will do this. And then other
promises are from His still small voice as His
Holy Spirit speaks to us and we're led by Him.
We walk in the Spirit. We're sensitive to His
voice. We're following Him. We're looking to
Jesus to be Lord. Not just call him Lord, but
for him to be Lord. For us to follow him. To
be disciples. We pull the trigger with our faith
act. Let's pray together. God, thank you. Thank
you for your word. Thank you for your promises.
Thank you that you tell us that your promises
are yes and amen. So we look to you, and we have
faith in your faithfulness and in your goodness,
and we stand in expectation, confident expectation,
to see your goodness in our lives, your promises
fulfilled in our lives today. and every day.
Help us to be like this widow who will act in
faith. Help us to act in faith every day and
us to see you at work around us every day. Help
us to not categorize, you know, there's big things
that you do and little things that you do. No,
it's you. It's you. You're at work in our lives
and we recognize you and we see you and we have
confidence. As we walk with you and as we act
in faith that we will see your goodness. In Jesus'
name I pray. Amen. This online worship experience
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