Faith
Key
points of the message: Relation between Father and us
Role Models of Faith
If we do not have faith than also Jesus calls us
If no faith what is the use of our soul
Blessing we get through faith
Isaiah
chapter 12-2 says God is my savior, I will trust and not be afraid, the Lord
gives me power & strength he is my savior.
Today
as a Christian we should ask ourselves,Our we in a position to say that God is
my savior. My dear friends today all of us will say Yes Lord is my savior , but
the real fact is that today we are not in a position to say that Lord is my
savior and for this we should blame ourselves as we all are lacking in faith, we are not
that close to our Lord and most important is that we have failed to maintain
the Father and son’s relation with Him and that is why we are not that close to
our Father which results in lack in faith and the final results of this is that
we are not in a position to say that Lord is my savior. We can only get more closer
to our Father only and only if we maintain the Father and son’s relation with
Him. For example: If I need any help from my worldly Father I will immediately
ask I will say papa I want this…. But when it comes to heavenly Father I will
wait until night because every night I do prayer and then only I will ask Him,
though my need is in the morning or any time of the day but then also I will
wait for night to come because every night I pray and that time I will ask help
to my Father. Today we all have made a timetable to speak with our heavenly
Father and that is why we have failed to maintain the Father and son’s
relation, the relation which we all our eligible for and which He gave to us.
I
would like to share one more example. If we have any problem we pray for
solution we ask our heavenly Father to show us the way out of our problem and the very next moment question comes in
our mind will my problem get resolved? I don’t understand why these question
comes in our mind when we have ask our Father at that very moment our problem
is resolved but to weak Faith we get doubts. Scriptures says be in this world
but different from the people, today we have to live in this world with more
and more strong faith in our Lord so that question like will my problem get
resolved will not come in our mind. Today I have selected few role models and
we all should try to be like them in faith so that all of us can proudly say
God is my savior.
Role
Model 1 Daniel Chp 3: In these chapter king Nebuchadnezzar ask everyone to
worship Gold & silver statue and he also said that if anyone fails to do so
will be put into a blazing furnance. I was thinking if I was in that palace
what would I have done in that situation and my answer was I would have bow
down to the gold statue because of fear of going into the blazing furnance
apart from knowing the fact that my Father in heaven is with me but then also I
would have bow down because of fear and dear friends fear comes when we lack in
faith but if we see Daniel and his 3 friends they refused to do so and later
they were thrown into a blazing furnace but what happens because of their
strong faith in the Lord our Savior Daniel and his friends were saved being in
the blazing furnace not a single wound on their bodies. In further chp we see
King Darius gives order not to praise or worship any other God but only him but
than also Daniel continues to worship heavenly Father 3 times a day
and the results of his continuous prayer was he was saved from the Lions
pits. Today our faith should be like Daniel when we trust our Father with our
whole heart we get heavenly blessings and all our problems our taken care by
him all we have to do is follow the way he has told us trust in him.
In
our life we actually should think of our Father before doing anything but we do
not we actually give preference to other people and we always give 2nd
position to our living God. For Eg: At our work place when a non Christian
friends offers me a food which is kept before any ideal, thou we know that we
should not eat that food we accept it
because we think what my friend will think but we never think what my Father
will think we give first preference to
our friend and second to our Lord. Dear
Role
Model 2 : Ruth – Ruth was a foreigner she was not aware of the living God but
because of her mother in law she trusted the God of Israel the God which she
was not aware of and Ruth was blessed because of her faith she got blessings in
Chp 2 11-12 and Chp 3 says Ruth marries Boaz she gets a life partner Dear
friends since birth we are Christian and we know Jesus since our childhood days
if He blessed Ruth who was not knowing
God of Israel but because of her faith she was blessed today we should be
eligible for more blessings because we know our Father since our birth
Role
Model 3 : In the gospel’s of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John Jesus blessed and healed
so many people because of their faith. A classic example of Faith shown in the
movie Ben Hur. Towards the end of the movie we see Ben Hur’s mother goes to
Jesus with a hope and Faith in her heart that Jesu will heal her but when she
arrives by that that time Jesus was crucified and later see because of her
strong faith she was healed through Jesus flowing blood.
Matthew
9 -27-29 Blind Man: We get to know about their faith in Jesus because Jesus ask
them do you believe that I can heal you and they said Yes. Today Jesus is
asking us “ Do you believe can I heal you “ and our answer should be “ Yes” an
Yes from the heart with Faith.
Luke
5 12-13 Dread skin disease man: We not only get to know about his faith but
also the way he requested Jesus He says “
Sir if you want to, you can make me clean!” Today when we pray we say Jesus I
want a car, Jesus I want a home, Jesus I want a good job but are we asking Jesus
if you wish and if you think it is righ time than only grant my wish . no we
don’t do that instead we command Jesus.
Luke
18 35-42 Blind man: Once again through this verse we not only get to know about
faith but again the kind of request made to Jesus the blind man say “ Son of
David have pity on me” Today we should ask Jesus to forgive our sins and should
be pity on us and that ask Jesus with faithful heart
Today
our faith should be like the blind man and like the dread skin disease man we
should prayer my Father please forgive my sins and pity me and this prayer
should be with faith and we will get healing.
Role
Model 4 Luke 19 1-10 Zacchaeus He was a rich man and tax collector and I am
sure he would have done lots of wrong things while collecting tax but I guess
he would have heard about Jesus and that is why after being short in height he
climbed the tree to see Jesus, I think he would have realized his sins and he
may have strong feeling that Jesus will
forgive his sins and that is why I assume he would have climbed the tree to see
Jesus, because of his faith in Jesus he got reply Hurry down Zacchaeus because
I must stay at your place today. And he realized his sins and returned all the
extra money. And Jesus blessed him Salvation has come to this house today
Sometime
when we run away from Jesus he comes to us again so that we should listen to
Him and we should follow him. Songs of Songs Chapter 5 8-6 but as per this verse reply comes I
cannot come now because I am naked If I take this situation in our present
youth yes the youth our naked , naked in drinking, dancing in pubs, engaged in sexually
excitement and that is the reason when Jesus comes to call us we reply I cannot
come now I am naked and by the time we wear our close and goes to Him by that time
He has left.
If
we lack in faith we should ask this question to ourselves Psalm 30-9, I die
without faith what will be the use of my soul to Him
Blessing
we get once we grow in faith : Psalm 91-11 God will put his angles in charge of
you to protect you wherever you go.
Amen
Prayer:
Heavenly Father, I thank you for fulfilling our needs until this hour of time.
Father today we ask you to give us the same faith and the same mindset which we
got to learn , give us the strong faith like Daniel so that we will not be
scared of any worldly attacks, give us the understanding mind like the blind
mans where we will not command you but we will request you not as per our wish
but your wish. Thank you father for this time . Through your son Jesus Christ
Amen.
