{"id":2300,"date":"2020-07-12T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shop.honestreflections.net\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2020-06-29T06:22:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T11:22:01","slug":"who-helps-you-build-your-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2020\/07\/12\/who-helps-you-build-your-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO HELPS YOU BUILD YOUR FAITH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cFirst, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being reported all over the world.\u201d (Romans 1:8 NIV)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other people\u2019s faith helps build our faith.  When we hear the stories of what people do because of their faith, it strengthens us.  What seems trivial to us is a mountain to someone else.  Jesus set an example for us with His actions.  He did things we can do.  When we do the things Jesus did, it affects others like Jesus’ actions affect us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My pastor has a faith like few I know.  I have followed his faith journey for years.  I\u2019ve watched as he\u2019s overcome adversity.  I\u2019ve seen his persistent faith in the midst of tragedy.  Each week when we have our prayer meeting, his words amaze me.  He\u2019s followed Jesus for over 60 years.  In the midst of tragedies, he relies on God\u2019s grace.  Because of him, my faith has deepened.  His belief strengthens my belief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other people\u2019s faith helps build our faith.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faith heroes are something we all need.  People who have gone before us, trusting Jesus.  People whose faith has carried them through the most difficult of times.  Even people who have gone to heaven are still with us, still inspiring us.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My father lost his first wife to cancer.  He lost two children, one still born, the other at just 14 months old.  He had twin daughters, Linda woke up fine in the morning, developed a fever and was gone by the next morning, pneumonia.  He froze his feet working the winter after I was born.  This event led to gangrene, which led to the amputation of his leg.  Yet through all of that his faith persevered.  He never gave up.  His faith didn\u2019t waver.  He never stopped trusting Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His faith grew because of his father\u2019s.  My older brothers, who knew my grandfather better than I, told me of his faith.  My grandfather read the Bible every night.  He always read cover to cover.  When he finished, he would start again from the beginning.  I\u2019ve developed the same habit.  I think of my grandfather often as I read through the Bible each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were made for fellowship with other believers.  We need each other to encourage and grow our faith.  God designed us to work together as one body:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.\u201d (<\/em>1 Corinthians 12:12 ESV<\/em><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we live our lives by faith, we encourage others.  Lives lived by faith will impact others  far greater than imagined.  Their faith filled lives will resonate long after they\u2019ve left this earth, affecting generations to come.  Other people\u2019s faith helps build our faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Question of the Day:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How can your faith filled life impact someone else’s today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further Reading:<\/strong> 1 Chronicles 12:19-14:17 NIV<\/a>, Romans 1:1-17 NIV<\/a>,  Psalm 9:13-20 NIV<\/a>, Proverbs 19:4-5 NIV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cFirst, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being reported all over the world.\u201d (Romans 1:8 NIV) Other people\u2019s faith helps build our faith.  When we hear the stories of what people do because of their faith, it strengthens us.  What seems trivial to us is a… Continue reading WHO HELPS YOU BUILD YOUR FAITH<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2301,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions\/2301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}