Tag: 1 Corinthians

Faith Truly Is A Gift That Comes From God

Stock markets have fallen. Investments have been shaken. The world is not the same place it was just weeks ago.

man reading newspaper while sitting near table

But the Lord never changes. We can bank on that! The unwavering faithfulness of God is the basis of our own faith.

Bible open on chapter Job

Faith is not something we ourselves can generate. The Bible tells us that faith comes from hearing and hearing by the word of God. Faith is imparted into our hearts by the Holy Spirit.

Faith leaps over barriers that reasoning can’t get past. Faith always accomplishes God’s will.

Faith isn’t positive confession, although faith does speak and act. But sometimes it’s silent faith that perseveres through hardship, sickness or persecution. Faith is not a way to avoid troubles, but a way to go through troubles.

Faith truly is a gift that comes from God.

Jesus himself asked that when He returns will he find faith on the earth? Or will he find us positively confessing our own desires and expecting God to act because we have spoken?

Lord, increase our faith!

Romans 10:17
So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

1 Corinthians 12:9
to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by [a]the same Spirit

Luke 18:8
Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?”

Hebrews Ch11

  • Mark Saunders

The Message Of The Cross

What is love? What ever our answer, it probably links love to things we like. The problem is that our type of love is often self centered and subject to change.

God’s love on the other hand is different. He showed His love by offering us the life of His only begotten Son Jesus.

God’s intention in this was to give us an example of what love looks like and to show us the depth of His love for us.

The ultimate expression of love is found in the cross. This type of love is ready to loose it’s rights, and ready to keep no record of wrongs.

holding hands

Without the work of the cross in our own lives, the challenge of love is impossible. We need the example of Jesus continually in front of us… the message of the cross… and the Holy Spirit to help us live it.

1 Corinthians 1:18 (NKJV)
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (NKJV)
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

  • Mark Saunders

Tired Of Trying To Figure Everything Out?

We live in a time when knowledge has become a commodity.

So much knowledge but much less wisdom.

Apostle Paul speaks of a hidden wisdom which God had revealed by His Spirit to him. This made him ready to count as a loss all his knowledge and earthly wisdom. In comparison his revelation of Jesus Christ meant much more to him.

The answer to every single “issue of life” can be found in Jesus. Are you tired of trying to figure everything out? Then stop. Ask Jesus Christ to reveal himself to your heart.

1 Corinthians 2v2
For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

1 Corinthians 2v5
so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.

1 Corinthians 2v6
We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

  • Mark Saunders