Nov 09.99: Light For The Day - "Faith"

"Faith means being sure of the things we hope
for and knowing that something is real even if
we do not see it. ...
It's by faith we understand that the whole world
was made by God's command so what we see
was made by something that cannot be seen. ...

Without faith no one can please God. Anyone
who comes to God must believe that He is real
and that He rewards those who truly want to
find Him."
-- Hebrew 11:1,3,6 (NCV)

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Faith is the belief that God is real and that God
is good. ... It is a choice to believe that the one
who made it all hasn't left it all and that He still 
sends light into the shadows and responds to
gestures of faith. ...

Faith is the belief that God will do what is right.

God says that the more hopeless your
circumstances, the more likely your salvation. 
The greater you cares, the more genuine your
prayers. The darker the room, the greater the
need for light.

God's help is near and always available, but
it is only given to those who seek it.

-- Max Lucado

Prayer:
Father, help us renew our commitment to you,
to release everything and to be owned and
possessed by You. We long to submit
ourselves to You so that we might know the
holy freedom available to us only through
your grace.

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"The Good News shows how God makes people
right with himself -- That it begins and ends with
faith. As the scripture says, "But those who are
right with God will live by trusting in him."
-- Romans 1:17 (

"We have troubles all around us, but we are not
defeated. We do not know what to do, but we do
not give up the hope of living. We are
persecuted, but God does not leave us. 
We are hurt sometimes, but we are not
destroyed. ... So we do not give up. Our
physical body is becoming older and weaker,
but our spirit ininside us is made new every day. 
We have small troubles for a while now, but they
are helping us gain an eternal glory that is much
greater than the troubles. We set our eyes not
on what we see but on what we cannot see. ..."
-- 2Corinthians 4:8-9,16-18 (NCV)

"For whatever is born of God overcomes the
world; and this is the victory that overcomes
the world, our faith.
-- 1 John 5:4 (RSV)