Pastor Bell's Words To Live By

Without faith it is impossible to please God (Hebrews 11:6). This is what the writer of Hebrews tells us, so how do we develop and use our faith? The shield of faith is there to protect us and to allow us to know the powerful rewards of trusting the words of the Lord. Faith is trusting without being able to see physically what you are hoping from. Without hope we will certainly die prematurely, for without hope we become miserable, cantankerous and difficult to live with. And I believe that these are some of the reasons why the risen Jesus prefaced his encounter with his disciples by speaking peace to them [see the Gospels for evidence of this]. Once you are clam you are able to think clearly, reflect logically, and then do things that were a long way of your radar when you were living in anxiety.  Faith in Jesus will allow you to move mountains, kill giants and take territories which were previously un-scalable. Today your faith will rise as you put your trust in the Lord. The psalmist reminds us that some of us trust in horses and some in chariots but we [who are followers of Jesus] put our trust in the name of the Lord our God (Psalm 20:7). That is faith, putting your trust in someone that is invisible knowing full well that you will see the tangible effect of his hand. Read Psalm 20 and meditate on verse 7.