howgodtestsyourfadsith-160118012459.pptx

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1. HOW GOD TESTS YOUR FAITH Lessons On Living By Faith

2. Romans 15:4 “For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.”

3. James 1:2-4 “My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the TRYING OF YOUR FAITH worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”

4. GOD ALWAYS TESTS THOSE HE INTENDS TO USE In each person we see... An Opportunity (God gives a promise) An Obstacle or Opponent An Ordeal (A waiting period or test)

5. I. (NOAH) GOD MAY TEST YOUR FAITH WITH... AN IMPOSSIBLE TASK

6. Heb. 11:7 “By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.”

7. FAITH IS BELIEVING WHEN I DON’T SEE IT

8. II. (ABRAHAM) GOD MAY TEST YOUR FAITH WITH… A MAJOR CHANGE

9. Heb. 11:8 “By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went .”

10. II. (ABRAHAM) GOD MAY TEST YOUR FAITH WITH… A DELAYED PROMISE

11. Heb. 11:9-10 “By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob , the heirs with him of the same promise:For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.”

12. II. (ABRAHAM) GOD MAY TEST YOUR FAITH WITH… AN UNSOLVABLE PROBLEM

13. Heb. 11:11-12 “Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age , because she judged him faithful who had promised. Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.”

14. II. (ABRAHAM) GOD MAY TEST YOUR FAITH WITH… A SENSELESS TRAGEDY

15. Heb.11:17-18 “By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:”

16. FAITH IS OBEYING WHEN I DON’T UNDERSTAND IT

17. Heb. 11:19 “Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.”

18. III. (MOSES) GOD MAY TEST YOUR FAITH WITH... PROLONGED PAIN

19. Heb. 11:24-26 “By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God , than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.”

20. FAITH IS PERSISTING WHEN I DON’T FEEL LIKE IT

21. Heb. 11:27 “ By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.”