Growing Your Faith

This past Wednesday night we started our new class with Mark and myself co-teaching. We have never done that before, but I hope it will be beneficial to your study of God's word. We paused our study for a moment to discuss reaching out to new converts which I think is a good discussion, and I hope you are thinking about and looking for opportunities to do that. That caused us to miss out on the last part of our class.

The author talks about increasing our faith. That seems to be a question that many have: how do I increase my faith? There have been many answers given and many things tried to various degrees of success. Have you ever thought about what God says about it? Romans 10:17 says, "So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ." If the God of the universe says that is how our faith grows, who am I to question Him or teach something different? Even though that is what God says, it does not make it the popular choice of many.

May people find sitting down and studying the Bible boring. We have tv; who wants to read the Bible? We find it hard to understand. It can be. I find it hard to understand sometimes, and I have been doing this for a while. May I suggest starting in one of the gospels (not Revelation, lol). Find a good notepad to take notes, a good Bible dictionary to find the meaning of words, a good commentary to help when you have questions. Write those questions down and ask the elders. Take a chapter a day or set aside fifteen minutes until you get the hang of it. Find a quite place. Put your phone up. Pray before and after you study and ask for wisdom (James 1:5). Then look for opportunities to apply what you have read (James 1:22-25). Do you want your faith to grow? Get into the word of God, and it will help you grow, grow, grow.