By Faith Day 1

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Good morning and Welcome.

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This is pastor Lucy Paynter with your daily insights.

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And this is a new month we thank our God for the Grace and the daily 

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insights that we have continued to share empowering each other

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to continue serving the purposes of God.

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In our generation new month, we will be focusing on the topic

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faith.

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And so we are going to learn more on , faith what it means to

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walk by faith.

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And we are going to learn about people who walked by faith and

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the work that is brought about by faith.

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The Bible says in the book of Hebrews, chapter 11, verse one to

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10 faith shows the reality of what we hope for it is the evidence of

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things we cannot see through their faith the people in the days of

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old and a good reputation.

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It's important for us to note there that through their faith, the

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people in the days of old, they earned a good reputation.

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They got a good reputation they got in the Bible.

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It was recorded of their acts of their deeds.

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We know about them because of their faith.

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And the Bible continues to say that by faith, we understand that

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the entire universe was formed at God's command.

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We understand that we were not there to see it.

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Or we understand by faith that what we now see did not come

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from anything that can be seen.

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And it was by faith that Abel brought a more acceptable offering

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to God than caine did so we see that faith was applied even in

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the giving.

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And we.

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I saw this when we were talking about gratitude.

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We did a recap on gratitude last week, and we saw that in

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gratitude, Abel was able to give a thanksgiving giving offering that was

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more acceptable than cain

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Abel's offering gave evidence that he was a righteous man.

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And God showed his approval of his gift.

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Although Abel is long dead, he still speaks to us by his example of

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faith.

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And it was by faith that Enoch was taken up to heaven without

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dying.

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He disappeared because God took him for before he was taken

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up.

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He was known as a person who pleased God a wonderful

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example.

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He was known as a person who pleased God.

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And the Bible says in verse six, anyone who wants to come to him

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must believe lives that God exists and that he rewards those who

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sincerely seek him.

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And this is the Foundation.

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Anybody you want to seek, the Lord?

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You want to pray.

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You want to have fellowship in the word with him.

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You have to have faith that he exists.

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You cannot.

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Say there is no God, and yet want to seek him.

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The first step is to believe by faith that he exists.

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And then you believe that he rewards those who sincerely seek

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him, meaning that even these minutes that you spare every

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morning to listen to this daily insight.

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They are not wasted time.

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The minutes you spare to hear the word to pray.

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They are not wasted time.

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Every time you dedicate to seek him, he rewards those who

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sincerely seek him.

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The Bible continues to say that it was by faith that Noah built a

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large boat to save his family from the flood.

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You know that is amazing.

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Before that there were no boats.

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He obeyed God who warned him about things that had never

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happened before, that we are told that it had never rained

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before.

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So he was telling people and warning people about something

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that they have never seen before.

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But he obeyed by faith.

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Noah condemned the rest of the world and he received the

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righteousness that comes by faith.

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And it was by faith at Abraham obeyed when God called him to

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leave home and go to another land that God would give him as

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his inheritance.

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And I want to dwell so much on Abraham.

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Today is Monday.

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It's a first day when we start this topic, I'm calling it by faith.

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And we know that Abraham is called the father of faith.

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And so I am going to dwell so much on Abraham as we talk about

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this topic of by faith.

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So by faith, he left his home to go to another land that God would

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give him as his inheritance.

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And he went without knowing where he was going.

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You know, we are living in the days where we want to know the

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end.

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Logic, dictates.

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I need to know.

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Point a to point.

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I cannot.

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Just leave a without knowing.

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Where is my destination?

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I need to put in the destination in my GPS.

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We cannot.

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Just stand up and start going.

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But by faith, Abraham, he journeyed on because the Lord told

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him, arise, leave your home and go to another land that I will give

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you to our inheritance.

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And he rose up.

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He went without knowing where he was going.

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And the Bible says.

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And even when he reached the land, God promised him he lived

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there by faith.

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He lived there by faith.

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He was sustained by faith, for he was like a foreigner living in the

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tent.

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He lived there by faith.

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So we're gonna look and see, how did Abraham live by faith?

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How do we do this?

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How do we walk by faith?

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One of the things that is going to help us to walk by.

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Faith is to have faith in the promises.

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Those promises we take that step, the promises that we cannot

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see, because most of the promises are not tangible.

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There are things that you can not touch, the things that you

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cannot be able to see.

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But we only have to believe him.

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That is a God who keeps the promises that he has promised.

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This is what was keeping Abraham going.

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He knew, my God, the one I'm following his promise keeper.

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He has told me that he's gonna give me a land.

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And so he arose and he followed.

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And the same case applies to us we have to take that first step by

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faith and number two we need to consider the limitation of

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walking by sight you know walking by sight is going to limit us

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every time we put logic into the perspective faith disappears you

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know every time we want to imagine what life is you know if

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Abraham could start trying to ideologically and see by sight he

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would not have been able to walk by faith and that is the same

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case we are going to apply this how do we walk by faith?

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We need to consider the limitation of walking by sight because

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every time we walk by sight  there is a limitation we cannot be able

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to experience the things that can only be experienced when we

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walk by faith so we have to walk by faith and not by sight and

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number three we have to let go let go of our fears let go of our

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fears of most of the things that hold us back when we talk about

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walking by faith or living by faith is fear now as we continue to

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dive deeper into this topic and in the life of Abraham we are

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going to see that sometimes he would have those limitations he

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would be afraid and we are also human sometimes we are afraid

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but if we are going to walk by faith we have to let go of our fear

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because sometimes the world can be a frightening place but we

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have to let go of fear because fear contradicts with faith we

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cannot have faith on one hand and fear on the other hand we

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have to let go of fear in the name of Jesus this is by faith day one

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continue joining us every day as we dive deeper into this topic by

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faith walking by faith by faith praying by faith and every day by

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faith in Jesus name this is pastor Lucy Paynter with your daily

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insight Shalom.