Every month, a brief summary of a Bible Study session by Pastor Johnson will be featured. To learn and enjoy an entire session, please come to our Bible Study sessions held every Wednesday night at 7:00 p.m. You’ll be glad you did!
“Unshakable Faith” – Hebrews 11:1-2, 6; James 1:2, 6
Dr. Brodie I. Johnson, Pastor, Cornerstone Institutional Baptist Church
There are so many things that can destroy your faith: your health, waiting on God, depression, but you must grow to a point in your life that you won’t allow your faith to be shaken, because your faith is your ONLY conduit to get you to the other side. You can’t please God if you do not have faith.
11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Our definition of faith, of things hope for, means you can’t see it, but you certainly have to hope for it. You have to trust him to bring you through. Put your trust in a SURE foundation. It will not always be clear how things will work out; the sequence of how God is going to do it. God does not intend for you to see everything because you wouldn’t trust in him and you would decide that you didn’t have a need for him. He wants you to put your faith in him and not in yourself!
Stop letting folks dampen your faith. 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. You have to let the devil know that you mean business! You have to tell the devil that you are willing to serve and please God. Ask yourself, “Am I trying to please God or other folks?” Learn that you can’t make everybody happy. If you seek God, he will reward you. He knows how to show up when you least expect him.
The book of James deals a lot with faith. Faith without works cannot be called faith. Dead faith is no faith at all. 1:2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations. We must get happy when trials come. GROWTH! “Divers temptations” means that the devil will come after you from different directions; the temptations will just keep on coming. He will attack you even after you leave an anointed service. But – you cannot allow your faith to be shaken. One of the hardest things for Christians to overcome is temptation, which doesn’t always have something to do with a man and a woman.
1:6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. When we wait on God, he prevents us from getting into some stuff somewhere down the road. Remember, don’t ask and then waiver. Also, don’t just be a “Sunday Christian”. You have to have faith all week long and when you do, your faith will then become “unshakeable”!
In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. I Thessalonians 5:18