Embracing Little Faith: Trusting God in Life's Storms
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"Little faith is mentioned four times by Jesus in the book of Matthew. It's mentioned once in the book of Luke by Jesus. So five times we have the Lord talking about little faith, and this is what I'm concentrating on tonight, our message, little faith. And so we see that Jesus, he points the finger at little faith when he says the thing five times, little faith, little faith. He's making a point. He exposes it, he rebukes it, he identifies it, he puts a finger on it, he sets it out, and he preaches concerning it." [00:09:56]
"Little faith and financial provision. Going to Matthew chapter 6 and 30, you can listen, you don't need to look, but you can follow if you so desire. Matthew chapter 6 verse 30, it says, wherefore if God so clothed the grass of the field, which today is and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you? Then what does he say? Oh ye of little faith. That's why I call this first point little faith and financial provision." [00:11:45]
"The context of this statement, oh you of little faith, is in the context of worrying about the basics of life, about your clothes, about the house over your head, about your food, about providing for all that you need. This is the context, and as he deals with these things, what does he say? Take no thought. He uses this term thought all through these verses in the context of you of little faith. What's wrong with you that you have little faith?" [00:13:27]
"Worry strangles faith. Do you hear me? Worrying about the basics of life and house and finance and home and money, and you know, we're getting those emails from New Zealand and Australia and Canada of good genuine believers who love the Lord. They're losing jobs and finance and business and home, and they're worrying. You know what? In this, we need to hear about little faith. It's not good to have little faith." [00:14:38]
"Little faith in the crisis of life. The impossibilities, the sudden troubles, sickness, persecution, when things happen you never seem coming and never imagine, and you've got no way to handle with them. Little faith in the crisis of life. You see, often crises show up what your faith looks like. You think you're strong in faith, you think you have great faith, you think you have remarkable faith. I can believe for anything, I can believe for God to heal the sick." [00:24:55]
"Matthew chapter 8 verse 26, and he, that is Jesus, said unto him, unto them, the disciples, they're in a boat, why are you so fearful? What? Oh ye of little faith. Why? Then he arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm instantly. What's the context of him saying ye of little faith? Talking to his disciples, the twelve, his chosen, his closest, his best, his preachers, his apostles." [00:26:16]
"Little faith in the crisis of life. And so the disciples are in a boat, Jesus is in their boat, thank God, but he's asleep in their boat. That's what the message here, asleep in Christ. The disciples have little faith because Christ is asleep. They're fully convinced, I mean, look at it, he is asleep, he's in their boat, but that's not a big issue to them. They are saying he is sleeping and there's a storm going on and we're actually going to die here." [00:28:32]
"Peter's fluctuating faith. If you think your faith as a Christian is the same in every situation all the time, year in, year out, you know nothing of this walk of faith. And looking at Peter in the same situation with the same Christ, with the same surroundings, same period of time, I see his faith fluctuate, change moment by moment. Do you know what it said just before this? Remember when he was in the boat, he said, Lord, if it be you." [00:34:32]
"Little faith does not hinder Christ from immediately acting. Some people in the church, you think when our faith is small or weak, Christ is inactive and you've tied his hands that he can never operate. And it's true, unbelief can hinder him from healing the sick. It's true, it's a fact of scripture. But listen, Peter is there saying, I've only got a little faith, but Master, save me. Do you think he denies him because it's a little faith and a puny faith and a small faith? No." [00:40:00]
"Mustard seed faith. Heaven, I've told you so far about Jesus saying, oh you of little faith. It's condemning, it's exposing, it's rebuking, it's negative, it's because of a lack of faith. Little faith is that you've killed it with anxiety, worrying about what about the food and the meals and the children. You've killed faith with your worrying, and then with these other testimonies, through your unbelief, through all of your talk, through forgetting, you've killed faith." [00:47:38]
"Mustard seed faith and moving mountains, but also moving sycamine trees. It is remarkable. Jesus says about the mustard seed in Matthew chapter 13, it is the least of all seeds, the very least, the smallest, the most unlikely, yet that faith can remove bitterness, unforgiveness from the heart. You won't be destroyed. Bad faith is a remarkable resilient thing. It can overcome. True faith is always challenged by mountains, bitterness, chance, impossibilities." [00:58:12]
"Faith is the key issue in forgiving others. Did you know that behind forgiving someone, faith is the issue, nothing else. And even if it's small, you can do it. A living faith, even if new or small, will forgive others. If someone does not forgive, cannot forgive, and it burns within them, and it begins to affect them, it's because their faith is an issue. It's lack of faith, smallness of a, they don't have big faith, they actually have very small faith because they can't release it." [01:01:07]
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